Most Massachusetts officeholders don’t want to be seen anywhere near Lawrence City Hall these days if they don’t have to be there. Members of Congress tend to stay way far […]
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The keys to the Boston school bus driver dispute
In a wildcat strike that took Boston by surprise Tuesday morning, school bus drivers walked off the job, stranding thousands of students without a way to get to school. Officials […]
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Walsh’s arbitration albatross
When the Boston police arbitration award first popped two Fridays ago, it looked like an issue that could be trouble for mayoral candidate Marty Walsh. By this weekend, there seemed […]
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David Koch: Pariah and patron
Billionaire New Yorker David H. Koch landed in both Boston newspapers on Friday for very different reasons. The Herald ran a story on an environmental group that is calling on […]
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Unions emerge as defining issue in mayor’s race
Marty Walsh is making Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham look bad. Yvonne Abraham does not like looking bad. And so, in what’s increasingly looking like a defining issue in Boston ‘s […]
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New Boston gets to vote for old Boston in November
What’s old is new again in Boston. John Connolly and Marty Walsh, two middle-aged white men of Irish descent, will go into the general election to succeed to Mayor Tom […]
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Taking stock of Tommy
Bostonians head to the polls today. For the first time in two decades, they’re picking up mayoral ballots that don’t have Tom Menino’s name on them. As the city works […]
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A civil war for votes
Two big takeaways from the final days of the Boston mayor’s race are that a lot of voters have yet to make up their mind, and the race has remained […]
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Lantigua victorious
Lawrence Mayor William Lantigua’s victory in the city’s preliminary contest shocked exactly no one in the Merrimack Valley. While Boston has had an issue-focused mayoral primary campaign and other races […]
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Globe boosts Barros
Today’s Globe endorses Boston mayoral hopeful John Barros, while scolding former Menino aide Charlotte Golar Richie for running a lackadaisical, identity-laden campaign. That may not be enough to push Barros […]
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Gubernatorial Darwinism
There is a sort of natural selection to the shaping of a political race and Massachusetts voters are beginning to see the electoral circle of life. Within a 24-hour […]
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The Yancey Show
Charles Yancey has no shot at getting elected mayor of Boston in November. Charles Yancey is also a veteran Boston politician whom none of the 11 other would-be mayors of […]
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State GOP looks to 2014
The state’s Democrats kicked off their gubernatorial hunt last week with a convention in Lowell. The Republican answer came more quietly, in the form of a meeting and conference call […]
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A muddled Markey victory map?
Blue-collar cities made the difference between Scott Brown upsetting Martha Coakley in 2010, and Elizabeth Warren toppling Brown two years later. If that pattern holds true, Sen.-elect Ed Markey […]
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Most pollsters nailed it
It’s almost scary how accurate the polls were in the US Senate race between Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez. Markey defeated Gomez by 10 points, and polls on […]
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How low can voter turnout go?
Will Boston Bruins fans be so distraught that they won’t drag themselves to their neighborhood polling place to vote in the US Senate special election? Apparently, according to Secretary of […]
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The vast nothingness of special elections
What if they held a special election and, relatively speaking, nobody came? It could happen. It actually could happen tomorrow with the uninspiring special Senate election that has been relegated […]
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No sign of traction for Gomez
Comparisons to Scott Brown have been swirling around Gabriel Gomez ever since the Cohasset businessman and former Navy SEAL stormed past a pair of longtime Bay State Republican fixtures, and […]
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Markey vs. Gomez vs. Zzzzzzzzz
There is an election for US Senate in Massachusetts two weeks from tomorrow — and the Boston Herald is going to beat readers over the head with that news from […]
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Gomez’s party problem
The more Gabriel Gomez tries to put some daylight between himself and the national GOP, the tighter Gomez’s party clings to him. These guys absolutely cannot take a hint and […]
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Gomez gambit: I’m no party animal
Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez is trying to distance himself from the national GOP. This proves that, in addition to being a successful businessman and former Navy SEAL, Gomez also […]
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GOP makes the going tougher for Gomez
By all rights, Regina McCarthy’s nomination by President Obama to head the Environmental Protection Agency should be sailing through the normally partisan-riven Senate. The Dorchester native and UMass Boston graduate […]
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The GOP goes gonzo for Gomez
Gabriel Gomez, the ex-Navy Seal, private equity man, and telegenic son of Colombian immigrants, steps into the spotlight as Massachusetts Republicans’ dream come true. He represents the best attempt yet […]
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Voters yawn, Markey marches forward?
Polls don’t actually vote. Special elections go sideways sometimes. But barring some cataclysmic shift, Ed Markey has a pretty good shot at becoming the Democratic nominee for US Senate tonight […]