Coffee-loving reporter—is that redundant?—covering Bay State politics and Boston neighborhood news from beautiful Beacon Hill.
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I cover the following Patches: Back Bay, Beacon Hill (Massachusetts politics), Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Framingham, Jamaica Plain, North End, Roslindale, South End and West Roxbury.
This week's most-read: Warren doing Warren, a lawsuit against the state's attorney general, and a poll about MA November ballot questions.
Three stories you might have missed this week.
Meet the candidates here.
Make your voice heard. What does the city do well? Where can it do better?
How Gov. Charlie Baker responded, what we know so far and what it means.
Please share to help track the man down.
Also: Cat lost for 54 days returns; Holy home; AG sued over 'copycat' assault weapons; 'Calculated, escalating' child sexual assaults; More.
Places in Cambridge to watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off in the first debate, Sept. 26.
Here's where people are gathering to watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump square off in the first debate, Sept. 26.
Drivers and walkers, be aware!
And if that's not impressive enough, turns out she finished her 10th Boston Marathon this year, too.
A taxi group is driving Gov. Charlie Baker and other state officials to court over the new law regulating mobile ride-hailing services.
Over 2 dozen arrested, more than 33 kilos of heroin seized.
Your events calendar for Sunday, September 25.
The event will transform a DTX street into a Parisian cafe, complete with street musicians and, of course, lots of food options.
Worcester, other Massachusetts-based firearms retailers among those signed on to the National Shooting Sports Foundation lawsuit.
No, John Stumpf didn't leave his job with the bank, as Elizabeth Warren so sharply suggested. But he is leaving one post.
The Harvard Crimson reported this is the first year of losses since the Recession's end.
Even if that review is, "History, Schmistory. Fenway is an outdated dump of a park."
Nicholas Rovinski, along with two Massachusetts men, allegedly conspired to behead a blogger and to attack police.
