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South End News election endorsements

By SRV - 11/3/05 - 1:50 pm

The South End News endorsed Susan Passoni in the District 2 race; Menino for Mayor; and Felix Arroyo, Patricia White, Matt O'Malley and Michael Flaherty in the At-Large race. The newspaper does not have a Web site. Here's the editorial:

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Boston City Council endorsements

This year’s crop of candidates for Boston City Council is the strongest we’ve seen in years. Voters are better off for it. When we go to the polls next Tuesday, Nov. 8, we’ll have an opportunity to send new energy, ideas and passion to Boston’s much-maligned City Council.

One of the themes emerging from the At-Large race is that the Council is only as strong as its members make it. Although the Council’s powers technically reside just in its authority to approve the Mayor’s budget, the Council is a powerful bully pulpit from which to push policy ideas and endorse social movements.

Bay Windows City Council endorsements

By SRV - 11/3/05 - 1:45 pm

Bay Windows endorsed Mayor Menino for reelection ("[I]t's hard to think of another big-city mayor who is more supportive of LGBT rights than Menino.") and Susan Passoni ("[I]t is long past the time that the South End, home to one of the city's highest concentrations of gay residents, was represented by someone who sees LGBT people as equally deserving of Constitutional rights as every other citizen.") for District 2 City Councilor.

In the At-Large race, the paper endorsed Matt O'Malley, Michael Flaherty, Patricia White and Felix Arroyo. Click

Spare Change News: Election Coverage and Opinion Poll

By kryst3000 - 11/3/05 - 1:44 pm

Greetings,

My name is Paul Rice, and I'm the managing editor for Spare Change News, an alternative newspaper in the Boston area serving the homeless community.

My purpose here is two-fold: first, to include our campaign coverage among the various posts here on how the media are portraying the city election -- the latest edition of SCN has in-depth coverage of the election that readers should find useful in determining how they will vote November 8th. We have profiles of various candidates, as well as answers to eight questions we submitted to the mayoral and at-large candidates that cover issues other publications ignore.

Campaign notes: Phoenix goes for Hennigan

By adamg - 11/3/05 - 11:51 am

Less than resounding endorsement from the Phoenix, but better than nothing: basically, Menino's gotten soft and tired and Hennigan's at least as qualified as Menino was 12 years ago. Also getting the paper's nod: Sam Yoon, John Connolly, Patricia White and Felix Arroyo. As well as Susan Passoni in the South End/South Boston, John Tobin, sort of, in JP and West Roxbury and Jerry McDermott in Allston/Brighton.

Campaign notes: Menino gets big-paper endorsements

By adamg - 11/2/05 - 10:40 am

A rare two-fer: Both the Globe and the Herald endorse Menino - but caution him against fourth-term backsliding.

Campaign notes: We're all going to die

By adamg - 11/1/05 - 12:41 pm

Maura Hennigan rolls out new TV ads that portray Boston as completely unprepared for earthquakes, hurricanes, terrorists and the release of bioweapons.

Will Councilor Charles Yancey endorse Hennigan today?

The Globe makes its at-large endorsements: Connolly, Yoon, Arroyo and Flaherty.

Mayoral fast facts

By adamg - 10/29/05 - 11:48 pm

Craig is compiling a series of true facts, such as:

... Tom Menino toured with Depeche Mode for a brief period in the late 1980's.

Maura Hennigan once killed a man with her bare hands over a parking spot at Home Depot. ...

Menino loses another vote

By adamg - 10/28/05 - 2:29 pm

Tom Menino says he didn't show up at a Southie meeting last week out of respect for Jean Lampron, the woman who died of a heart attack while being mugged. But the Unchosen One says the meeting wasn't a memorial service, it was a meeting for residents to discuss crime in the neighborhood:

Campaign notes: Ray Flynn jumps back in

By adamg - 10/28/05 - 8:46 am

Hennigan, Flynn (Ray, that is) hit Menino for not attending a South Boston meeting on crime after that poor woman's death.

Menino stands on his record; Hennigan takes aim at his flaws.

At-large candidates debated in West Roxbury.

Campaign notes: The perpetual mayor; Yancey not a liar

By adamg - 10/27/05 - 7:55 am

Tom Menino, who once said he would serve only two terms, might be looking toward 2009. At least, he hasn't ruled it out, not even after seeing those ambivalent poll numbers.

Campaign notes: Menino advisor quits

By adamg - 10/25/05 - 11:11 am

The Herald reports that election-law guy with the legal problems has quit. You can also read the Globe's catch-up piece.

No fluffy Globe pieces today on at-large candidates' preferred finger foods.

Unmarked cars

By adamg - 10/25/05 - 9:39 am

Chasing the Herald, the Globe reports today that the mayor is reducing the use of unmarked cars by city officials. Carpundit says the issue won't help the challenger in this year's mayoral race:

Campaign notes

By adamg - 10/24/05 - 9:50 am

Catching up on the news (was down in Connecticut yesterday; it happens):

Campaign notes

By adamg - 10/21/05 - 1:40 pm

For the second day in a row, Brian McGrory actually gets off his tuchus and does some real reporting, this time to check out Maura Hennigan's assertion that the path around Jamaica Pond is a rubble-strewn minefield. McGrory discovers it's not.

The secret crime stats

By adamg - 10/21/05 - 9:17 am

So the Boston PD suddenly won't release crime statistics and won't let people see precinct police logs (which are public records)? Call Jay a cynic, but:

... I have little doubt if the numbers had pointed in another direction, we would have learned about them a long time ago via megaphones loudly blaring the news from campaign trucks. ...

Menino, Hennigan, McGrory

By adamg - 10/20/05 - 9:14 am

Article and audio clips of the McGrory-sponsored debate.

John calls it Yawnfest 2005.

The Unchosen One: I gotta tell ya, I really don't like either of these candidates. At all. Period.

Who shot at Michael Flaherty?

By adamg - 10/19/05 - 12:56 pm

Which is worse? That somebody tried to kill the city-council president last night or that somebody took a potshot at his SUV just for the hell of it?

The Unchosen One: This was probably not an assassination attempt, but doesn't that make it scarier?

Menino / Hennigan debate debate

By adamg - 10/15/05 - 5:37 pm

If you missed the WBZ "debate," you can download it in pieces.

Mass Marrier scored the debate high on the Irritate-o-Meter, like listening to Maura Chihuahua yapping at Tom Droopy Dawg. Ultimately, Hennigan lost by coming across as a desperate pol willing to play loose with the facts and unable to come up with a coherent program for change:

... She certainly seems to lack the debating ability and knowledge to prove Tom incompetent. Was she really the best competition available? ...

A soggy human billboard

By adamg - 10/15/05 - 10:55 am

Wet!

Neither rain nor, um, more rain, will stay Menino campaign workers from standing in Cleary Square with campaign signs today.

Would a gun have saved that lady in South Boston?

By adamg - 10/14/05 - 12:55 pm

Bruce blames Tom Menino for the death of Jean Lampron, because Menino supports limits on gun ownership and Bruce somehow knows that Lampron would been packing if not for Menino.

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