HOPEFUL: DOUG BENNETT
REPRESENTING The North End
AGE 33
THEME SONG "Knockin' On Everyone's Door"
IN HIS WORDS "I am a man of the people. . . . [I] will work hard for you to create new jobs and a better quality of life for all Bostonians . . . not new taxes."
IN OUR WORDS Doug Bennett is not completely insane. Despite his gadfly tactics (he was recently asked to leave a City Council meeting for causing a disturbance) and tedious and odd positions on everything from crime to school busing, the former Nantucket selectman, Army reservist, and union carpenter — and current Suffolk County Criminal Trial Court case specialist — prudently believes that pressing flesh is the key to winning local elections. Last year he vowed to knock on 100,000 doors before Election Day, and to date he's nearly three-quarters finished.
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- Final four?
Some of Boston's savviest political insiders were confident of one thing going into last week's preliminary election: the top four finishers in the at-large City Council race would not be the same quartet to actually win those four seats in November.
- For Boston City Council
Boston city councilors enjoy relatively high political profiles, but in reality they labor under the tight constraints of a strong-mayor system.
- The velvet rope of prejudice?
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- The new black
When the Theater District's Cure Lounge ejected a group of black Harvard and Yale alums and grad students last month, many saw it as the latest confirmation of Boston's racist core.
- In the Shadow of Walmart
Only one company on earth summons fevered joy and outrage by merely showing interest in a market.
- Letters to the Boston editors, August 26, 2011
The use of the term "minority" is outdated and now a bit offensive.
- Ayanna Pressley is a rising political superstar — whose career might be over by year's end
Even as she faces the very real possibility of defeat this November, Pressley is receiving support and gushing praise from most of Boston's political figures.
- The fight for Dorchester's open city council seat is more like a school election than a modern political one
The Dorchester district that Maureen Feeney has represented since 1993 is now perhaps the most diverse in the city — and of all the council districts, its percentages of white, black, Asian, and Hispanic residents most closely reflects Boston as a whole.
- District 7 endorsement: Vote Tito
Thirty-five-year-old Tito Jackson, a former economic development official in Governor Deval Patrick's administration, is the candidate most deserving of District 7's votes.
- Sluts for justice
On Saturday, Boston joins the national SlutWalk movement, demonstrating solidarity to fight "slut shaming," a common response to sexual violence.
- No more Mr. Nice Council
By announcing his campaign for city council, Michael Flaherty immediately unleashed the bitter side of Boston politics.
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