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In the Fourth, Yancey Survives Ego Check

By 
Jim O'Sullivan
Nov. 5, 2003

A victorious Charles Yancey: Left, celebrates his election night win with fellow councillor Chuck Turner at the Unity Sports and Cultural Center.A victorious Charles Yancey: Left, celebrates his election night win with fellow councillor Chuck Turner  Read more

Charles Yancey's Got an 'Ego' Problem

Charles Yancey is in trouble.

That's the impression any sane person gets when they run into one Egobiduke Ezedi, Yancey's fresh-faced opponent in this year's District Four city council race. If you happened to pop into the Blarney Stone, Dorchester's trendiest watering hole of late, last Thursday evening, you know exactly what I'm saying.

Ezedi's campaign rented out the Blarney for what turned out to be a pretty jam-packed fundraiser that would have made any old school Boston pol happy.  Read more

Irish Native Plunges into Race for District Three Council

Gandhi. JFK. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And, of course, Father Dan Finn at St. Mark's on Dot Ave.

These are the men who've inspired Paul Brophy to run for city council this summer, challenging popular incumbent Maureen Feeney, who even Brophy says has done a "great job."

So why is this 38 year-old native of Dublin, Ireland making the leap into electoral politics?  Read more

Cooper Makes City Services an Issue in Challenge for District Three Seat

He's an long-shot candidate for district three city council who is virtually unknown outside his Codman Square neighborhood. Nathan Cooper seems to relish his role as a city hall outsider, though, and isn't shy when it comes to taking his message to points far and wide of his own Bailey Street home.

And what is that message?

Cooper says it's time for a kinder, friendlier city hall, one that is more responsive to the simple, quality of life problems that he says often go unsolved.  Read more