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Can newspapers fight a two-front war?

The Outraged Liberal, who doesn't live in Boston, wonders if the Boston papers could carve out a couple of inches of mayoral coverage to ask Steve Pagliuca about Afghanistan - or Martha Coakley about anything:

... I know circulation and viewership is down and so is staffing, but is it really impossible to cover both the mayoral race that affects about 600,000 people and the Senate primaries that affects the remaining 6 million of us?

It's anybody's game now: Joe Kennedy not running for Senate

Channel 4 reports.

The Dorchester Reporter reports Michael Capuano will be taking out papers on Tuesday - and adds he started talking about that before Kennedy made his announcement.

Kennedy's complete statement, posted at the Citizens Energy site: