The Globe’s Joan Vennochi has an excellent column on Josh Kraft’s pluses and minuses as a new mayoral candidate. I liked this graf from Joan’s piece regarding Mayor Wu:

“But Kraft also knows that Wu’s biggest weakness is not policy. It’s the perception of how she goes about implementing it. As he said in his speech, “We have a leader that just does not listen. Too often, Mayor Wu acts as if she alone has all the answers. Whether it’s housing, schools, neighborhood services, or bike lanes, instead of listening to community voices … too often she’s tuning them out.”

Wu’s a true-believer progressive, that’s for sure. She’s not a flexible, pragmatic progressive like Gov Maura Healey. That’s one of my biggest gripes about the mayor. …