A concerned citizen could take it no more and went out in the rain last night to chronicle the fact that one of those welcome signs still has Tom Menino's name on it.
By adamg - 3/15/14 - 10:29 pm
The Globe reports.
Mayor Walsh issued a statement:
I've never known Tom Menino to back down from a fight, and I don't expect him to start now. Mayor Menino has always been here for the people of Boston, and we're behind him today, 100%. Our thoughts and prayers are with him, Angela, their family and many friends.
By adamg - 1/22/14 - 5:20 pm
The Globe reports on the theft of a Hyundai Tucson rented by Angela Menino. Until Jan. 6, Tom and Angela Menino had a 24-hour BPD detail posted outside their Readville home.
By adamg - 1/14/14 - 8:44 pm
Tom Menino still gazes out at people heading toward one of the elevator banks and the zoning-board hearing room on the eighth floor of City Hall.
By adamg - 12/29/13 - 2:00 pm
The news that Tom Menino wouldn't run for mayor again not only changed the city's political dynamics but got pundits to pondering his legacy after 20 years in of
By adamg - 12/23/13 - 1:52 pm
The Atlantic considers 20 years' worth of "Thomas M. Menino, Mayor" signs in thousands of locations across this great city of ours and talks to a Walsh spokesperson, who says the Mayor to Be plans to replace just one sign - in the City Hall lobby.
“Mayor-Elect Walsh ran a campaign focused on improving education, strengthening public safety, and supporting economic development in Boston,” Norton told me. “Changing signage is not on the priority list right now."
By adamg - 12/22/13 - 9:09 am
The Globe reports on a fiefdom of bureaucrats overseen by a clueless board that cuts deals with developers to reduce payments for affordable housing - and then diverts millions from the funds it does collect to non-housing uses or just lets the money sit in the bank.
By adamg - 11/30/13 - 8:07 pm
As he's done for longer than many of the people in attendance have been alive, Tom Menino threw the ceremonial switch that lit up the Christmas tree in Adams Park in Roslindale - which was part of his city-council district when he suddenly became mayor
By adamg - 11/12/13 - 3:06 pm
WBZ reports that after saying no to Harvard, Tom Menino said yes to an appointment at BU.
By adamg - 11/5/13 - 10:18 pm
The mayor's office released this photo of Mayor Menino calling Marty Walsh to congratulate him tonight.
By adamg - 11/1/13 - 4:36 pm
Mayor Menino today named Superintendent William Evans as interim police commissioner following Ed Davis's resignation today.
By adamg - 10/27/13 - 8:21 pm
A big frog led a parade around the Frog Pond today during the city's Halloween pumpkin festival, which featured floating pumpkins, giant bubbles, kettle corn and a chance to go down a slide while dressed as a princess.
By adamg - 10/24/13 - 7:17 am
Open Media Boston reports the City Council voted 10-3 yesterday for at-large Councilor Felix Arroyo's "Invest in Boston" ordinance, under which banks that do business with the city will have to repo
By adamg - 9/28/13 - 11:57 am
If Menino had negotiated in good faith with the patrolmen instead of trying to lord it over them like he owns the joint, the contract never would have gone to an arbitrator, who then would never have ruled officers deserve raises the city can't afford,
By adamg - 9/16/13 - 9:24 pm
The Globe reports on the proposed tax breaks for companies that move into the ritzy tower being built atop the Ho
By adamg - 9/9/13 - 12:15 pm
Mayor Menino today released his proposal for getting 30,000 new housing units built in Boston over the next seven years at a combined public and private cost of $16 billion.
By Anonymous - 8/28/13 - 12:42 pm
In a national drive to reduce gun violence, No More Names, a project of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, began a nationwide tour on June 14 in Newtown CT on the six-month anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary.
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