THE FEDERAL TRIAL of Tim Sullivan and Ken Brissette has upended the notion of Boston City Hall fighting for the interests of its residents. When I was Mayor Ray Flynn’s […]
Don Gillis
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Boston’s grass roots
A People’s History of the New Boston By Jim Vrabel Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press 288 pages history is replete with the stories of the mighty and powerful. Jim Vrabel’s […]
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MAYOR MATTERS: Fair play
First in a series In the Summer issue of CommonWealth, with the Boston mayor’s race gearing up, James Aloisi suggested that Boston faced a “surfeit of candidates and a dearth […]