The Dorchester Reporter reports on an at-large councilor debate in Dorchester on such issues as the price of rent and BU's biolab.

While the flyer doesn't say so, I think this is only for the at-large candidates.

The RoxVOTE forum is co-sponsored by the Franklin Park Coalition,  Millions More Movement of Boston, and Democracy for America: Boston.

Somebody apparently mistook Matt O'Malley's city-council campaign headquarters on Washington Street for a drive-through early this morning.

Nancy watched the debate between Tom Menino and Maura Hennigan last night and reports she was stunned when Menino told one questioner that the answer to his dirty street was to work with his neighbors to petition the city for a cleanup. "That's just inexcusable!" she says. He's the mayor - he should have just taken down the guy's street and had the DPW schedule a cleanup, she says. That, coupled with what she considered his poor answers to other questions, means she'll be filling in an oval next to Hennigan's name in November.

Whites may now make up a minority of the city's population, but you wouldn't know it from the finalists in Tuesday's vote: Of the eight people advancing to the final election in November, six are white Irish Catholics (citywide results). Granted, one of them, Matt O'Malley, ran Andrea Cabral's successful campaign for sheriff last year, but still, diversity won't be a hallmark of the next crop of at-large councilors - if the current lineup holds, we'll wind up with three Irish Catholics and one Hispanic (in other words, status quo).

Adam reports on his visit to his polling place today:

As I approached the polling location, I was accosted by supporters of about six or seven candidates, making a last minute pitch for their guy (I didn't see anyone lobbying for the female candidates, unfortunately). I have some vague recollection about laws restricting lobbying near the voting booth, but apparently in boston it's okay up to about 3 inches from the entrance to the building. ...

Adam explains why he's voting for Felix Arroyo and Matt O'Malley in tomorrow's at-large preliminary election - and why he's still not sure what to do (if anything) with his other two votes.

Chris, meanwhile, has compiled a list of the positions taken by the at-large candidates on various issues (it's a PDF file) and points to the Dorchester News's profiles of the candidates.

We are technological troglodytes. Not only don't we have cell phones, our kitchen phone is a mid-'70s rotary-dial wall-mounted Bell System phone, the sort you could easily use as a murder weapon ("Bell System property Do not use as a murder weapon" is imprinted on the receiver).

Last night, I answered the phone. It was Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea J. Cabral!