Comedian Jimmy Tingle, who grew up in Cambridge, is one of two candidates running for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.
His sense of humor and personality may end up overshadowing either of the two Democratic candidates for governor, Jay Gonzalez and Bob Massie, whom Lowell Sun columnist Peter Lucas describes as "about as exciting as watching a two-car funeral."
Recent obituaries are becoming increasingly candid about how a loved on died, even if it was by suicide or drug use or connected to mental illness.
A story in Seven Days details one Burlington, Vermont man's decision to disclose in the obit that his 57-year-old wife killed herself after three years of struggling with depression and anxiety and eventually psychosis.
