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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

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.

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.

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.

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. ...

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.

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.

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.

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:

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. ...

By adamg - 10/2/05 - 11:53 pm

Adam went to see the Comcast on-demand video of the recent debate between Tom Menino and Maura Hennigan only to discover Comcast only kept it up for only 48 hours:

I don't understand why it's not just online - it seems to that political debates are the ideal sort of non-copyright-sensitive content that ought to be freely available on the Internet.

So, anybody know if the debate is online? If not, anybody have a videotape they could lend Adam so he could translate it to digital and post it?

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