Politics
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
State Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry on Tuesday eked out a win in a three-way Democratic primary as part of a special election to replace former state Sen. Jack Hart in the First Suffolk Senate District seat, her campaign said. Dorcena Forry, a Dorchester... Read more
A newspaper ad featuring a photo of Gov. Deval Patrick and a candidate for the vacant First Suffolk Senate seat is “misleading,” Patrick said Sunday.
“This past week, a group calling itself Communities United PAC published a misleading ad in a local... Read more
Rev. Jeffrey Brown said on Friday that he isn’t endorsing anybody in the First Suffolk Senate race. His statement to the Reporter came after a release from state Rep. Nick Collins’s campaign erroneously claimed the reverend as a supporter.
Days later, Rev... Read more
Community activist John Barros kicked off his mayoral bid on Thursday, officially entering the already crowded field.
The Dorchester resident has served on the School Committee and as head of the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative. He resigned from the... Read more
Senate primary on Tuesday: Democratic candidates Maureen Dahill, Linda Dorcena Forry, and Nick Collins at Monday’s DotOUT forum in Savin Hill. Mike Deehan photo
Voters in Dorchester, Mattapan, South Boston, and a portion of Hyde Park will go to the polls... Read more
The former executive director of the Massachusetts Democratic Party will manage City Councillor At-Large Felix Arroyo’s mayoral campaign. Clare Kelly, who has also worked as Gov. Deval Patrick’s field director in his 2010 reelection campaign, is a North... Read more
Candidates hoping to succeed Mayor Thomas Menino slowly returned to the campaign trail this week after most of them had suspended campaign activities following last week’s Boston Marathon bombings.
Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley appeared at a First... Read more
John Barros, who opened up a mayoral campaign committee last week, is resigning from the School Committee.
“I really feel the work of the School Committee is too important to be distracted by me as a candidate sitting on the School Committee,” he said on... Read more
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