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Amid the hoopla over City Hall employees deleting emails and potentially violating the state records law, the Flaherty campaign on Sunday started running a television ad. The ad buy is for $200,000, with the ad running through the Sept. 22 preliminary. It... Read more
This just in from the mayor's office: Bill Sinnott, corporation counsel, and Bill Oates, chief information officer, regarding "email retention and policies of City of Boston employees." It's set for Room 703, City Hall.
All three challengers vying to unseat Mayor Thomas Menino will appear together outside City Hall Monday morning to decry the routine deletion of city employee emails. City Councillors At-Large Michael Flaherty and Sam Yoon, along with South End contractor... Read more
Two of Mayor Thomas Menino's rivals are pouncing on a news report that says City Hall officials have been potentially violating the state's public records law through the regular deletion their emails. The Boston Globe reported on Sunday that Michael... Read more
They don't help get votes. UPDATE: Steve Garfield closes the case with whoever it was.
We kind of wish we were able to listen in on the interview between Jamaica Plain Gazette's John Ruch and the "official" write-in candidate for mayor. Brighton resident William Feegbeh spoke with the JP Gazette about having eyes on the mayor's chair,... Read more
The Jamaica Plain Gazette checks in with a 2,200-word article on Mayor Thomas Menino: Spending 90 minutes chatting in one of the city’s neighborhoods, Menino was clearly in his element. Picking up a bottle of water that had been damaged so that the cap... Read more
We learned a couple of things at Thursday’s rollicking FOX25/Herald debate, the last televised face-off before the Sept. 22 preliminary: Michael Flaherty doesn’t know how much a ride on the MBTA costs. Mayor Thomas Menino thinks that Boston streets... Read more
For an example of how not to use Facebook in a mayoral campaign, we turn to Allentown, Pennsylvania. Tony Phillips, a councilman running for mayor, apparently engaged in a "flirtatious-turned-salacious" exchange in Facebook's chat option with someone... Read more
Two congressmen are readying to face off over the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's seat, and Dorchester could be caught in the middle. Congressmen Michael Capuano (D-Somerville) and Stephen Lynch (D-South Boston) have pulled nominations papers for the... Read more

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