Politics
The Get Fresh Crew, a group of twelve high school students from the UMass-Boston Upward Bound program, will travel to Comalapa, Guatemala, and help to build the Tecnico Maya Vocational School, a building constructed from recyclable material, mainly tires... Read more
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Iraq-Afghanistan visit: Congressman Steve Lynch observes training of Afghan National Army recruits. Congressman Stephen Lynch said this week that he remains optimistic about the pace of the draw-down of U.S... Read more
Seven percent of District 7’s registered voters turned out on Tuesday to narrow the field of candidates vying to succeed former City Councillor Chuck Turner to two: Tito Jackson, former aide to Gov. Deval Patrick, and Cornell Mills, a onetime civilian... Read more
Dave McDonald, a Mattapan-based contractor, gets 75 percent of his business from the city of Boston and has worked on more than 60 housing projects with the help of a block grant program.
But his business is now in danger, he says, with President Obama’s... Read more
Political activists of color are urging the next generation to get more involved in politics and the looming debate over redrawing Congressional districts. “You need to be in that room,” Mukiya Baker-Gomez advised several dozen members of the Young... Read more
Boston's State House delegation on Wednesday voted in state Rep. Aaron Michlewitz as chair.
The North End Democrat, who was unopposed in his bid, also serves as vice chairman of the House side of the Joint Committee on Transportation. Michlewitz, former... Read more
Tito Jackson: Big winner tonight in District 7 race.Tito Jackson, the heavy favorite to replace Chuck Turner as the city councillor in Boston's district 7, can celebrate a landslide victory with his supporters tonight, according to preliminary figures... Read more
Dianne Wilkerson letter on behalf of her son, Cornell MillsFormer State Senator Dianne Wilkerson made an impassioned plea on behalf of her son Cornell Mills in an eleventh-hour letter delivered to voters in District 7 on Monday. In the letter, a copy of... Read more
The preliminary special election to replace former City Councillor Chuck Turner draws near, and that means things are heating up. (Though nobody’s falsely called anybody a crack addict yet.)
Cornell Mills, one of the seven candidates running for the... Read more
A small fraction of District 7’s 40,000 registered voters are expected to hit the polls on Tuesday, with six contenders on the ballot and a write-in candidate vying to replace former City Councillor Chuck Turner.
Turner’s ouster from the council after... Read more
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