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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. (11/19/06)

Healey tells Mihos at debate: 'Keep your hands to yourself'
The campaign is almost over, and in some ways little has changed. Kerry Healey is still annoyed at Christy Mihos . Deval Patrick is still trying to play the peacemaker. And Mihos just doesn't quit. (11/5/06)

Patrick's fund-raiser policy shows shades of Romney
He left town for a fund-raiser with nary a mention of the event on his public schedule. (10/29/06)

The Washington connection
The people Deval Patrick has sought to help as a lawyer over the years are front and center in this year's campaign. But some of those people have received more attention than others. (10/22/06)

A picture is worth a thousand words, and multiple uses, too
The Globe recently ran a story showing how a Republican Governors Association ad for Kerry Healey included a picture that purported to show Healey standing by Mitt Romney's shoulder at the signing of the healthcare reform bill last spring. The photo in the ad was actually a picture of Romney and Healey signing a different bill, called Ally's Law. (10/15/06)

Kennedy's rival lauds Minutemen
The Republican challenging 44-year incumbent Senator Edward M. Kennedy spent much of last week in the desert, some 3,000 miles southwest of Massachusetts, watching the US border with Mexico for undocumented immigrants. On one day, Kenneth G. Chase spent almost six hours in a lawn chair in the shadow of a mesquite tree, scanning the horizon with three Minutemen, a ... (10/8/06)

Mihos remark on Healey's hero mystifies her campaign
It was one of the more memorable moments of the Sept. 25 debate: Independent Christy Mihos teased Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey for allegedly having called former acting governor Jane Swift her ``hero." (10/1/06)

Logo puts AG hopeful in a sticky situation
Every politician wants the soccer moms. But only one put the Massachusetts State Soccer Association logo on his bumper stickers. (9/24/06)