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State Sen. and city councilor Saundra Graham, angry over a redistricting fight on Beacon Hill, said last night she would leave the Democratic party and register as an-Independent...
...Democratic Club went to Beacon Hill as part of an "effort to get Harvard-Radcliffe students involved in local affairs," Velona said, adding the visit would help lay the "groundwork" for club participation in local issues later this year...
Sullivan said yesterday he misses Cambridge, but added that his new role has "plenty of excitement." A top priority at the moment is helping the Hub find its way out of a pressing financial crisis, he says, adding that most attention is focused on Beacon Hill, where state legislators are considering the "Tregor Plan" to authorize new city borrowing and bail Boston...
These days, the paper appeals to a demographic bracket. Its readership has largely crossed the Charles, moved into townhouses on Beacon Hill or Bay Village or elsewhere in the Back Bay. They have good grooming habits, and politics is not such a big thing because, after all, this is a damn nice townhouse. There are still many points of common agreement--the New Right is outrageous (this week's paper includes two accounts of an anti-abortion conclave); capitalism has its excesses (a very good story about the seamy business at an aerosol factory that ended with three workers dead...
Much of their information comes from an unmanned Pioneer spacecraft. Since it began orbiting Venus three years ago, it has studied the planet's weather by photographing changing cloud patterns and lifted its veil with a radar beacon, mapping 93% of Venus' shrouded surface. Though the planet has continent-size land masses topped by a mountain a mile higher than Everest, it does not seem to be rent by the earth's major mountain builder: continental drift. Rather, the key tectonic process appears to be volcanism, accompanied by lightning, flows of lava and an otherworldly version...