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...first large Southern city to elect a black mayor in 1973, Atlanta has had African-American leadership ever since. However, this year, a white city council member is leading in polls over three black challengers, causing some to fret that her election could lead to a setback for a "black agenda" of racial and social justice...
...post-racial" politics, the current Atlanta mayor's race is resisting attempts to paint it in crude black-and-white. For one, the cliche of black political organizers facing off against white corporate elites doesn't fit. The black candidates include a former real estate corporate vice president, a state senator, and a corporate-law attorney who was a Rhodes Scholar. The white candidate, re-elected city-wide four years ago, is a longtime community activist and the candidate most likely to be photographed with a bullhorn in her hand. This all comes at a time when Atlanta is struggling...
...there ever was a Black political machine, it was headed by Maynard Jackson, who was elected as mayor at age 35 in 1973, served consecutive terms and a single term in the 1990s. He endorsed every winning candidate before his death in 2003. Now the "Jackson machine" is largely history, Atlanta political insiders tell TIME, its membership dispersed since Jackson left office...
...held on Dec. 8. In the meantime, state lawmakers are considering whether to allow Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 to make an interim appointment to the Senate. Capuano, who spent his undergraduate years at Dartmouth and earned a law degree at Boston College, served as Mayor of Somerville for nearly a decade before being elected to the House in 1998. That House seat had previously been filled by Ted Kennedy’s nephew Joseph P. Kennedy II, who recently also debated running for his late uncle’s Senate seat. But Kennedy announced Sunday...
...change things up and add greater variety.” Despite the variety of yogurt options already available in Boston, there has been word that other players might be looking to make their way onto the crowded frozen treat landscape. According to a recent article in the Boston Globe, Mayor Thomas M. Menino has met with California-based frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry, which is rumored to be looking into locations in Back Bay, Downtown Crossing, and Fenway. —Staff writer Shan Wang can be reached at wang38@fas.harvard.edu...