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Good government run aground

Want to know what your city council does? Sorry, they can't tell you.
A seemingly simple attempt to provide Bostonians a small measure of good-government reform ran aground this past week.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 24, 2008

White-washed Mayor Menino

Is Mayor Menino getting White-washed? Plus, Sam Yoon's not-so-friendly skies
Striking parallels emerge between the upcoming mayor's race and the historic race of 1983.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | December 12, 2008

Photos: Hard Rock Cafe Obama party

Subdued election party at the Hard Rock Cafe for Obama

By: | November 05, 2008

Barack Obama: 44th President

Real-time coverage of Barack Obama's victory from Boston, Chicago, and Washington

By: BOSTON PHOENIX STAFF | November 07, 2008

Rise of the political bogeyman

Impotent on the issues, the GOP turns to scare tactics. Be afraid!
The Republicans appear headed to a second straight national pummeling, which will leave it marginalized in the federal government and an increasing number of state houses. Many party faithful are already noting the need for the GOP to move back toward the moderate center to survive. But the conservatives with microphones are heading down a very different path — and their followers, who now dominate the Republican Party, are going right with them.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 03, 2008

America's 25 scariest conservatives

The Phoenix ranks the individuals who will hold the most sway over the right-wing message machine in 2009, and beyond.
Imagine what will happen once the relatively sane folks now running the White House and the Republican National Committee pack up and go home?

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 03, 2008

In favor of politicians lying

Politics and other mistakes
While it’s true that candidates’ falsehoods, fibs, and fabrications make a columnist’s job easier, I could still eke out a living even if every politician in Maine suddenly became a fountain of factuality.

By: AL DIAMON | October 29, 2008

Palin could be the modern day Queen Esther

As Palin tours New Hampshire, signs of Biblical calling, talent on the stump, and a shot at 2012
Apparently, the idea of Palin as the Queen Esther for our time has made it to New Hampshire.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 24, 2008

City Hall domino effect

Sam Yoon starts the MayorMania
Political prospects are being reassessed inside the rumor-hungry walls of City Hall, all because of an invitation to a party 3000 miles away.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 22, 2008

Financial fallout

The devastating wall street crisis has a potential silver lining — if you’re a Massachusetts politician looking for a foothold
The current US financial disaster will roil Massachusetts residents in myriad ways.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 08, 2008

Granite up for grabs

Why McCain, Obama, and their supporters are swooping down on New Hampshire
Presidential candidates and their surrogates spend most of their time in high-population, close-contest areas.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | September 17, 2008

The enthusiasm gap

This election, with Obama having stoked pennant fever in Denver, it is the Dems who have cornered the excitement market
The selection of gun-shooting, anti-abortion, creationist, doctrinaire conservative Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as John McCain’s vice-presidential nominee has finally got the GOP’s conservative base excited.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | September 03, 2008

RNC 2008 Wrap-Up

Protest-to-podium coverage of the Republican National Convention from our reporter in St. Paul

By: ADAM REILLY | September 05, 2008

Opening-night jitters

The DNC’s primary colors
The Democratic National Convention started off with a strange vibe that might be summed up in one word: restraint.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 28, 2008

DNC 2008: Latest Photos

Protest-to-podium coverage from Denver. Updated daily.

By: JOEFF DAVIS | August 31, 2008

Live from Denver

Election 2008: Real-time updates from the Democratic National Convention

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 28, 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

The underdog

Sara Orozco thinks she can beat all-American GOP superstar Scott Brown. Can she convince anyone else?
Sara Orozco and Scott Brown, total opposites, are perfect candidates for a State Senate district with political bipolar disorder.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 13, 2008

Will race enter the race?

Dianne Wilkerson and Sonia Chang-Díaz don’t talk about the racial split in their Senate showdown, but it’s likely to make its mark
Two years ago, when Dianne Wilkerson inexplicably failed to submit the necessary signatures to get her name on the Democratic primary ballot for re-election as state senator, a 28-year-old upstart seized the opportunity.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | July 30, 2008

Senate shuffle

Massachusetts hasn’t had a Senate-seat vacancy in nearly 25 years. Now we may have two. Let the speculation begin.
Don’t count Ted Kennedy out just yet, but the prognosis immediately set minds thinking about the inevitable departure of Kennedy from the US Senate, where he has served since 1962.

By: DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 27, 2008

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