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Mayor moves from acute care to rehab hospital

By adamg - 11/26/12 - 1:18 pm

Tom Menino's doctor, Charles Morris, announced today the mayor has been moved to the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital to get his strength back after nearly a month at Brigham and Women's dealing with continuing back problems, an ongoing infection and newly diagnosed type-2 diabetes.

At a press conference this afternoon at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Morris said that Menino also suffered complications from the medications he was taking for Crohn's Disease.

"It is a run of bad luck and nothing that concerns me," Morris said. "He will rebound from this."

Menino 'doing well' but still in the hospital

By adamg - 11/24/12 - 11:14 am

The Herald reports.

Mayor to remain in hospital for foreseeable future

By adamg - 11/13/12 - 3:35 pm

Now it's not so much the virus as the back problem he developed while in the hospital for the virus, Gintautas Dumcius at the Dorchester Reporter tweets.

Menino: Was sick before he left for Italy

By adamg - 11/8/12 - 9:48 am

Tom Menino called the Globe to say he's getting better even as he remains in the hospital.

Forest Hills overpass backers try to get mayor involved in fight against teardown plan

By adamg - 10/31/12 - 8:01 am

The Jamaica Plain Gazette reports that Bridging Forest Hills, which unsuccessfully tried to get the state to replace the crumbling Casey Overpass with a new overpass instead of surface roads, hasn't given up its fight and is now trying to get Mayor Menino to help it convince MassDOT to change its mind. Menino had previously spoken against replacing the overpass with surface roads.

Mayor in hospital with virus

By adamg - 10/28/12 - 2:05 pm

WBZ reports.

City Hall buzzing over mayor's bid to block promotional giveaway on City Hall Plaza

By adamg - 10/18/12 - 6:27 am

The Herald offers a penetrating look at efforts by City Hall to stop what the city's top property-management official called Trojan's "inappropriate and irresponsible" plan to give sex toys away on the family-friendly bricks outside City Hall.

Mayor vetoes council redistricting plan - again

By adamg - 9/25/12 - 6:26 am

The Daily Free Press reports.

Menino, other mayors want state to tax Amazon purchases

By adamg - 9/19/12 - 12:24 pm

And to do it in time for the holiday shopping season.

Menino bangs a gong, gets it on

By adamg - 9/17/12 - 12:35 pm

A collection of photos of the mayor banging things, including a gong.

Also see:
Mayor Menino Cutting Ribbons.

Menino vetoes City Council redistricting plan

By adamg - 9/6/12 - 8:26 pm

WBUR reports the mayor found the revised district-council map shoehorned too many minority voters into too few districts.

New state law frees Boston pit bulls from the tyranny of muzzles

By adamg - 8/23/12 - 8:47 am

Tom Menino and City Councilor Rob Consalvo, however, are aghast at a law that overrides the city pit-bull ordinance.

City council narrowly approves new districts; mayor to review, groups could sue

By adamg - 8/22/12 - 9:44 pm

The Dorchester Reporter updates us on the latest action over the city council's new map for the nine district seats, approved today in a 7-6 vote. At issue: Whether the plan packs too many minority voters in too few districts.

City makes vague sounds about meeting with car service state wants to run out of town

By adamg - 8/15/12 - 8:20 am

The Boston Business Journal reports City Hall is talking about meeting with Uber at some point, now that state officials have said it's breaking state law by using GPSes instead of taxi meters.

Somebody counted up the number of pages the Herald devoted to Chick-fil-A yesterday

By adamg - 7/28/12 - 10:23 am

Four, John Carroll reports, adding that left the Herald no space at all to cover the Mittstakes out of London.

Menino admits to Meninoism: Says he should never have said he could and would keep Chick-fil-A out of Boston

By adamg - 7/26/12 - 3:48 pm

The Herald catches up with Hizzona, who acknowledges he can't legally stop Chick-fil-A from opening up, say, in the space to be vacated by the Purple Shamrock:

"I can't do that. That would be interference to his rights to go there," Menino said, referring to company president Dan Cathy, who drew the mayor's wrath by going public with his views against same-sex marriage.

The mayor added: "I make mistakes all the time. That's a Menino-ism."

So what other large entity that opposes same-sex marriage could the mayor take on?

By adamg - 7/26/12 - 9:51 am

Once you start, where do you stop? How about an organization that already has outlets all over town?

David Bernstein, meanwhile, wishes a pox on everybody and everything on every side of the Great Menino Gay Chicken Wars.

Mayor's letter to Chick-fil-A: Go away

By adamg - 7/25/12 - 1:38 pm

Chick-fil-A would be an insult to the city's long history of expanding freedom.

Globe: Which part of the First Amendment does Menino not understand?

Menino joins Bloomberg in call for tougher gun regulation after Aurora

By adamg - 7/23/12 - 1:56 pm

Tom Menino, long an advocate of tighter controls on gun sales, says the weekend mass murder shows why - although he emphasized background checks and banning criminals from buying guns, neither of which would likely have stopped the alleged murderer from getting lots of ammo, since the guy apparently had no record of criminal or mental-health issues:

Menino to Chick-fil-A: Cluck you

By adamg - 7/20/12 - 7:59 am

The mayor is vowing to block the chicken chain from opening a location on the Freedom Trail after its president said gay marriage could bring God's wrath down on America, the Herald reports. The chain is looking at replacing the Purple Shamrock near Faneuil Hall.

Earlier:
Northeastern skewers plans for campus Chick-fil-A.

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