Connors’s Reign
CIVIC 1978–1985 Advertising Club of Boston 1978–1985 New England Broadcasting Association 1990–present American Ireland Fund 1998–2006 Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce 1998–2008 Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston 1999–present Jobs for Massachusetts 2007–present Camp Harbor View Foundation 2009–present Massachusetts Competitive…
Jack Connors: Heir Band
John FishCEO, Suffolk ConstructionHOW HE’S LIKE JACK: Fish speaks often about Connors being a mentor. He sits on roughly a dozen local boards, is a bigtime player in the business community, and can get Mayor Menino on the horn whenever…
Is Jack Connors the Last King of Boston?
WHAT A GROUP. That’s all Sister Gail Donahue could think. For 49 years she’d been a teacher and administrator at Catholic schools in the Boston Archdiocese, and now to have two well-known business leaders — Liberty Mutual’s Ted Kelly and…
Team Effort
IN A PARKING LOT in Washington, DC, in the chill of late February 2008, Red Sox chairman Tom Werner caught up to Larry Ronan, the team internist, as he waited to board the bus. "Larry, I want you to think…
Scott Brown is the Most _________* Man In America
THE SEARCH FOR SCOTT BROWN CONTINUES. Minutes after President Obama signs the House’s version of universal healthcare into law, the Senate Republicans meet for a lunch in a Capitol anteroom just off the Senate floor. They are a testy bunch….
Politics: Scott Brown’s U.S. Senate Win
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2009It begins — or begins to end — with a secret that is hard to keep. In a bland three-story building on Second Street in Washington, DC, pollsters for the National Republican Senatorial Committee decipher a new…
A Very Civil War – WGBH – WBUR – Boston public radio stations – Jon Abbott – Paul La Camera
It looms over everything: the Mass. Pike to the north, Market Street to the west, the whole of scruffy Brighton in its shadow. The headquarters of public broadcasting behemoth WGBH reaches six stories high and spans two city blocks—an industrial…
Running Scared : Martha Coakley : Massachusetts Senate Candidates
I wanted to like Martha Coakley. I wanted to be swept into the narrative, 50 years in the making, in which Senator Ted Kennedy’s efforts for equality culminated in a worthy successor, a nice Catholic girl from the Berkshires who…
In the Shadow of Woburn
The hearing is not going well for Jan Schlichtmann. He’s back in Woburn, the town that scarred him, drove him to madness, altered him forever, and then, still later, made him famous. Woburn has changed a great deal in the…
Q: What's the Best Way to Turn Around a Young Street Thug? A: Maybe with a Former Street Thug.
Vito Gray talks about the day he almost killed a man in a voice not much above a whisper. He’s usually more authoritative than this: From the Timberland boots he favors to his black, shaved head and broad, imposing physique,…
