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The PTech connection?

Between late 2002 and early 2003, the now defunct Fleet Bank in Boston attracted the attention of federal anti-terrorist investigators.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 24, 2008

Former mayoral opponents Ray Flynn and Mel King discuss how far their city’s come, and how far it hasn’t, since 1983
To be sure, racism still exists. But the distance our culture has come in 50 years — from blacks fighting for basic civil rights to a black man running for the White House — is remarkable.
By ADAM REILLY | November 10, 2008

Women on the verge

Clinton die-hards have created a new-girls’ network bent on remedying decades of sexism by putting women in elected office
At next week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, Hillary Clinton’s delegates will get just about everything they’ve wanted — aside from the nomination of their candidate, of course.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 20, 2008

Our championship season

Brilliant us
This year’s New England Press Association annual awards dinner forsook the Park Plaza’s rubber chicken for the upper-scale poultry fare at the Marriott Copley Place. And the food’s not the only reason we’re glad we went.
By CLIF GARBODEN | February 13, 2008

Framed?

The Boston Police investigation of Stephan Cowans led to a wrongful conviction. Was it incompetent — or corrupt?
The Boston Phoenix has uncovered substantial new information about the Cowans case.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | February 07, 2008

Righting a staggering wrong

It is time for the US Attorney to investigate how and why the Boston police wrongfully convicted Stephan Cowans
US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan should launch an investigation into how that department managed to help convict the wrong man in the 1997 shooting of a Boston cop.
By EDITORIAL | February 06, 2008

Can Obama lasso the Bay State?

Once considered sure Clinton country, the Massachusetts primary is now a shootout
Nobody around here forgets that Deval Patrick swiped the gubernatorial nomination from the establishment-backed Tom Reilly.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | January 23, 2008

Menino’s hit list

40 potential candidates for the 2009 election who could take on the mayor — if they have the courage.
At a recent political event, Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino asked Robert Crane, the former long-time state treasurer, how many years he had held that office.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 28, 2007

Deadbeat universities

It’s time for higher education to pay its fair share of city costs. Plus, how to improve the Boston City Council.
No college should be allowed to cry poverty to get out of PILOT anymore.
By EDITORIAL | November 14, 2007

The million-dollar widow

Why is the Niki Tsongas juggernaut heading backward? Plus, ignoring global warming close to home.
The powerhouses of Massachusetts’s Democratic Party have rallied behind Niki Tsongas’s bid to succeed Fifth District US Congressman Marty Meehan.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | July 26, 2007

Power hungry?

The most powerful people on Beacon Hill want to stop the gay-marriage ban, but don’t have the votes
It’s remarkable how dramatically the state’s political leadership has changed since the most recent Constitutional Convention.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | June 07, 2007

Martha’s quick start

In her first four months as attorney general, Martha Coakley has shown political deftness — and a desire to play a major role in state policy
Martha Coakley told opponents of same-sex marriage this past week she would use the full force of her new office to fight their efforts.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | May 16, 2007

Death by handguns

What the murders at Virginia Tech and on Boston’s streets have in common
The only difference between the carnage wrought on the Virginia Tech campus and the ongoing plague of murders bloodying Boston’s streets is one of intensity.
By EDITORIAL | April 25, 2007

Who’s with whom

When John Kerry bowed out of the presidential sweepstakes, it freed Boston’s big Democratic brokers to find a favorite.
For Democratic presidential candidates, Boston is the ATM kiosk on the way to New Hampshire.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | March 29, 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

A split personality

Recent events suggest that there are two sides to Governor Deval Patrick
It is time for the new governor to smarten up.
By EDITORIAL | March 07, 2007

Deval’s dance with labor

Unions spent more to help get Deval Patrick elected than he did. But does that mean he’s in their pocket?
One of the most revealing currents political observers will soon be watching is how Governor Deval Patrick deals with organized labor.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 13, 2006

Too much information?

Revisiting the Globe ’s gang-truce scoop. Plus, Deval Patrick scolds the media, and the problem with Blue Mass Group’s success.
It’s not often that the Globe makes the Herald look restrained, but it happened earlier this month.
By ADAM REILLY | December 07, 2006

Council contortions

Boston’s city councilors are jockeying to be the next mayor — but that’s yesterday’s playbook
For more than a generation, being president of the Boston City Council was a springboard to the mayor’s office.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 06, 2006

The greatest story ever told

A former Boston Phoenix news editor tells what it was like to cover Goodridge , the Bay State’s history-altering same-sex-marriage decision
It was one thing to edit the Phoenix ’s coverage of the clergy-sex-abuse scandal as a Catholic.
By SUSAN RYAN-VOLLMAR | November 15, 2006

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