Sam Yoon
Mayoral hopeful Kevin McCrea on Tuesday said the city should dump police details at road construction sites.
"I want to concentrate the police on doing police work," he told the Reporter.
Construction site oversight should be left to civilian flaggers, he... Read more
Taking a shot at Mayor Thomas Menino, mayoral candidate Sam Yoon said Monday night that he would keep his name off city signs that denote projects and neighborhoods.
“That will be a major budget cost saving initiative that I will do as mayor,†Yoon... Read more
The Boston Phoenix's David Bernstein wrote this morning that the Yoon campaign should capitalize on Gov. Deval Patrick filing legislation on charter schools that is similar to the mayoral hopeful's.
Four hours later, voilà :
Yoon Urges Swift Passage of... Read more
As U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan drops by Boston to bolster Gov. Deval Patrick's proposal to lift the charter school cap in underperforming school districts, The Economist -- the news magazine that people on the train like to use to cover their... Read more
Mayoral candidate Kevin McCrea posts an apparent invitation from WBZ's Jon Keller for an hour-long Aug. 26 debate.
Here's the format. And for those keeping track at home, this is how you do an actual debate. Anything else is a "forum," where you read off... Read more
City Councillor Sam Yoon’s top aide in City Hall is moving over to the campaign. Mary Grissom, Yoon’s chief of staff, will be taking over as campaign manager, a campaign spokesman confirmed to the Reporter.
She is leaving City Hall at the end of the... Read more
Shame on the Lit Drop for missing this on the first go-around!
UPDATE: Flaherty camp says the typo was not included in the flyers that volunteers handed out over the weekend.
Mayoral hopeful Michael Flaherty's campaign is pressing for more debates. The campaign had 150 volunteers out this weekend, passing out flyers that hit incumbent Mayor Thomas Menino on debates, or rather the current lack thereof.
Menino has agreed to... Read more
Responding to mayoral candidate Sam Yoon's call for term limits, fellow candidate Michael Flaherty said that should be left up to Boston voters.
Voters should file an initiative petition to establish the term limits, he adds.
"...[W]hen it comes to making... Read more
From the Dept. of Oops: In a release promoting a proposal on term limits for Boston mayors, the Yoon camp goofed on the number of popes and U.S. presidents since 1968.
Noting that there have been three mayors (Kevin White, Ray Flynn, and current incumbent... Read more
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