Mayor Katjana Ballantyne stands in opposition to all forms of hate, including xenophobia, antisemitism, and Islamophobia, as she always has done. She has always been against all war. As the child of parents who struggled to survive World War Two, she was raised with the awareness of their loss of family and friends, their forced displacement, their starvation, and their lost homes. She understands. She has believed that when anyone is abused for their religion, race, or ethnicity, then we all suffer.

While many cities are scaling back, I’ve been able to stay the course and choose progress thanks to careful planning and fiscal strategy.

Mayor Ballantyne has made real progress combating the city's rat problem. She's combined expanded traditional methods with innovative technologies like electric traps and fertility control. She has made Somerville a leader in rat control, and our neighbors in Boston and Cambridge are looking to her for help.

The entire WHCIS community is now together in their interim home in Edgerly Education Center, and Mayor Ballantyne has focused her efforts on opening an entirely new facility in 2031 (That’s only six years away, when a typical school building project takes ten years or more).

Somerville Mayor Katjana Ballantyne is actively implementing recommendations from the Public Safety for All initiative's task forces and working groups, focusing on creating a community-directed approach to public safety