Politics
Just in: we are the first candidate for mayor to qualify for the ballot, with over 3000 certified signatures. #bospoli #bosmayor
— Rep. Martin J. Walsh (@marty_walsh) May 8, 2013
Savin Hill teammates: Danny Ryan and his candidate, State Rep Linda Dorcena Forry, on election day. Photo: Forry campaign
Danny Ryan was on one side of the walkway and Mike Donovan was on the other side. The two had grown up together, but for most of a... Read more
The annual neighborhood fundraisers have been a tradition for Mayor Thomas Menino – usually occurring in Jamaica Plain, East Boston, and in Dorchester. With last month’s announcement that he won’t seek a sixth four-year term, the last one he is expected... Read more
When Mayor Thomas Menino said he would not attempt to add another four-year term to his 20-year tenure, there was little doubt that Dorchester state Rep. Marty Walsh would take a crack at the seat opening up on City Hall’s fifth floor.
On Saturday, before... Read more
Brittani JonesBrittani Jones, 18, has been named the Eastern Region Youth Advocate of the Year by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids for her leadership in the fight against tobacco. The Dorchester teen was honored at a gala in the nation’s capital last... Read more
Boston is not a two-newspaper town. And it hasn't been for quite a while.
The last open mayoral race happened 30 years ago. Before widespread access to the Internet. Before Facebook. Before Twitter. When big city newspapers had a monopoly on the news... Read more
As voters trickled into the polls across the city on Tuesday, mayoral hopefuls flooded the Election Department office to pick up nomination papers and begin to gather the signatures needed to make it onto this fall’s ballot.
Dozens of candidates for mayor... Read more
Tuesday night— election night— was stressful enough for all of the good people involved in the contest for the First Suffolk District State Senate seat. It was made more stressful – and anguish-ridden – than it needed to be because erroneous press reports... Read more
State Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry of Dorchester hardly flinched in the mid-evening hours of Tuesday as The Boston Globe and the Associated Press were reporting that state Rep. Nick Collins, her opponent from South Boston, would win the Democratic nomination... Read more
Emerging from a primary campaign that lacked the intensity many anticipated, U.S. Rep. Edward Markey held off delegation mate Rep. Stephen Lynch in Tuesday's Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, moving on to face former Navy SEAL and political upstart... Read more
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