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- Cash carousel
Even though the dollar has taken an international whupping of late, there remains at least one place where the love of the greenback remains strong: Beacon Hill.
- Yoon or Flaherty
Boston voters will go to the polls in less than seven weeks to choose two candidates, out of the four now running, to face off against each other in November's mayoral election.
- Council contortions
For more than a generation, being president of the Boston City Council was a springboard to the mayor’s office.
- No side bets
Opponents of legalized gaming in Massachusetts are celebrating the death this past week of Governor Deval Patrick’s bill to license casinos, which was crushed by a seemingly decisive margin of more than two-to-one.
- Can Sam Yoon win?
Recent elections, as you may have heard, have been about change.
- The rumor mill
The energy in this year’s at-large race for Boston City Council is not to be found on the campaign trail.
- That dirty water
Much of the heart and soul of historic Boston is in danger of sinking into the marshy ooze on which it was built over the centuries.
- Seven for seven
While coverage of the Red Sox is always excessive (except for the sweet deals they get from the politicians, but whatever), the arrival of Daisuke Matsuzaka will make things even worse than usual.
- Madam Mayor Maureen?
This past week, with Bostonians’ attention focused on the presidential-primary drama north of the Massachusetts border, an opening salvo in the 2009 mayoral race may have been delivered.
- Campaign Trail of Tears
Mayoral candidates Michael Flaherty and Sam Yoon have looked a little like ambulance chasers of late, seizing on two recent tragedies for political gain.
- The pain hits home
With unsuccessful wars running in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the worst economic crisis in almost 80 years likely to get worse long before it gets better, Barack Obama will face challenges of historic proportions when he becomes the nation's 44th president next week.
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