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Financial fallout

The devastating wall street crisis has a potential silver lining — if you’re a Massachusetts politician looking for a foothold
The current US financial disaster will roil Massachusetts residents in myriad ways.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 08, 2008

A fitting tribute

Letters to the Boston editor: September 12, 2008

By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 10, 2008

Grand new party?

Letters to the Boston editor, March 28, 2008
There are a lot of great things happening in Massachusetts with the GOP.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | March 26, 2008

Mitt’s pit bull

Meet Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney’s teeth-baring press secretary
Flackdom rarely leads to fame. But Eric Fehrnstrom, the traveling press secretary for Mitt Romney, has already joined the pop-culture firmament.
By ADAM REILLY | February 01, 2008

That’s what he said

Barack Obama sounds just like Deval Patrick. Is that good or bad?
More than any other presidential candidate, Barack Obama owes his success to sheer rhetorical power.
By ADAM REILLY | January 17, 2008

Clinton and Obama: Watch California

Golden state polls might shape the rest of the race
Round one to Barack Obama, round two to Hillary Clinton, and just like that the retail politics is over, and the national slugfest begins.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | January 10, 2008

Old Mitt of the Mountain

How the Romney campaign crumbled and fell in the Granite State primary
Mitt Romney had a golden opportunity a week ago to do something about his inauthenticity problem, the one that even his most ardent supporters in New Hampshire recognize.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | January 09, 2008

The Left, left out?

Deval Patrick’s famed grassroots progressives are losing steam and influence
In the wake of the recent local elections, more and more observers are concluding that the energy that put Patrick in the Corner Office has come and gone.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 03, 2007

Voto para mi?

Why can’t a Latina candidate mobilize Eastie’s Hispanics?
In East Boston, hopes have been high that Democratic candidate Gloribell Mota might draw the neighborhood’s Hispanic residents into the political process.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | September 19, 2007

Fender bender

Last year, opponents thought they had killed auto-insurance reform for good. Its resurrection could be a headache for Deval Patrick.
Recent signs on Beacon Hill indicate to some that Deval Patrick is not quite the progressive, populist lefty that many of his supporters — and detractors — think he is.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | July 26, 2007

Letting the DA skate

Violence rises, prosecutions plummet, and nobody points a finger at Boston’s top law-enforcement officer
In Boston’s sharp-elbowed political world, when anything goes wrong assigning blame usually takes top priority.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | June 20, 2007

Leftward ho!

How liberal can the Herald’s editorial page get?
The Daily Worker has nothing to fear — yet.
By ADAM REILLY | June 06, 2007

Political turning points in the Cape Wind debate

By ADAM REILLY | May 30, 2007

The believer

Eric Goldscheider’s lonely crusade
Ben LaGuer is one of three things: the victim of massive injustice, a con man of staggering persistence, or a delusional head case.
By ADAM REILLY | May 02, 2007

Silent treatment

Solving the press’s credit problem
When next year’s Pulitzer finalists are announced, the Washington Post ’s coverage of dismal conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center will almost certainly make the list. But did the Post actually break the story? The deadliest sin: The Times' blind eye. By Adam Reilly
By ADAM REILLY | March 14, 2007

Healey quietly vetoes Bike Safety Bill

Unhappy trails
As everyone but the most oblivious knows, Boston has a reputation for being one of the most inhospitable American cities for cyclists.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | January 11, 2007

Go for the gelt

Romney woos the jews. Plus, The Mass GOP fails to anoint a leader; negative funding in ’06; and a slow start to the at-large city council field
Much has been made of how Mitt Romney has been courting evangelical-Christian support for his presidential ambitions. But Romney is also seeking friends — and, more important, money — among Jews.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | January 10, 2007

Good Deval, bad Deval

How will Governor Patrick work the press?
There are a few ways to interpret Deval Patrick’s weeklong million-dollar inaugural bash, which includes festivities throughout Massachusetts and concludes with Patrick’s swearing-in outside the State House on January 4.
By ADAM REILLY | January 08, 2007

Seven for seven

What’s news in the New Year? Plan on these stories dominating Boston’s media landscape.
While coverage of the Red Sox is always excessive (except for the sweet deals they get from the politicians, but whatever), the arrival of Daisuke Matsuzaka will make things even worse than usual.
By ADAM REILLY | December 29, 2006

The year women got beat up

Over the past 12 months you have been bombarded with stories of brutalized women. Chances are, you didn’t notice.
You don’t have to play Grand Theft Auto to be blind to violence against women. Victims of perception: How violence against women permeated our consciousness in 2006
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 20, 2006

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