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The Games are on for Mayor Martin Walsh’s political team. His “super volunteers” are being prepared to move onto the field under the Boston 2024 banner to engage in an extended grassroots campaign to promote a positive ... Read more.

The chief backer of a Boston bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics is now supporting the idea of a 2016 referendum on the bid.

Suffolk Construction CEO John Fish, who is spearheading the privately funded nonprofit ... Read more.

A federal jury convicted a Dorchester man this week for the brutal attack and robbery of a U.S. postal carrier in December 2013. The brazen attack on Bailey Street left the postman with a non-fatal gunshot wound to the ... Read more.

Support among Boston area voters for Boston hosting the 2024 summer Olympics has fallen from 51 percent in January to 44 percent in February to 36 percent in a WBUR poll of 504 Boston area registered voters taken March 16 ... Read more.

Mayor Martin Walsh’s Chief of Staff Daniel Koh has filed an ethics disclosure with the city today in response to an inquiry from the Dorchester Reporter regarding his relationship with Amy Sennett, an employee of Boston ... Read more.

For the parks department, this spring is a waiting game. After a winter that has officially dumped the most snow in recorded history on the city of Boston, those clamoring to return to the city’s snowbound parks, fields, ... Read more.

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Book signing, discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Kurkjian, who will be on hand to talk about his new book about the Gardner Museum heist, “Master Thieves,” 6-8 p.m ... Read more.

The first independent study of the possible economic impact of Boston’s hosting of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games concludes that there “could be a net economic positive,” but adds there is much left to be determined.

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President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will come to Dorchester on Monday, March 30 to dedicate the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, which opens to the ... Read more.

A man authorities say was the intended target of a gunman who wound up killing an innocent woman waiting for a parade on Blue Hill Avenue was indicted yesterday for his part in ... Read more.

John “Wacko” Hurley, the man who for decades sought to keep LGBT groups out of the South Boston St. Patricks Day Parade, has left the South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, the group which organizes the parade. Hurley ... Read more.

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the Reporter in March 2015.

There is a “rule” in Hollywood when it comes to real history, an axiom that goes something like this: “No matter how good a true ... Read more.

The City Council’s first examination of Boston’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games proved to be a marathon of testimony as boosters and detractors swapped turns at the microphone during a five-hour hearing last ... Read more.

The March 1990 heist at the Isabella Gardner Museum is notorious for all the wrong reasons. Thirteen pieces of precious artwork – including two bona-fide masterpieces by Rembrandt and Vermeer – were taken in the overnight ... Read more.

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