Thursday, April 5, 2012
The I-Team at WBZ reports that "week after week," Clerk Magistrate Maura Hennigan, a well-known JP resident, takes walks and campaigns instead of being at the courthouse.
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Thursday, April 5
An investigation by WBZ appears to show that JP's Maura Hennigan, who is the elected Clerk Magistrate of Suffolk County Criminal Court, has a habit of not being at the courthouse during work hours. The "I-Team" filmed Hennigan walking her dog around Jamaica Pond and campaigning during times when her office said she was in meetings. "It's a pattern we see week after week," said reporter Kathy Curran in a segment that aired Wednesday. Hennigan, who is from a well-established political family and used to be the district city councilor for JP, explained her whereabouts by telling WBZ that half of her job is community outreach. For the full story, please visit WBZ's Web site.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Dr. Jill Stein won the most votes among the handful of Green-Rainbow ballots that were cast in JP precincts last Tuesday.
Jamaica Plain residents cast 15 votes in last Tuesday's Green-Rainbow Party presidential primary. Almost all of them were for Dr. Jill Stein, a former candidate for governor. Independent voters were allowed to vote Green-Rainbow, so the votes aren't all necessarily registered members of the Green-Rainbow Party. No state-wide figures for the Green-Rainbow party were easily available. The Green-Rainbow party itself hasn't been able to get state-wide numbers, according to party member John Andrews. He said there has been a lack of cooperation from the state's Election Division and a "blackout" on Green-Rainbow coverage by the Globe. "Eight days after the Massachusetts primary, we still don't know what happened. This not only damages our …
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Efficiencies in choosing which precincts would get Chinese and Vietnamese ballots, plus shifting costs to the state for state ballots, would create the city's savings.
A new plan to more efficiently choose which Boston precincts get Chinese and Vietnamese ballots — and shift costs of some ballots to the Commonwealth — could save Boston $300,000 a year. City Council on Wednesday passed a resolution on the matter, after study by the Committee on Government Operations, chaired by District 6 City Councilor Matt O'Malley. A 2010 state law requires that Chinese or Vietnamese ballots be used in certain precincts. City councilors are seeking to amend that law to make the state shoulder the financial burden of creating bilingual ballots for state elections. "This bill will allow the city to save hundreds of thousands of dollars while providing more bilingual Chinese and Vietnamese ballots to people who need …
Law professor Elizabeth Warren of Cambridge is expected to be the Democratic nominee to face Sen. Scott Brown, R, in the fall election. She visited Ula Cafe on Tuesday to speak with local people hurt by the financial crisis.
Law professor and bankruptcy expert Elizabeth Warren sought to highlight her credentials as a consumer watchdog in a visit to Jamaica Plain on Tuesday. The Cambridge Democrat is the presumptive nominee to face Sen. Scott Brown, R, in the fall. She met at bustling Ula Cafe with people facing foreclosure who are being helped by the JP nonprofit City Life/Vida Urbana. "Families across this Commonwealth have been hammered in the financial crisis," Warren said in remarks to the press after the event. "It's important to remember that this crisis started one lousy mortgage at a time." JP's Heather Gordon, whose Mendell Way home has been in foreclosure since 2008, was among those who told Warren their stories. About 13 people sat at tables in the …
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Ula Cafe
284 Amory St, Jamaica Plain, MA
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
The Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate stopped in JP on Tuesday to talk to people whose homes are in foreclosure.
Democratic Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren came to JP on Tuesday and talked to folks whose homes are in foreclosure. Warren, a Harvard Law professor and bankruptcy expert, listened to clients of the JP-based advocacy group City Life/Vida Urbana tell their stories at Ula Cafe. Warren is the presumptive Democratic nominee to face incumbent Sen. Scott Brown, a Republican, in the fall election. In this video clip she talks about how the financial crisis "started one lousy mortgage at a time." Standing beside her in the video are, on the left, City Councilor Felix Arroyo and, on the right, City Councilor Matt O'Malley.
