Big-name pols push ‘no’ on pot vote

The political heavies of the Commonwealth, including the governor, the mayor and the tough-on-crime district attorneys, have pounced on a pair of TV spots

Sheehan Memoir “Dorchester Streets” Recalls Neighborhood’s Depression Days

Dorchester Streets. The name itself is somewhat deceiving.

In reality, this new 278 page memoir, written by neighborhood native Robert Louis Sheehan, is more of a tribute to the people of depression era Dorchester than the streets and homes they inhabited.

In particular, it is a moving recollection of the turbulent ’30s and ’40s as experienced by one particularly hard-hit family- the Sheehans. Ravaged by a poverty that was profoundly worsened by the misdeeds of an alcoholic father, it is, in one sense, Dorchester’s very own version of Angela’s Ashes.

Chuck Turner Uses Council Seat to Stir Activism in Seventh District

Nine months on the Boston City Council have done little to change the anti-establishment persona that Chuck Turner groomed over the last 30 years as an activist in Boston’s African-American communities.

The Roxbury resident first swooped across the city’s political radars last fall during the campaign to fill the district seven seat left by two-term councillor Garreth Saunders. With an army of red sign-carrying supporters and a whimsical slogan (“Bold, Bald, and Bright”)

Gov. Cellucci’s visit to Fields Corner leaves some skeptical

It was, in some respects, your typical “dog and pony” show Tuesday morning on the bus ramp inside the lovely Fields Corner Red Line station. Just about every politician in the 617 area code braved the chilly rain to seek a piece of the credit for bringing home the bacon for Dorchester’s disintegrating train stations. Ironically, the man who most deserved the credit on Beacon Hill- House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran- was not among them.

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