The battle lines were drawn early, and Felix Arroyo could see them and read them. Hours after he was sworn in as the first Latino city councillor in Boston’s history, he voted for Maura Hennigan for the council presidency. Later,
The dives are everywhere. City ordinance demands they can’t be smoke-filled anymore, and the FBI would have you believe that all the hoods and wiseguys are gone, but the rest of the markings are there. The kind of place where
In California, folks can’t make up their mind whether they want to vote or not. At issue – along with child actors, bodybuilders, and adult film stars – is whether or not all the state’s voters are voting under the
Alleging unfair business practices they say could prove ruinous for New England’s largest convention, exhibition, and hotel complex, Bayside Expo owners are going public with complaints that the still-in-construction Boston Convention and Exposition Center (BCEC) is stealing clients. While BCEC
In the pantheon of “I came among you and you took me in” moments, it wasn’t quite on a par with “Ich bin ein Berliner,” President John F. Kennedy’s words of camaraderie to a receptive West Berlin crowd in 1963.
“All you gotta do out here is care! Just care!” Mark Hall throws his big arms up and he looks like someone whose words should be heeded. But Hall is the “good cop,” not the one feared by campers and
“You’re part of a national movement,” Alexander von Hoffman told his audience Monday night. “These small groups have transformed what people considered urban wastelands across the country. It’s a tremendous accomplishment.” Von Hoffman, a senior research fellow at Harvard and
It’s no ivory tower where John Boylan does his work. In the famously snooty, detached, nose-in-the-air world of academia, Boylan is one who likes to get his hands dirty. For that, teacher, manager, community leader, and Fields Corner resident Boylan
On the periphery of the main event were the usual fringe features. Tables of souvenirs: donkey ties, Clinton buttons, “Kiss Me, I’m a Democrat.” There were special interest booths promoting platform accountability and individual pols. There were Lyndon LaRouche representatives.
With legislative, institutional, and community backing, the plans for a renovated Ashmont Station inch forward toward timetables and goals that are decreasingly vague. Not that things are running as smoothly as all involved hope that the buses and trains and
“We’re only as good as our last weekend,” said Tom Keady, and that might have been optimistic. Keady, the associate vice president for governmental and community affairs at Boston College, as well as an operative for Senator John Kerry’s campaign
The clock high above the FleetCenter ice reads 2:21 remaining in a 2-1 game on the first Monday in February. Over on the Boston University bench, Head Coach Jack Parker, playing with the lead in the semifinals of the 51st
The plan calls for Maxine and Ginny to board the bus together and ride to New York City, stand outside the United Nations and tell the politicians inside that they don’t want armies flying their flag to invade Iraq. Maxine
It’s not like he hasn’t been here before. This building, with its cavernous and bomb shelter-like halls of power, is familiar to him. The issues are familiar to him, and so is advocating for them and the people they touch.
Details of the looming reconstruction of Ashmont MBTA station are being worked out between members of the community, the MBTA, and development firm Trinity Financial, with an eye toward beginning construction in late 2003. The renovation of Ashmont is one