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Ula Cafe
284 Amory St, Jamaica Plain, MA
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Candidates received a total of 557 votes, with former Gov. Mitt Romney taking 54 percent of the vote. That's lower than statewide, where he garnered 72 percent.
Jamaica Plain residents cast 557 votes in Tuesday's GOP presidential primary. More than half of them were for former Gov. Mitt Romney. Independent voters were allowed to vote Republican, so the votes aren't all necessarily registered Republicans. JP's choices differed from the state-wide ones, as can be seen by this chart. Statewide figures are from the Associated Press. JP voted more heavily for Ron Paul and less heavily for Rick Santorum. For detailed precinct-by-precinct totals, see the chart below. The number at left is ward-dash-precinct:
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney finished Super Tuesday strong, winning four states and leading in two more at by 12 a.m. Wednesday.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney finished Super Tuesday strong, winning four states, and leading in two more, including a neck-and-neck race with contender Rick Santorum in Ohio, where a recount seemed possible. Speaking to a crowd of roughly 400 at the Westin Copley Place Tuesday evening, Romney congratulated his rivals Santorum and Newt Gingrich for their victories in the rest of the nation. He thanked Ron Paul for his “…steadfast commitment to our Constitution.” Romney continued with comments on the economy, taking quick focus on President Barack Obama. “To the millions of Americans who look around and can only see jobs they can’t get and bills they can’t pay, I have a message: You have not failed.” He said to cheers. “This …
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10 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Former Gov. Mitt Romney, as expected, won the Bay State's Republican primary, according to the CNN, NBC and the Associated Press.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney, as expected, won the Bay State's GOP presidential primary, according to several media outlets. In Boston he blew away his competition, taking 69 percent of votes. CNN, NBC and the Associated Press all called Romney the winner statewide shortly after polls closed at 8 p.m. His prize: The highest share of the state's 41 delegates to the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Massachusetts will allocate delegates on a proportional basis, according to Huffington Post. Candidates with at least 15 percent of the vote get a share of the delegates that roughly matches his percentage of the vote. Romney voted in Belmont earlier today, where he and his wife Ann are longtime residents. Our sister Patch in Belmont has video …
Starting up a long-idle boiler created smoky conditions. Polls were shut down for about 30 minutes.
A smoking boiler in the former Agassiz School caused firefighters to evacuate poll workers and voters. The smoke forced the evacuation from about 3:45 to 4:15 p.m., said Patricia Craffey, warden of Ward 11, Precinct 9. "We had a little bit of excitement, because it's been a boring day," she said. "We had to get out fast." The Agassiz has been largely vacant since closing in June 2010. When boilers, which are used to heat buildings, are restarted after long periods of inactivity, they can produce smoke. Steve MacDonald of the Boston Fire Department said it didn't take long for firefighters to search the building, find the cause of the smoke and fix the situation. He said smoke people may have seen coming from the roof of the building was …
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Agassiz Elementary School
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A voter and her dog were at the polling station for Ward 11, Precincts 7 & 8.
Samson, a well-groomed three time blue-ribbon-winning Welsh Pembroke Corgi sat obediently as his owner, Janet Lang, cast her ballot around noon on Super Tuesday. Lang, a Jamaica Plain resident since 1977, showed him off as he sat quietly in the middle of the auditorium stage of the English High School, where voting for Ward 11, Precincts 7 & 8 took place. Bundled in her jacket and fleece cap, she turned back after casting her vote, and called “Heel,” to which the show-dog sprung up and returned to her side. The poll workers looked up and quietly smiled at the elderly voter and her dog as they left the ballot area, then returned to their work. There were no other voters in the station. “Reelecting the president!” Lang said, was the most …
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The English High School
144 McBride St, Jamaica Plain, MA
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pete hanley
7:11 am on Sunday, April 8, 2012
i wonder what the AG is doing about all this, not only the daily walks around the pond but also her using court workers to do campaigning in her office. Is ther no integrity left???? more ›