They hope Patrick sees youth as priority

The talk since Deval L. Patrick's election as the state's first black governor has been filled with hope that his rise will be a chapter-closing bookend to the reputation for racial hostility that Massachusetts has worn since the Boston busing crisis of the 1970s. (Full article: 648 words)

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