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New poll results show 64 percent of likely Boston voters want a citywide referendum on whether to allow a casino at Suffolk Downs in East Boston, and voters deadlocked over allowing the city casino.

The ... Read more.

On a hill in Jamaica Plain, behind a row of homes on Peter Parley Road that share a backyard, the mayoral hopefuls weaved their way through the crowd of voters at the Ward 11 Democratic Committee’s picnic.

Grinning ... Read more.

State Rep. Byron Rushing, who represents the South End, Roxbury and parts of Back Bay, was elected to the House in 1982, well before the city started to brace itself for an open mayoral race. The assistant majority leader ... Read more.

Voters won’t be going to the polls today just to pick the finalists in the race to succeed Mayor Thomas Menino. Nineteen Bostonians will be on the at-large ballot, the result of two city councillors, John Connolly and ... Read more.

Voters’ phones were ringing off the hook this weekend, as some candidates and independent outfits sought to get a reading of the race a week and a half before people go to the polls.

And at least three people ... Read more.

They may not be buying princess backpacks or safety scissors at back-to-school sales, but many Dorchester senior citizens are eager to return to UMass Boston (UMB) where they will resume a busy schedule of attending and, ... Read more.

5 days to the Sept. 24 preliminary. City Councillor At-Large Felix Arroyo gets the early bird award, with a schedule entry that puts him at the Freeport Bus Yard at 5:30 a.m. District 5 Councillor Rob Consalvo starts the ... Read more.

Voters in Ward 16 Precinct 11— who voted at the McKeon Post on Hilltop Street in the recent House special election—will once again cast their ballots at Florian Hall on Hallet Street in next Tuesday’s election. The ... Read more.

The Boston Licensing Board decides Thursday whether to shut Mac's Guest House, 194 Callender St., after hearing a BPD detective recite a litany of complaints dating back years - including two active rape investigations in ... Read more.

6 days to the Sept. 24 preliminary. Results from the Suffolk University/Herald poll are expected this morning at 9. Another poll ... Read more.

A Boston City Council committee has scheduled a public hearing for Friday at noon on the request by the Suffolk Downs casino developer for a referendum vote on Nov. 5. There's disagreement in the city over whether the ... Read more.

7 days to the Sept. 24 preliminary.

GLOBE ENDORSES BARROS AND CONNOLLY: The Globe this morning ... Read more.

Attorney General Martha Coakley threw herself headlong into the 2014 race for governor on Monday morning, discussing economic growth and education as she embarked on a campaign to wash out the sour taste of her 2010 U.S. ... Read more.

8 days to the Sept. 24 preliminary. Most of the candidates are expected at a forum put together by the Back Bay Association this morning, the first of several ... Read more.

9 days to the Sept. 24 preliminary.

GLOBE POLL: City Councillor At-Large John Connolly holds a slight edge in the Globe poll posted on Saturday night. The poll says just 25 percent of voters have made a decision in ... Read more.

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