Tom Menino
Tom Menino and some guy from Medford
By adamg - 1/31/12 - 2:27 pm
Mike Bloomberg, late of Medford, posted this photo along with a note:
We disagree on who'll win the #Superbowl, but @MayorTomMenino & I agree on fighting illegal guns. Tune in Sunday
H/t Andrew Phelps.
Mayor Menino to adopt "radically different student assignment plan"
By Anonymous - 1/24/12 - 2:32 pmWest Roxbury Patch reports:
Connolly to Lead Council's Review of Student Assignment Process
City Councilor John Connolly will lead the Council's review of the Boston Public Schools student assignment plan. His announcement comes days after Boston Mayor Thomas Menino's State of the City Address in which the Mayor called for "a radically different student assignment plan."
Connolly's order will be introduced during tomorrow's City Council meeting. No dates have been set yet for the City Council hearings, but Connolly wants to give parents an opportunity to weigh in on what makes a quality school, the challenges parents face with the current assignment process, and changes parents would like to see.
The problem with the mayor's pledge to return to neighborhood schools
By adamg - 1/19/12 - 8:26 amWhat if the schools in one neighborhood are all part of what BPS once euphemistically called "the circle of promise?" The last couple of BPS efforts to reform busing all foundered on the issue that one of its new zones would have contained pretty much nothing but underperforming schools. WBUR reports, talks to Roxbury City Councilor Tito Jackson.
Menino says he wants to bring back neighborhood schools
By adamg - 1/17/12 - 9:53 pmMayor's state of the city address, calls for revamping of Madison Park High School, an all new school-assignment policy at the elementary level, 100 new crime watches, a gambling advisory board and a citywide program to lose 1 million pounds of fat.
Varitek better split those uprights again
By adamg - 1/13/12 - 6:50 amOtherwise the Paul Revere statute in the North End is going to have to wear a Tebow jersey for a day.
Mayor re-appoints School Committee member who objects to uppity white women
By adamg - 1/1/12 - 11:13 am
MartinezChannel 25 reports Mayor Menino has given Claudio Martinez of Jamaica Plain another four-year term on the Boston School Committee.
At a School Committee hearing on a school-closing plan in December, 2010, Martinez told a white parent from the doomed Agassiz School to shut up and sit down because if he wanted to hear from a "white privileged woman" he'd let her know.
The mayor also appointed Meg Campbell, founder of the Codman Academy Charter School, to the committee. Until recently, Boston Public Schools basically considered charter schools the enemy, but over the past couple of years, the mayor and school officials have warmed to them; in 2010, Menino made better BPS/charter integration part of his inauguration speech.
Menino sets midnight deadline for Unoccupy Boston
By adamg - 12/8/11 - 11:15 amThe Globe reports. If Menino's vow of "further action" means eviction, BPD might wait until after then before moving in, like it did last time.
UPDATE: Occupiers have begun moving some tents and equipment offsite. Robin, an Occupy Boston organizer, tweets: "We are moving valuables offsite, not decamping. Last time the BPD destroyed all of our belongings." Chris Faraone reports: "Food at OccupyBoston getting donated back to places. One load going to Pine Street Inn."
Menino looks for new development, ferry terminal on East Boston waterfront
By adamg - 12/7/11 - 8:10 amWBUR reports.
Mayor to throw lunch for high-school team done in by stupid ref
By adamg - 12/7/11 - 7:49 amWBZ reports the Cathedral High football team will be having lunch with Tom Menino.
The mayor vs. the Krafts
By adamg - 12/3/11 - 11:54 amThe Herald reports on the looming battle royale between Tom Menino, who wants a casino at Suffolk Downs, and Robert Kraft, who wants a casino next to his football stadium/mall in Foxboro.
