Joan Vennochi ponders the relationship between the Republican candidates for the corner office and, um, wherever it is the lieutenant governor sits.

Jonas Prang agrees the Roxbury square is looking much better these days - except, he writes, for Alvah Kittredge's house:

... This poor derelict presides over the square from its address of 10 Linwood Street. It is a wreck and it continues to slide toward destruction right before our eyes. ... The Roxbury Action Program (RAP) - whose name adorns the front of the building - owned this house in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. Preoccupied elsewhere in the neighborhood, RAP sat on the house and allowed it to deteriorate like any feckless, absentee landlord. Since that time RAP has pulled up stakes from 10 Linwood Street and has conveyed the property (probably in 1999) to Alexander Leroy who is trustee of something called the Linwood St Realty Trust. ...

Some photos.

Daniel Jourdet, 52, of Lynn will be arraigned tomorrow on charges he's the guy captured on video yelling racial epithets at an MBTA worker before smashing him in the head on April 1 at the Copley Square stop on the Green Line.

MBTA Transit Police arrested Jourdet today on charges of violating the T worker's civil rights, assault and battery, trespassing and disorderly conduct. He's scheduled for arraignment tomorrow in Boston Municipal Court; in the meantime, he's being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.

Innocent, etc.