The Dorchester Reporter notes that Yoon sent out a city-council endorsement e-mail from his new aerie in Washington that doesn't mention fl.
By adamg - Fri, 05/13/2011 - 7:13am
The Dig interviews Michael Flaherty on his bid to get back on the City Council and asks him if he stays in touch with the latter half of Floon, now down in DC.
By adamg - Fri, 10/15/2010 - 4:09pm
One of the schools Carol Johnson wants to eliminate is the Lee Academy pilot school in Dorchester, which Sam Yoon's kids went to before they moved to Washington:
Via Gin Dumcius.
By adamg - Sat, 09/11/2010 - 11:24am
Globe: City repair shop found in complete disarray - Study finds ineptitude, infighting, and waste.
By adamg - Sun, 06/27/2010 - 9:14pm
David Bernstein gets the scoop: The former city councilor and mayoral hopeful is leaving Dorchester for Falls Church, Va.
By rsiasoco - Thu, 03/11/2010 - 6:52am
Driving home last night, I caught part of an episode of On Point with Tom Ashbrook. The topic was the 2010 U.S. Census.
By adamg - Wed, 12/16/2009 - 12:52pm
The City Council today rejected a proposed limit on how long somebody can serve as mayor.
By adamg - Mon, 12/14/2009 - 10:44am
In its last week of existence, the current city council this morning is debating a proposal by outgoing at-large City Councilor Sam Yoon to limit Boston mayors to two terms.
By adamg - Thu, 11/19/2009 - 10:06am
Sam Yoon is asking his supporters to barrage city councilors with phone calls to convince them to vote on a measure to limit Boston mayors to two terms in office. The proposal currently sits in Maureen Feeney's committee on government operations - to which a proposal to keep the city-council president from becoming mayor if the sitting mayor resigns has also been consigned.
By adamg - Fri, 10/23/2009 - 12:05pm
The Man Who Would Be Deputy Mayor today endorsed Felix Arroyo, John Connolly, Tito Jackson and Ayanna Pressley. His reasoning, in e-mail to supporters:
By Bwilson - Thu, 10/15/2009 - 5:19pm
By adamg - Fri, 10/09/2009 - 8:08pm
Last week the potential deputy mayor told the Jamaica Plain Gazette that Kevin McCrea didn't get any more votes than Donald Duck would have. Oh, and Floon joked about the number of public-records and open-meeting complaints filed by McCrea - including, you know, the lawsuit against the City Council, Michael Flaherty, president, that McCrea won:
"We'll create a position called the Division of Kevin McCrea Information Requests," Yoon joked. Flaherty quickly added that a better name would be "McFOIA."
Guess what? McCrea tells the paper this week that Yoon called to apologize after the remarks showed up on the paper's Web site.
By adamg - Wed, 09/30/2009 - 7:57am
At yesterday's deputy-mayor press conference/rally, Michael Flaherty never introduced the guy standing right up there with him and Sam Yoon: Former state Senator Bill Owens, who had endorsed Yoon in August. But is the presence of the man defeated by Dianne Wilkerson in 1992 enough to increase Flaherty's vote getting in black neighborhoods?
Chris Lovett writes it could be the deciding factor in Flaherty's bid for mayor, because Yoon peaked in areas with traditionally low turnout in general city elections, such as Jamaica Plain, Back Bay and Allston/Brighton. Lovett talks to former city councilor Larry DiCara about turnout, especially in minority areas where Menino did particularly well.
By adamg - Tue, 09/29/2009 - 11:00am
As he introduced the man who would be his deputy mayor, Michael Flaherty predicted 40,000 to 60,000 more people would come to the polls in November - and that the majority of them would vote for change.
"About half the people who voted last Tuesday voted for change," Flaherty said at a City Hall Plaza press conference at which he and Sam Yoon outlined their proposed agenda - which includes dismantling the BRA, performance reviews across all departments and a 311 system.
Roughly 81,000 people voted in this month's preliminary elections, which saw incumbent Mayor Tom Menino take 51% of the vote, with Flaherty and Yoon splitting most of the rest.
By michaelflaherty - Mon, 09/28/2009 - 10:56pm
Dear Universal Hub,
Tomorrow, we are announcing our historic ticket to change Boston politics forever.
By adamg - Mon, 09/28/2009 - 10:20pm
File under: Floon!
Sam Yoon and Michael Flaherty have scheduled a press conference for 10:15 a.m. tomorrow. Dale Herbeck tweets it's to announce that Yoon will be "running" as Michael Flaherty's deputy mayor.
Herbeck says this is the "BIG development breaking in Boston mayoral race" that David Bernstein at the Phoenix teases he's writing up right this second. Gin Dumcius at the Dorchester Reporter tweets one of his sources has confirmed the story. UPDATE: Bernstein confirms after he got Twitter-scooped on his own story.
By adamg - Wed, 09/23/2009 - 1:54pm
Map showing which wards Menino and Flaherty led in and whether they got more or less than 50% of the vote there. Yoon and McCrea did not win any wards. NOTE: Although precinct lines are shown, the map is based on wardwide numbers.
Chris Lovett posts some numbers: Flaherty mostly carried South Boston, along with some precincts in Charlestown and Dorchester. Yoon carried nine precincts, in the West End, Fenway, Back Bay, JP and Allston, but as Lovett also notes, Back Bay and Allston had some of the lowest overall turnouts in the city.
Matt O'Malley takes the ward view, notes Menino took 19 or the city's 22 wards.
By adamg - Sat, 09/19/2009 - 9:22am
And what better place to put a "resort casino" than Suffolk Downs?
Unlike Sal DiMasi, who managed to quash casinos, successor Bob DeLeo favors them.
By adamg - Fri, 09/18/2009 - 3:46pm
Tomorrow, 25,000 phones across Boston will ring and people will pick up to hear Sam Yoon pleading with them to not hang up, because this is really Sam, live and in person, and please stay on the line for the city's largest ever teleconference: "They can
By adamg - Tue, 09/15/2009 - 4:41pm
But not enough to formally endorse him, the Jamaica Plain Gazette reports.
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