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A few hundred supporters of Dorchester state Rep. Marty Walsh’s mayoral campaign assembled at the intersection of L Street and Broadway on Thursday afternoon, spilling out onto the street, hours after South Boston state ... Read more.

There are 18 days until the Sept. 24 mayoral preliminary. City Councillor Rob Consalvo plans to release a “plan to keep our kids safe in school” at 10:30 a.m. at the Conley School in Roslindale. Later, he heads to meet ... Read more.

Eyesore remains a hold-out on Dudley Street
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On a Friday morning in mid-June, City Councillor At-Large John Connolly had just toured the St. Francis House by Boston Common when his car died. “Guess who is taking shared bike to next event,” he posted to Twitter, the ... Read more.

On Labor Day, the inside of the Park Plaza Hotel looked a lot like Dorchester Avenue: Marty Walsh signs were hanging from nearly every available surface.

The Greater Boston Labor Council’s breakfast drew several ... Read more.

“Ask questions.” That was the advice Mayor Thomas Menino passed onto the Boston School Committee’s newest member: Ayomide Olumuyiwa, a 16-year-old Mattapan resident who attends the John D. O’Bryant School of Math & ... Read more.

Voters in parts of Boston will go to the polls for the fifth time in six months today: Another special election is on the Sept. 10 ballot, with this one filling the House seat left vacant by Linda Dorcena Forry when she ... Read more.


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Now that Labor Day is past, schools, libraries and other cultural organizations in Dorchester are slowly beginning to roll out their offerings for Hispanic Heritage Month ... Read more.

What do condoms and sex ed have to do with the high school dropout rate? A lot. Becoming a parent is a leading cause of dropout for girls and a factor in why many boys drop out. Given that Boston’s high school dropout ... Read more.

The mayoral race chugs along. Highlights from Wednesday include:

-- Actor Danny Glover, best known for his roles in “Lethal Weapon” and “The Color Purple,” is coming to a fundraiser for former School Committee ... Read more.

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, SEPT. 4, 2013……Citizen petitions to raise the minimum wage, zero out a new tax on computer services and expand the state’s bottle deposit law were certified by Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office ... Read more.

Dorchester’s two representatives in Congress appear unlikely to support a military intervention in Syria, as their former colleague in the Massachusetts delegation, Secretary of State John Kerry, is pressing lawmakers to ... Read more.

State Rep. Nick Collins, a South Boston Democrat, is backing City Councillor At-Large John Connolly in the race to replace Mayor Thomas Menino ... Read more.

The Sept. 24 prelim is 20 days away.

-- At 8 a.m., District 5 Councillor Rob Consalvo takes aim at the “corporate education reform movement” outside the Roosevelt School in Hyde Park, holding a press avail to “ ... Read more.

Officials at Boston City Hall haven't seen many new voter registrations in the weeks leading up to this month's preliminary municipal elections, but are bracing for a possible blitz of new voters generated by mayoral ... Read more.

The Sept. 24 preliminary is 23 days away.

-- This came in from the Marty Walsh campaign last night: “We believe we will report $383,000 for the month, which puts us in the vicinity of $1.1 million since the start ... Read more.

In response to a News Service questionnaire, ten of the 12 candidates for mayor of Boston offered their positions on how state law could be altered to allow for more liquor licenses for the city. Currently, the ... Read more.

Several members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation called for caution and forethought in the nation’s approach to Syria, which might include military force.

U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey, and ... Read more.

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