Notes from the debate at Channel 5:

Is City Hall too white?

Menino: Several my black people taken by Patrick. But look at service in minority neighorhoods. "I don't see color out there in the neighborhoods." We have diversity in neighborhoods, no racial tension like 16 years ago. Look at the services we provide in the neighborhoods. We're already working on hiring more minorities, but our boards and commissions are 50% minority.

Flaherty: I intend to make sure supervisors represent the face of the city. Only two people of color currently in cabinet-level positions. That will change.

The Globe reports Boston will hire a company to "scan" all the internal City Hall messages to and from Michael Kineavy and then post those (so sounds like PDFs, although maybe they'll make it even more fun and post 5,018 GIF images). No word on the other messages, the ones the city claims would cost $250,000 to retrieve - or the messages that were forwarded to the feds.

Mike Ball was quite enjoying himself at the Beantown Jazz Festival yesterday when all of a sudden Tom Menino showed up and was introduced effusively by Berklee's president as the next mayor. Also:

... Our longest-serving mayor wore an apricot-colored pullover. The effect was somewhere between someone with a failed paint-on tan and a Shmoo ...

A Florida street performer who came north to perform in front of Faneuil Hall last year only to be herded into a small space with lots of other performers is asking a federal judge to rescind what he calls a violation of his First Amendment rights.

Bruce "Chance" Peck sued the city earlier this year in US District Court in Boston over Mayor Menino's decision in July, 2008 to restrict street performers alongside the Faneuil Hall building, because their noise was bothering Hizzoner up in his fifth-floor City Hall office.

Reporters love tips.

Map showing which wards Menino and Flaherty led in and whether they got more or less than 50% of the vote there. Yoon and McCrea did not win any wards. NOTE: Although precinct lines are shown, the map is based on wardwide numbers.

Complete ward numbers.

Chris Lovett posts some numbers: Flaherty mostly carried South Boston, along with some precincts in Charlestown and Dorchester. Yoon carried nine precincts, in the West End, Fenway, Back Bay, JP and Allston, but as Lovett also notes, Back Bay and Allston had some of the lowest overall turnouts in the city.

Matt O'Malley takes the ward view, notes Menino took 19 or the city's 22 wards.

Half of Boston voters who showed up at the polls said yesterday that "good" is good enough. Can Michael Flaherty overcome that?

Possibly the most important thing for Flaherty is something he can't control: Will Donovan Slack at the Globe keep digging into City Hall? Can she find more than the e-mail flap? What about 16 years' worth of BRA development deals? Ooh, what about the Roxbury mosque - a fun little project that involves both the BRA and missing e-mail?

Because while Flaherty was chanting "We can't wait!" last night, 51% of the people who voted yesterday were saying "Yes we can wait!"

UPDATE: Putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5? There was a fire drill today at Center Plaza. But the Boston Fire Department tells the Herald there were no firefighters involved. And as you'll see in the comments, people who work in the building say they were told ahead of time about the drill by building management. So my apologies to firefighters for jumping the gun after seeing this tweet.

Boston firefighters decided today would be a good day to test the fire preparations at 2 Center Plaza, which happens to be the location of Tom Menino's campaign headquarters.

Menino campaign spokesman Nick Martin says 50 to 60 campaign staffers - in addition to workers in nearby offices - had to evacuate when firefighters pulled the alarms around 2 p.m.

Martin said workers were kept outside for about half an hour. He added that many took cell phones with them so they could try to do some work.

Firefighters Local 718 was an early supporter of Michael Flaherty. They've feuded with Menino for years over a lack of contract and, more recently, mandatory drug and alcohol testing.

And what better place to put a "resort casino" than Suffolk Downs?

Unlike Sal DiMasi, who managed to quash casinos, successor Bob DeLeo favors them.

Tom Menino has long supported a casino in Boston - two years ago, he backed a casino at the racetrack - and repeated that support earlier this week at a candidate's forum in the Back Bay, saying it would help create jobs.