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Mayor Thomas Menino on Tuesday asked for the advisory panel eyeing a school assignment overhaul to again delay their vote, scheduled for Saturday, and wrap up their work by before the end of the month.

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Democrats from across the state on Thursday night converged at the Boston Teachers Union headquarters in Dorchester and heard from the two Congressmen hoping to succeed U.S. Sen. John Kerry. Expecting to face off against ... Read more.

Mayor Thomas Menino moved quickly across the red carpet on Tuesday night, his cane barely keeping up with his legs as he headed to the podium just below Faneuil Hall’s main stage. “I have some words of wisdom,” he said in ... Read more.

Congressmen Stephen Lynch and Ed Markey are officially launching their campaigns this week for US Sen. John Kerry’s seat, and Boston’s elected officials at City Hall and the State House will no doubt find themselves ... Read more.

When Khiet Tran bought the property at 1188 Dorchester Ave. in 2006, the Vietnamese immigrant was hoping to build a supermarket. But he discovered its grounds were soaked with chemicals, and he was forced to sink hundreds ... Read more.

Hours after John Kerry submitted his resignation from the US Senate in order to take the top post at the State Department, Gov. Deval Patrick tapped his administration’s former chief of staff to fill out the rest of Kerry ... Read more.

The special election to fill John Kerry’s seat in the U.S. Senate will be in late June, after most schools have let out for the summer and vacation season begins to heat up, Secretary of State William Galvin said on ... Read more.

Congressman Stephen Lynch said Friday that a “final decision” on a U.S. Senate run will come soon, despite multiple ... Read more.

Rev. Jeffrey Brown is stepping down in the spring as executive director of the TenPoint Coalition in order to pursue national work, as the anti-violence group he co-founded and the Boston Ministerial Alliance move toward ... Read more.

Senator John Kerry made the following remarks this morning in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which met today to consider his nomination to be United States Secretary of State.

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The city’s school department is putting three plans in front of the advisory committee that has been tasked with the student assignment overhaul. The options, all of which would eliminate the three-zone model that buses ... Read more.

Photo courtesy Jessica Pabon

Jessica Pabón is obsessed: She has spent the last 11 years studying and writing about female graffiti artists.

Her interest in the topic began with her thesis while she was studying at the University of Arizona, ... Read more.

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