Battles between Boston mayors and public safety unions historically can be compared to slugfests glimpsed through a backyard fence.
Tom Menino
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Wu, Menino had identical winning margins
IN THE CLOSING weeks of the Boston mayor’s race, Michelle Wu was name-checking her one-time boss, Tom Menino, a lot more than her former law professor, Elizabeth Warren. It was […]
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Janey hands out the goodies
COULD FREE BUS SERVICE along Blue Hill Avenue in 2021 do for Kim Janey what putting the brakes on city water rates did for Tom Menino in 1993? In 1993, then-Acting […]
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Some advice for Boston mayoral campaigns
AN OPEN BOSTON mayoral campaign is often called a once-in-a-generation event. In fact, we had such a race only eight years ago, when Tom Menino retired after a record-setting 20 […]
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Angela Menino throws support behind Kennedy
GUSHING REVERENTIALLY ABOUT Boston’s longest serving mayor apparently only gets you so far. Eight days after Sen. Ed Markey said the vandalized statue of Christopher Columbus in a North End […]