Author: MassCommons

True, most of the people receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom this year are part of “a group of people who are household names to Americans”, as Reuters reported last week.  So why is Cordy Tindell Vivian...

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has a long way to go before becoming mayor of New York City.  (As in, nobody’s voted yet.  Voters go to the polls next month for the primary; then there’s the general election...

For much of the last 50 years, “Southie Won’t Go” was the battle cry of school and housing segregationists in the nation’s largest white ghetto, but yesterday the voters of South Boston joined their...

In a word, hypocrisy. Since the Pilgrims and the Puritans arrived here nearly 400 years ago, Massachusetts has had a strong strain of “we know better than you, and we’re going to nag you until you agree” in its...

As provided for in the city charter, then-city council president Tom Menino became mayor of Boston on July 12, 1993 when Ray Flynn resigned to become U. S. ambassador to the Vatican.  (A good job, but not the Secretary of...