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Proponents argue that much of the city has been disenfranchised over the last 30 years--that only districts with high voter turnout (white Irish and Italian precincts) are represented. Minority communities, like Roxbury and Mattapan, and isolated communities such as Charlestown, Allston-Brighton, and Roslindale have been excluded under the present system, they contend. But critics of the proposal, generally from South Boston, Dorchester, Hyde Park and West Roxbury, have argued that they should not be punished for civic-minded voting habits...
McCormack, despite living in the rental neighborhood of Brighton and therefore endorsing a pro-tenant position, has the advantage of a good political name (it is spelled the same as the late Speaker of the U.S. House, John McCormack, and his nephew, former city councilor and lieutenant governor, Edward McCormack) and a good connection (he worked for Attorney General Francis X. Bellotti). Bolling, the only Kevin Seven candidate with a chance, is the strongest Black candidate and has the substantial support of his father, a former State Rep., and his brother, a current State Rep. Both Bolling and McCormack...
TWICE LAST WEEK, student journalists left their newsrooms and went to court. On Monday, Boston College's newspaper filed suit against the B.C. Campus police in Middlesex County Superior Court. On Friday, four editors of Boston University's daily were arraigned in Brighton on trespassing charges after they refused to leave the B.U. police headquarters. Both publications seek the same right: access to a log of daily police activities to confirm recent reports of rapes on their campuses...
...Brighton County District Court scheduled the trial for November...
...five were taken to a Boston Police station, where they were released on bail. They will be arraigned in Brighton District Court at 9 a.m. today...