Educational expert and former Boston School Committee member Mary Tamer yesterday sued a collection of New York-based educational-reform groups, charging they fired her in September as their Massachusetts coordinator - in the middle of the battle over an MCAS ballot question - not because she wasn't doing her job well but because their CEO, former Providence mayor Jorge Elorza, has strong disdain for women, particularly older ones. Read more.
By adamg - 10/18/21 - 9:58 am
As the fallout over her most recent flier (scroll down, past the racist Easter-egg item), District 6 council candidate Mary Tamer today apologized - not long before she was scheduled for a meet-and-greet in Jamaica Plain, where the reaction has been, oh, a tad more negative than in West Roxbury. Read more.
By adamg - 10/13/21 - 11:29 pm
WBZ has the summary of the debate its Jon Keller moderated. More from NBC Boston. Read more.
By adamg - 8/21/21 - 7:34 pm
Retiring District 6 (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill) City Councilor Matt O'Malley made a trip over to the Jamaica Pond boathouse today to endorse Mary Tamer as his replacement over Kendra Hicks and Winnie Eke. Read more.
By adamg - 5/21/21 - 9:22 am
Three candidates for the District 6 City Council seat Matt O'Malley is giving up all called on landlord Monty Gold and his tenant, John Lincecum of Turtle Swamp Brewing, to drop their lawsuits against a proposed senior-citizen apartment building next door to the brewery. Read more.
By adamg - 5/5/21 - 5:18 pm
Mary Tamer of West Roxbury, who is running for the District 6 (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain) Council seat Matt O'Malley is leaving, says she's dropped out of a May 12 forum sponsored by Progressive West Roxbury/Roslindale and Roslindale Is for Everyone. Read more.
By adamg - 4/12/21 - 8:12 pm
Romilda Pereira says people had asked her to run for the city council, but that what convinced her to begin organizing was watching politicians and clergy descend on Olney Street, where 73-year-old Delois Brown was murdered Saturday as she sat on her front porch. Read more.
Election roundup: Even if Walsh leaves before Friday, we won't have to have four elections this year
By adamg - 2/26/21 - 9:33 pm
By adamg - 2/19/21 - 12:15 pm
District 6 (West Roxbury, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill) challengers Kendra Hicks of Jamaica Plain and Mary Tamer of West Roxbury will meet in an online forum at 7 p.m. on Monday, sponsored by he Greater Boston Young Democrats and Young Democrats of Massachusetts. Read more.
By adamg - 12/9/20 - 9:15 am
Mary Tamer, who served four years on the Boston School Committee, announced this morning she's running for the city council in District 6 (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury and a bits of Roslindale and Mission Hill). Read more.
By adamg - 7/11/12 - 8:21 pm
WBUR talks to Mary Tamer, a member of the School Committee who says she cannot believe how Superintendent Carol Johnson was going to just let former O'Bryant co-headmaster Rodney Peterson get
