A quick rundown of the politics and policy in this week’s Reporter:
— “We would go down to City Hall frequently and we were on the same wave-length pretty much all the time,” former Senate President William Bulger recalls of the late Kevin White. “It was, how do we get through this and have everything intact at the end of the effort. There was a maturity and trust for the other person. He was always very kind to me in his public utterances.”
— Wherein Steven Roth of Vornado Realty Trust gets called a “jackass from Manhattan.”
— Chuck Turner’s revenge? Mike Deehan previews Turner’s lawsuit against the City Council. The Supreme Judicial Court hears the arguments next week.
— Revamping of the school assignment plan is just beginning, but here’s a look at what’s changed since last time and what people are looking for.
