Michael Flaherty
Michael Flaherty
Revealed: McCrea's plan to win the prelim
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Flattery got mayoral hopeful Kevin McCrea nowhere Monday night. Read more
Someone call Howie Carr
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City Councillor At-Large Michael Flaherty's mayoral campaign ratcheted up the rhetoric on Monday, ripping into Mayor Thomas Menino over his proposal to raise the city's meals and lodging taxes. Read more
BoMag and Michael Flaherty
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Boston magazine's Joe Keohane appears to have gotten his wish this year: a mayor's race. And a four-way mayor's race, at that. Read more
Flaherty launches new website: "Dollars and $ense"
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City Councillor At-Large and mayoral candidate Michael Flaherty launched a new website on Saturday that hit Mayor Thomas Menino over city spending. Read more
UPDATED: Flaherty charges Menino with forcing meal and hotel tax-funded "bailout" on city
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The Michael Flaherty campaign took a swing at Mayor Thomas Menino this morning, issuing a statement declaring Flaherty’s opposition to Menino’s plan for a meal and hotel tax increase. Flaherty said that Menino “has failed to effectively manage the city’s revenue and spending.†Read more
GLOBE: Flaherty wants city workers on state med plan
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The Globe reported today that city councilor and mayoral candidate Michael Flaherty supports placing Boston city workers on the state's group insurance plan, claiming that it will save Boston $8 million. Read more
Communities of color seen as key to mayor’s race
Jul. 16, 2009
It was a scathing editorial: In a 624-word April harangue titled “Change is coming,†the Bay State Banner, a local paper chiefly focused on the region’s African-American community, ripped into Mayor Thomas Menino. The author, Melvin Miller, took the incumbent to task after the Boston Redevelopment Authority tabled a Roxbury project that memorialized a local arts educator, Elma Lewis. Read more
Do we have a debate?
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Mayoral candidate Kevin McCrea posts an apparent invitation from WBZ's Jon Keller for an hour-long Aug. 26 debate. Read more
Yoon campaign shake-up
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City Councillor Sam Yoon’s top aide in City Hall is moving over to the campaign. Mary Grissom, Yoon’s chief of staff, will be taking over as campaign manager, a campaign spokesman confirmed to the Reporter. Read more
Typo a Go Go
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Shame on the Lit Drop for missing this on the first go-around!
UPDATE: Flaherty camp says the typo was not included in the flyers that volunteers handed out over the weekend.
