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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.
Stuart case still felt
Twenty years ago today - tonight, actually - as Charles Stuart drove his pregnant wife, Carol, home from a birthing class at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, he stopped the car in Mission Hill, pulled out a gun, and shot her to death. He also wounded himself, a key element in the hoax that would consume the city for the next ...
A colonel’s new mission
To many observers, Bonnie Keefe-Layden might seem like a walking contradiction. Not only does she run one of the major social service providers in Central Massachusetts - Rehabilitative Resources Inc. known as RRI - she retired this month as a full colonel in the US Army Reserve, wrapping up a military career spanning 33 years.
Sticking to his style
Michael Capuano was hanging out in the heart of friendly territory when he walked into Kelly’s Diner one morning this week.