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A charisma shortage
Martha Coakley strolled into a union hall in Dorchester Wednesday waving, a little stiffly, to the membership of the Service Employees International Union Local 1199.
An agency in turmoil
Angelo McClain’s homecoming was not supposed to be this rocky. When the longtime social services director - who worked at a caseworker in Roxbury before making his name as a children services executive in New Jersey - was named commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, it was viewed as a happy occasion. But he is spending most of ...
Alimony agony
Rudolph Pierce thought it was time to retire. But as a veteran member of the Massachusetts bar - and a former judge - he must have known that shedding the burden of alimony would never be so easy.
Poverty’s driven but solitary foe
Robert Coard’s funeral at Emmanuel Church yesterday drew a telling mix of the powerful and not-so-powerful - fitting for an antipoverty activist far more comfortable than most in the corridors of power.
A lasting gift in honor of a fallen Marine
Joan Jose Duran was a guy who was loved for his optimistic spirit. He once served as the punter for the undermanned Boston Latin School football team, and “he wasn’t actually a good punter,’’ said his teammate, Dan Weissman. “But he had this can-do attitude. I never heard him say he couldn’t do anything. He always believed he could get ...
The gift of opportunity
Robert V. Ward Jr. has a unique perspective on the war between Southern New England School of Law, which seeks to become part of the state university system, and its competitors in Boston, who oppose the idea.
Getting his party started
Tito Jackson has to be leading the only City Council campaign that has its own dance.