Meet Your Councillor: Tanairi Garcia, Who Farmed Off the Grid in Puerto Rico
She left Chelsea at 26 to live off the grid on a farm in Puerto Rico. A hurricane took her greenhouse, earthquakes…
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Meet Your Councillor: Deron Hines, Who Beat a Vega and Then Won 6-5
He unseated the daughter of the most powerful figure in Chelsea, and six months later won the vote that rewrote the city's…
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Meet Your Councillor: Todd Taylor, the Republican Who Says He Leaves Politics at the Door
He is a Republican state committeeman who ran for state representative, and he says national politics have no place in City Hall.…
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Meet Your Councillor: Kelly Garcia, Who Says Chelsea’s Schools Are in the Bottom 10 Per Cent
She grew up poor in Chelsea, one of five children, and was told her mother's accent meant college was not for her.…
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Meet Your Councillor: Leo Robinson, the Longest Memory on the Council
Chelsea High class of 1968, Army during Vietnam, three city manager searches, thirteen years coaching girls' basketball. He wrote the housing rule,…
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Meet Your Councillor: Norieliz DeJesus, Who Started Organizing at 14
She started working for Gladys Vega at fourteen and has been organizing ever since. She ran the council for two years, and…
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Meet Your Councillor: Roberto Jimenez-Rivera, Council President
He got more votes than anyone else on the 2025 ballot, and his colleagues made him council president in January. He also…
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Meet Our Councillors: A Guide to the 11 People Who Run Chelsea
Chelsea has 11 city councillors: three at-large and one for each of eight districts. Four of the eight district seats drew no…
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Two Orders on the Table for Chelsea’s Older Residents
A Home Rule Petition would exempt income-eligible senior homeowners from property tax entirely. A second order asks for an anti-displacement plan for…
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The Council Discussed an Open Meeting Complaint Behind Closed Doors
On July 8 the Sub-Committee on Conference went into executive session to discuss an Open Meeting Law complaint and never reconvened. The…
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