Politics
With state-level elections over, the media spotlight is looking back at City Hall and next year's council elections. District and at-large councillors are on the 2011 ballot, and then there's the 13-member body's January election of City Council president... Read more
Frustrated with stalled efforts on Beacon Hill to empower city and town administrators to design health plans for their workers, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino announced Wednesday morning that he intends to file legislation to establish a local version of the... Read more
This week's Dot Reporter is chock full of elections write-ups and analysis. But we also take a look at a future election. (And no, it's not 2012.) Whether he's ousted by his colleagues on the City Council, prompting a special election, or he serves out... Read more
There's been a host of public and private postmortems following Election Day. Add this one to the can't-be-missed pile: Senior advisers Doug Rubin and Rob Gray, who worked for Deval Patrick and Charlie Baker, respectively, will weigh in next week with... Read more
Chuck Turner Rally, Oct. 30, 2010. Photo by Don WestCity councillors are weighing next steps after colleague Chuck Turner, who represents Roxbury and parts of Dorchester, was convicted of accepting a $1,000 bribe and lying to the FBI about it months later... Read more
In 1972, a conservative tide was sweeping the country and the Republicans were in power. The Republican who was re-elected that year as vice president —one Spiro T. Agnew— would later be charged with accepting bribes when he was governor of Maryland.... Read more
Tito JacksonWithin hours of the announcement of the verdict, the city’s chattering class was already abuzz with who might be a candidate to replace City Councillor Chuck Turner, now a convicted felon, in District 7.
Tito Jackson, the popular political... Read more
Second of two parts.
Three years ago, a series of newspaper articles raised serious questions of safety and supervision in the operation of so-called “sober homes” throughout the city of Boston, prompting city and state political leaders to call for... Read more
The following election returns for the gubernatorial election on Nov. 2, 2010 are unofficial numbers from the City of Boston Election Department:
Nov. 2 election returns-part 1
Nov.2 election returns part 2
Nov. 2 election returns part 3
Streaming out of the Adams Corner branch library on a crisp Tuesday afternoon, Democratic and Republican voters could agree on one thing: They would be glad when the day was over.
“I just feel like I’ve been inundated with negativity,” said Julie Ingalls... Read more
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