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Republican wins sole contested legislative election

BOSTON – A Republican won the only competitive special legislative election held in Massachusetts Tuesday as Weymouth's Patrick O'Connor defeated Hull's Joan Mechino for an open Senate seat. But the pair are likely to face off again in November, when the Plymouth and Norfolk district

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Old school outreach and the limits of progressive politics

If only the outwardly progressive candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for the Suffolk and Middlesex state senate seat had looked to history, one of their own might have begun a new Boston dynasty. The special election earlier this month to replace outgoing state Senator Anthony Petruccelli of East Boston will

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Apartment tower approved for Boston’s West End

BOSTON – A planned apartment tower near TD Garden in the West End won approval from the city's development agency Thursday, capping a nearly six-year effort to create hundreds of new apartments in the neighborhood between North Station and Massachusetts General Hospital. The scaled-back project calls for a slightly