She stood up for the city and refused to cower in the face of threats and smears,” one of more than 1,700 respondents said. The post Mayor Michelle Wu represented Boston well at the ‘sanctuary cities’ congressional hearing,

Mayor Michelle Wu is many things: Savvy politician, smart Harvard-trained lawyer, devoted mother. But none of those words really do her justice. The description I keep coming back to is the Chinese phrase: Hen li hai.

The much-hyped hearing, Wu’s first time on the national stage, turned out not to be so much of a show but more of a legal grilling of the mayor and three other city mayors aimed at getting them to