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Boston's State House delegation on Wednesday voted in state Rep. Aaron Michlewitz as chair. The North End Democrat, who was unopposed in his bid, also serves as vice chairman of the House side of the Joint Committee on Transportation. Michlewitz, former... Read more
The preliminary special election to replace former City Councillor Chuck Turner draws near, and that means things are heating up. (Though nobody’s falsely called anybody a crack addict yet.) Cornell Mills, one of the seven candidates running for the... Read more
Top Ten Food Stamp Stores in Dorchester-Mattapan 2010 This article was reported by Rachel Zarrell, Gal Tziperman Lotan, and Stephen Kurkjian, and written by Zarrell. The last year has been a difficult one for Matthew St. Andrews. In March, he was let go... Read more
This week’s Reporter’s Notebook takes a brief look at the first candidate to jump into the City Council District 3 race, former City Council At-Large candidate Doug Bennett, who is now living in Adams Village. And just after we went to press early Tuesday... Read more
City Councillor At-Large Felix Arroyo is pushing for Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint a neighborhood advocate to the city’s powerful Licensing Board. The three-member board, which largely grants and regulates alcohol and food licenses for restaurants and... Read more
Gov. Deval Patrick may tend to stay out of contested primaries, but his wife, not so much. First Lady Diane Patrick is headlining District 7 candidate Tito Jackson's campaign kick-off Monday night. The kick-off starts at 7 p.m. at Hibernian Hall in... Read more
House Speaker Robert DeLeo on Friday named state Rep. Marty Walsh (D-Dorchester) to the top of the House Ethics Committee. Walsh, a local union leader who once strongly backed DeLeo's rival for the speakership, served as vice chair of the Joint Committee... Read more
The effort to improve the quality of life in Savin Hill is taking a formalized step with the creation of a new committee focused on development along the neighborhood’s business district. The Savin Hill Village Business Development Committee, formed as a... Read more
Our friends at BNN-TV's Neighborhood Network News filed this report yesterday on a new effort to help residents in some of the city's oldest housing stock save money of energy costs.
U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston) has been tapped as the ranking Democrat on an oversight committee. Lynch's office on Friday announced that U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,... Read more

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