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Weeks after excoriating him on the SailBoston issue, Globe columnist Scot Lehigh has some props for Mayor Thomas Menino, who is warring with the local firefighters' union:
Although late to the table on fire department reform, Mayor Tom Menino wins solid... Read more
Or rather, the debate over the MassVOTE forums. (Which, it should be noted, are different from debates in not being as extensive.)
The Boston Herald reports:
A Boston-based voting rights group credited with boosting minority turnout in the Hub said... Read more
We here at the Lit Drop would be remiss if we didn’t mention the recent profile that the Dorchester Reporter’s sister paper, the Boston Irish Reporter, has on Michael Flaherty, City Councillor At-Large and a candidate for mayor.
Flaherty's Irish roots... Read more
Gov. Deval Patrick said Tuesday he was “devastated†by news of the closure of a local African-American newspaper.
Speaking to a crowd of ethnic media reporters at the State House, the state’s first black governor said the weekly Bay State Banner had... Read more
Mayor Thomas Menino disavowed on Monday comments made by his debate manager on the “organizational capacity†of a nonpartisan voting rights group to hold a debate.
Menino’s debate manager, former CBS news executive Ed Fouhy*, told the Boston Herald... Read more
Mayor Thomas Menino has hit “electoral gold†by laying down a moratorium on significant development decisions, a Banker and Tradesman columnist and former Boston Herald reporter writes.
The aim is to prevent any controversies that might affect his... Read more
But Gov. Deval Patrick, emerging from a Tuesday night forum with the Caribbean community, certainly had some warm words for City Councillor At-Large Sam Yoon, one of the three candidates challenging Mayor Thomas Menino.
"I think it's great," Patrick told... Read more
Mayoral candidate and City Councillor At-Large Michael Flaherty capped off his “Good. Better.†ad campaign on Monday with the release of a video showing the set-up of a sign in Dorchester.
The sign, which can be spotted at the corner of Gallivan Blvd... Read more
The Yoon camp is probably pretty happy today with this article from The New Republic, a left-leaning magazine, which portrays the race for mayor coming down to Mayor Thomas Menino and their guy, and leans a bit on local write-ups (Boston magazine and the... Read more
Couple of politically-themed things going on in Boston tonight:
First up, there’s the at-large candidates’ forum in Copley Square. Most are expected to show up.
Felix G. Arroyo is holding a campaign kick-off at roughly the same time, but will try to... Read more
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