At-large city-council candidate Kevin McCrea posts a list of the 27 worst land deals arranged or allowed by the city, from luxury hotels in the Back Bay getting tax breaks to:
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By adamg - 9/4/05 - 12:39 pm
Only a few people showed up to protest at-large City Council candidate Roy Owens anti-gay (and anti-drug) march yesterday, but hardly anybody showed up to support Owens, either, eeka reports:
... Roy Owens did not succeed in sending the message that Roxbury (or Boston, or Massachusetts) is a place where messages of homophobia go unopposed. He and his group may well have marched after we left. Groups of four or five people walk around neighborhoods spreading misinformation all the time. A few people may listen. Most don't. ...
By adamg - 9/2/05 - 4:23 pm
Tomorrow at 11 a.m., at-large Council candidate Roy Owens plans a march, starting at Humboldt Avenue and Seaver Street, to protest things he considers major threats to children - including homosexuality.
Eeka is organizing a counter-protest:
By adamg - 8/19/05 - 8:21 am
Johnny works up a lather over news that city-council candidates will perform in a variety show at the Riverside Theatre Works in Hyde Park next month:
By adamg - 8/3/05 - 5:09 pm
At-large city council candidate Kevin McCrea spent the night in the apartment building being re-claimed from the druggies by the Rev. Bruce Wall. He reports on how easy it was to arrange a drug deal even with all the cops and media types everywhere:
By adamg - 7/30/05 - 8:47 pm
But so what? Carpundit says, wondering why the Herald paid so much attention to his parking tickets when he's paid them all off:
... I wish the Herald would stay on a real story, like the Mayor's web of influence, or the Turnpike Chairman's apparent corruption, or the Suffolk Sheriff's probable criminality. Parking tickets? Paid parking tickets? That's just not news. ...
By adamg - 7/29/05 - 4:50 pm
Kevin McCrea, running for an at-large seat, writes that fellow at-large candidate Sam Yoon used his exact words on housing issues at a recent ward meeting in Jamaica Plain:
By mythicflow - 7/14/05 - 8:56 pm
From Blog for Boston:
The Boston candidates who earned the DFA Boston endorsement by receiving greater than 75% support of the voting members are:
Sam Yoon for City Council At-Large Gibran Rivera for City Council District 6 Maura Hennigan for Mayor
By adamg - 6/21/05 - 8:29 pm
Give Maura Hennigan points for creativity: She challenged Tom Menino to debate in Latin. Well, she issued her challenge in Latin; one presumes she'd be amenable to a debate in English.
I await her next foreign-language challenge. In Etruscan, no doubt.
By adamg - 5/9/05 - 11:41 pm
Matt O'Malley, who blogged during his 2003 campaign for an at-large city council seat, is blogging again as he tries for an at-large seat this fall. He discusses three guys he met at Roche Bros.:
By adamg - 5/9/05 - 8:03 pm
Oh, OK: The headline on this cab outside South Station refers to this page-1 Globe story, which regular Universal Hub readers knew about last week.
By adamg - 5/7/05 - 10:26 pm
Kevin McCrea and two other Boston residents allege the city council has been holding illegally closed meetings on Boston Redevelopment Authority issues since at least 2003 (including one session on that controversial BU bioterrorism research lab) and have sued in state Superior Court to force the meetings open. McCrea's posted the complaint.
By adamg - 5/3/05 - 11:23 am
Trying to see if Tom Menino has a campaign Web site up yet (apparently not), I stumbled across these domains: meninomumbles.com, mumblesmouthmeninoformayor05.com and mumblesmeninoformayor.com (not linked because there's no there there). What's interesting is who the registered owner is (keep in mind that domain records can be forged):
Organisation Name.... The Menino Committee
Organisation Address. 10 Milk Street
Organisation Address. Suite 454
Organisation Address. Boston
Organisation Address. 02108
Organisation Address. MA
Organisation Address. UNITED STATES
By adamg - 5/3/05 - 9:14 am
It's election day in Brookline today; here are some campaign volunteers and voters outside the Putterham branch of the Public Library of Brookline this morning. That round sign is the marker beyond which campaigners are not supposed to pass (UPDATE: the polling place is to the people's left; it only looks like they're past the sign because of the angle from which I shot the photo).
One thing I still don't get, even after having covered small towns around here for 12 years, is why Massachusetts towns continue to hold municipal elections on various random days in the spring, instead of on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Or is it just basic New England "we've always done it that way" cussedness?
By adamg - 4/30/05 - 11:35 pm
The BIG Campaign is written by Kevin McCrea, the motorcycle-riding at-large city council candidate:
...Had a wonderful time at our campaign open house last night. Former City Councilor David Scondras came by and had many fine words of advice, and was in deep conversation with the reporters from the South End News. There were south end baseball coaches and commissioners in attendance, Globe staff, and many newcomers. Thanks to all for coming.
By adamg - 4/24/05 - 1:50 pm
That's Michael's judgment of City Councillor John Tobin's Web presence. On the one hand, it's cool that Tobin (who represents Jamaica Plain and West Roxbury) has a well designed, blog-based Web site (run by Steve Garfield). On the other hand, Tobin himself isn't actually blogging on the site - maybe a symptom of the fact that true blogging and discourse means taking a risk, and that's one thing politicians hate to do, Michael says:
... Perhaps, rather than getting politicians to blog, it is time for bloggers to enter politics. ...
Notes from Tobin's meeting with the Berkman bloggers last week
Video of his talk
Ed. note: Two years ago, Matt O'Malley actually blogged and dipped into the Wicked Good Conference to talk about Boston issues when he ran for an at-large council seat. So far, his 2005 Web site looks like any other generic candidate site, but one can hope there's more to come.
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