Politics
Dianne Wilkerson letter on behalf of her son, Cornell MillsFormer State Senator Dianne Wilkerson made an impassioned plea on behalf of her son Cornell Mills in an eleventh-hour letter delivered to voters in District 7 on Monday. In the letter, a copy of... Read more
The preliminary special election to replace former City Councillor Chuck Turner draws near, and that means things are heating up. (Though nobody’s falsely called anybody a crack addict yet.)
Cornell Mills, one of the seven candidates running for the... Read more
A small fraction of District 7’s 40,000 registered voters are expected to hit the polls on Tuesday, with six contenders on the ballot and a write-in candidate vying to replace former City Councillor Chuck Turner.
Turner’s ouster from the council after... Read more
Reagan at Eire Pub
This weekend will likely be chock-full of remembrances, since Feb. 6 is the 100th anniversary of former President Ronald Reagan's birth.
Dorchester has its own memory of the fortieth U.S. president: He dropped by the famed Eire Pub in... Read more
This week’s Reporter’s Notebook takes a brief look at the first candidate to jump into the City Council District 3 race, former City Council At-Large candidate Doug Bennett, who is now living in Adams Village.
And just after we went to press early Tuesday... Read more
City Councillor At-Large Felix Arroyo is pushing for Gov. Deval Patrick to appoint a neighborhood advocate to the city’s powerful Licensing Board.
The three-member board, which largely grants and regulates alcohol and food licenses for restaurants and... Read more
Gov. Deval Patrick may tend to stay out of contested primaries, but his wife, not so much. First Lady Diane Patrick is headlining District 7 candidate Tito Jackson's campaign kick-off Monday night.
The kick-off starts at 7 p.m. at Hibernian Hall in... Read more
House Speaker Robert DeLeo on Friday named state Rep. Marty Walsh (D-Dorchester) to the top of the House Ethics Committee.
Walsh, a local union leader who once strongly backed DeLeo's rival for the speakership, served as vice chair of the Joint Committee... Read more
Six of the seven candidates hoping to replace former City Councillor Chuck Turner faced off at a Roxbury forum last week. From left to right: Cornell Mills, Natalie Carithers, Tito Jackson, and moderator Keith Chaney. Photo by Eric Esteves
It was a vote... Read more
Chuck TurnerChuck Turner, the former Boston city councillor who was convicted last year of accepting a bribe as part of a federal anti-corruption sting, was sentenced on Tuesday afternoon to three years in prison.
Turner, 70, said he would appeal the... Read more
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