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The people of Boston surely have many weighty things to consider in choosing their next mayor, but none more consequential than independent campaign expenditures. No, […]

Here’s an interesting measure of mayoral campaign performance: Who got the most votes for every dollar raised? As the chart below shows, the African-American candidates, […]

As the returns came in last night at John Connolly’s election party, there was not much reaction. The crowd in Dudley Square’s Hibernian Hall milled […]

Demographics is not destiny. For many in Boston—including Tom Menino, when I asked him the question some years ago—it was something of a matter of […]

Marty Walsh and John Connolly took the most votes and won the chance to face each other in a general election this November. At the end […]

Three polls released in three days, with strikingly similar results, suggest that we have a pretty good snapshot of where the Boston mayoral race stands—or, […]

One of the big topics of the Boston mayoral race has been whether state representative Marty Walsh is too much of a union guy to […]

It’s been a bad 24 hours or so for Charlotte Golar Richie. But you can’t say she hasn’t deserved it. Yesterday, Richie held a press […]

Moderating a candidates forum—especially among 11 competitors—does not give one the best vantage from which to assess the performances. Nevertheless, I have a few observations […]

Wednesday’s Boston Herald mayoral endorsements surprised a lot of campaign people, and not just because of the, um, unusual anti-endorsement of Marty Walsh. No, they were surprised […]

Mike Ross’s money is mostly behind a high-energy TV ad, showing him running through the streets of Boston handing out his plan for the city’s […]

Over the last couple years, it’s been mystifying how Harvard has all but become a dirty word in politics. During his presidential campaign, Mitt Romney, owner […]

A coalition of organizations want to make certain that women’s issues—serious, sometimes uncomfortable issues—get some attention during this year’s mayoral campaign. They’d also like to […]

From this point on, the mayoral candidates will be desperately seeking attention in the three-week sprint to the preliminary election. Today being Labor Day, three […]

Well, it took a little more than 24 hours for the Boston Herald/Suffolk University/NECN consortium to fold. As I wrote yesterday, that group announced yesterday […]