Politics
A Thursday night forum featuring District 7 candidates will be held at the Roxbury YMCA.
The forum, put together by a group of minority and neighborhood groups, starts at 6:30 p.m. The forum was originally slated for the Freedom House in Grove Hall.... Read more
Gov. Deval Patrick on Tuesday pressed for an increase in the state's retirement age and a change to the way state pensions are calculated on Tuesday as he rolled out the next phase of pension reform he called necessary to ensure that the state's pension... Read more
City Council President Stephen Murphy released on Thursday committee assignments for city councillors, with Dorchester's Maureen Feeney staying atop the Government Operations panel. East Boston's City Councilor Sal LaMattina will be the council's vice... Read more
A federal judge on Thursday denied former City Councillor Chuck Turner's request to move his sentencing date. The date is still set for Jan. 25, three and a half weeks before voters go to the polls to replace him.
Turner, who was tossed from the City... Read more
He entered on the crutches to the theme of “Rocky” and ended with a quippy admonishment to the audience to “get your cars off the street” ahead of the incoming snowstorm. And in between, Mayor Thomas Menino, recovering from knee surgery, reviewed the past... Read more
Who knows how it started. Maybe someone read a news article too quickly, or misheard a newsreader on the radio.
But by mid-afternoon Tuesday, former City Councillor Chuck Turner’s chief of staff was compelled to send out the following notice: Turner has... Read more
Former Sen. Wilkerson's statement after her sentencing. Video by Gal Tziperman Lotan.
It was strike two for former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson. More than a decade after the Roxbury Democrat was convicted of federal tax evasion charges, Wilkerson was... Read more
Mayor Thomas Menino's elderly affairs chief is leaving the administration. Eliza Greenberg has served as elderly affairs commissioner in April 2004.
She is taking a job outside of city government, the Lit Drop has learned.
Greenberg is the latest... Read more
Michael Flaherty:: Will he make an attempt to return to City Hall in '11?
Locally, as politics-dominated years go, 2010 is unlikely to get topped anytime soon. A Republican from Massachusetts was elected to the U.S. Senate, and the nation sent dozens more... Read more
A top aide to Mayor Thomas Menino is trading in City Hall for UMass Boston. Judith Kurland, who had previously served as Menino's chief of staff, is establishing the Center for Community Democracy and Democratic Literacy at UMass Boston's McCormack... Read more
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