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...Boston origin was seen as a liability in his first campaign, when he won a close race against Melvin H. King, who would have been the first Black elected Mayor of Boston. But in this year's preliminary elections, Flynn's highest victory margins were in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan, predominantly Black areas of the city where Tierney has campaigned very little...
Flynn also takes credit for opening new police stations and for expanding the police force in these areas. But City Councilor James E. Burn, who represents Dorchester and Mattapan, says Flynn is taking credit for community sacrifice and hard work. "It's been like pulling teeth, trying to get support for an extended police force," says Yancey...
Councilor Charles Yancey of the Dorchester and Mattapan section of Boston said the two key issues for minorities are housing and public safety and that the incumbent mayor has focused city resources into less urgent problems...
...optimistic outlook is controversial," he said. "It was interesting in that the people who were most isolated, like those in South and East Boston, thought race relations had improved. Those who were less optimistic lived in mixed racial neighborhoods, like Mattapan or Jamaica Plain...
Physicians are disappearing from depressed areas such as Mattapan and South Boston, and community health centers are folding--including one in Roxbury this year, SPH Dean of Students Helen Pommer says. "General Practitioners are a dying breed...