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A month's worth of Joan Vennochi
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The race is on for Birmingham's post
(12/4/2001)
IT'S NOT ALL business as usual in the Massachusetts Legislature. A prolife woman Democrat is campaigning to be the next Senate president.
The battle to own the Sox
(11/27/2001)
BARBARIANS AT home plate. How much will one of them pay to watch the Boston Red Sox from the owner's box? Binding bids for the Yawkey Trust's controlling interest in the team must be submitted by noon, Thursday. A new owner could be chosen by early December. In those simple facts swirl a virtually recession-proof tale of money, power, sports, hardball business, and politics.
The state budget? Just get it done
(11/15/2001)
LET'S SEE. Do you wait for slow-moving legislative leaders to finalize a long overdue budget plan - or do you go ahead with scheduled brain surgery to remove a slow-growing tumor? Life is full of tough choices; only in Massachusetts would that be one of them.
Don't let it be the terrorists again
(11/13/2001)
BRIGHT, BLUE SKY. Ravenous flames, evil smoke. Chaos. Death. Yesterday morning, the terror was back. It returned in a sudden, fiery flash after American Airlines Flight 587 lost an engine and crashed to earth, burning its way through a Queens, N.Y., neighborhood on a quiet holiday morning. Were terrorists responsible, as they were for the Sept. 11 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center? Federal officials responded cautiously to the obvious question, saying they could not rule any specific cause in or out.
An electoral feast for third-termer Menino
(11/8/2001)
FEAST YOUR eyes, Bay State voters. These are your leaders, pictured at lunch Tuesday, reveling in the remains of their day - election day. What a smug, content, and self-satisfied lot they are, stuffed with a hearty meal and the confidence that comes from knowing that the political status quo prevails yet again in Massachusetts.
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