David Bernstein reports Matt O'Malley is quitting his job as political director of Mass Equality to become a field coordinator for Steve Pagliuca.

Matt O'Malley, who twice ran for Boston City Council, reports he's leaving the sheriff's department to become political director for MassEquality.

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.

Somebody apparently mistook Matt O'Malley's city-council campaign headquarters on Washington Street for a drive-through early this morning.

Adam explains why he's voting for Felix Arroyo and Matt O'Malley in tomorrow's at-large preliminary election - and why he's still not sure what to do (if anything) with his other two votes.

Chris, meanwhile, has compiled a list of the positions taken by the at-large candidates on various issues (it's a PDF file) and points to the Dorchester News's profiles of the candidates.

Steve is keeping a tally of how many recordings of at-large candidates he can hang up on today.

I just got a recording from a supporter of Ed Flynn, who says "outside liberal activists" are pouring large amounts of money into the at-large race for abortion on demand. Huh?

We are technological troglodytes. Not only don't we have cell phones, our kitchen phone is a mid-'70s rotary-dial wall-mounted Bell System phone, the sort you could easily use as a murder weapon ("Bell System property Do not use as a murder weapon" is imprinted on the receiver).

Last night, I answered the phone. It was Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea J. Cabral!

Matt O'Malley, who blogged during his 2003 campaign for an at-large city council seat, is blogging again as he tries for an at-large seat this fall. He discusses three guys he met at Roche Bros.:

... They asked me about the drug problem in Boston. I talked about my plan for hiring pupil adjustment counselors in the public schools (both middle and high), lobbying for more money for dual-diagnosis programs and creating more N.A., A.A., and peer support groups geared toward teens. Treatment and education, I told them, is the best way to curb this epidemic.

One of the guys told me that he was hooked on oxycontin and had been clean for sixteen weeks. We talked at length about how he got started and the difficulties of getting clean. He told me that he had to get out of Boston because he felt he could not escape his addiction, and was looking forward to an upcoming summer job that would take him away ...