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Connolly on the Boston Mayoral Final Push

October 21, 2013 By massmarrier 79 Comments

Click the player below for 17 minutes of Boston mayoral candidate John Connolly speaking of the last 15 years to the voting. Weeks in the making, I was pleased to have the other shoe today, the second of the two finalists in next month’s … [Read more...]

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Boston Mayor Would-Be Platforms

August 2, 2013 By massmarrier Leave a Comment

A platform-specific annotated subset of the campaign sites of the dozen running to be Boston's Mayor follows. The last post on the topic was likely too dense. Of course, this is a cross-post from Marry in Massachusetts. Yesterday, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: arroyo, Barros, boston, Clemons, conley, connolly, Consalvo, election, Golar Richie, mayor, preliminary, ross, Walcak, walsh, website, Wyatt, yancey

12 Boston Mayor Websites, So-So

August 1, 2013 By massmarrier Leave a Comment

After looking at the campaign websites for the dozen candidates for the Boston mayoralty, I was stunned by their mediocrity...and worse. In this cross-post from Marry in Massachusetts, I combined my subjective judgments with verifiable … [Read more...]

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School quality? School choices? Yes and yes.

October 16, 2012 By massmarrier 2 Comments

A bold move by two Boston City Councilors and four state Reps (all in Boston districts) could lead to huge improvements in the so-so city schools. It might also come to little. Councilor John Connolly, who heads the body's education … [Read more...]

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Councilor Connolly Goes Public on Schools

October 27, 2009 By massmarrier Leave a Comment

On the way to becoming a lawyer, he taught in a tough NYC school and then in a Boston charter one. He still believes in charters, not as the salvation but as proving grounds for prototypes to replicate.As well as the details of budgets, … [Read more...]

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Boston Votes: 2009 City Council Preliminary

September 24, 2009 By matt-in-boston Leave a Comment

The only thing that most pundits and prognosticators agreed upon was that the two incumbents, John Connolly and Steve Murphy, would come in first and second place in the prelim. Depending on who you asked, the order would flip. This was … [Read more...]

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What would happen if an election was held and nobody came?

November 8, 2007 By matt-in-boston 7 Comments

As always, the Dot Reporter has an excellent analysis of the race. About halfway down, they even throw in a mention of my dad, George O'Malley, manning his station at Florian Hall. My father stood at that poll for me, the Sheriff, and the … [Read more...]

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Ride home tonight via an inland route, with a stop @sweetgreen. The improvements to cycling infrastructure on Tremont and around the Boston Common and Public Garden vs. what was there a year ago are incredible. Bravo to @BostonBTD + groups like @bostonbikeunion! (1 of 2) #bospoli

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"Downing sees evidence of inequities every time he drops his son off at daycare -I know that (he) will get more opportunities than many kids in his classroom b/c ... of different racial background, different ethnic background ... That's wrong" https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/03/04/ben-downing-gubernatorial-race-candicacy-baker #mapoli

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3 Mar

When Scott Brown won in January 2010, Alan Khazei told us, “you can’t read too much into it. It’s a special election!”

Bad result but good to keep in mind.

Stephanie Murray@stephanie_murr

Looks like JEFF TURCO wins the race to replace former House Speaker Robert DeLeo in the 19th Suffolk District. JUAN PABLO JARAMILLO comes in second by just under 300 votes.

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3 Mar

Yikes.

Adam Bass@AdamBassWCCS

The idea of a Pro Life Trump supporter winning Suffolk 19 is not out of the ordinary. Winthrop is particular is much more right leaning that Revere. And Revere got severely out voted. When Capobianco had his story, that left you with two progressives. #mapoli

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Jo_ComerfordJo Comerford@Jo_Comerford·
2 Mar

.@CDCgov dir. @RWalensky, once part of MA's #COVID19 advsy board, said

"Now is not the time to relax the critical safeguards that we know can stop the spread of COVID-19 ... not when we are so close."

But @MassGovernor pushes to reopen.

Who is advising Gov. Baker now?

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