Jimmy Kelly

Remembering Jimmy Kelly

Seth Gitell, who wrote about Kelly as a Phoenix reporter, then had to deal with him as a press aide to Tom Menino, attended his wake yesterday:

... I was over at St. Brigid's yesterday. There were two lines leading into the Church. I opted for the one farther down the street, which, for whatever reason, was the one without the dignitaries. Old guys with scally caps, aging women pulling their coats tight to fend off the cold, middle-aged men with weathered faces - they all waited patiently to pay their respects to the man. ...

Boston should name a bridge after Jimmy Kelly

Best political stretch of the day

Devone Tucker asserts that Deval Patrick owes some of his success in November to Jimmy Kelly.

Sickbed conversion for Jimmy Kelly?

Mass Marrier thinks Jimmy Kelly's recent bout with brain cancer will turn him into a liberal. Even before he was admitted to the hospital, Kelly was warming to the idea of civil unions, if not outright gay marriage.