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Vanishing Boston

A field guide to Boston's 'lasting' treasures — to be enjoyed before they're razed in favor of chain stores
The Boston we live in today will be gone someday, but there's still time to get to know it in all its uniqueness.
By MIKE MILIARD, ADAM REILLY, AND CHRIS FARAONE | November 28, 2008

She's back - almost

Why Clinton's appointment is good for Obama. Plus, better Boston graduates.
Why Clinton's appointment is good for Obama. Plus, better Boston graduates.
By EDITORIAL | November 24, 2008

The PTech connection?

Between late 2002 and early 2003, the now defunct Fleet Bank in Boston attracted the attention of federal anti-terrorist investigators.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 24, 2008

Free pass on gay hatred?

Turning a blind eye
Outside observers have been quick to criticize any signs of anti-Semitism connected to the new Roxbury mosque.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 24, 2008

Photos: Menino's Mosque

Photos of the mosque in Roxbury and people involved in its creation

By PHOENIX STAFF | November 26, 2008

Menino's mosque

The bizarre story behind the construction of Boston's most controversial building
Most locals concede that getting anything of substance accomplished in Boston is a Herculean task.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 24, 2008

Timeline of events

How the ISBCC turned from a place of worship to a symbol of controversy

By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 19, 2008

Inside Job

The role of the BRA's Muhammad Ali-Salaam in the mosque's development
The conflict of interest between Ali-Salaam's role with the BRA and his close association with the mosque developers is captured in a transcript of a Feb. 2001 meeting.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 19, 2008

Young guns

Menino touting Boston’s gun-violence “best practices”
This past Wednesday at the Capital Hill Hilton in Washington, DC, mayors from across the country were scheduled to sit down to a special session and learn how to combat youth gun violence.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 27, 2008

Mad dissent

NYOIL at Northeastern
Few rappers practice what they teach, but Staten Island’s NYOIL — a former member of the early-’90s outfit the U.M.C.’s and current revolutionary rap stalwart — acts as loudly as he rhymes.
By CHRIS FARAONE | October 15, 2008

City Hall domino effect

Sam Yoon starts the MayorMania
Political prospects are being reassessed inside the rumor-hungry walls of City Hall, all because of an invitation to a party 3000 miles away.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | October 22, 2008

Words as music

Alan Lupo was many things — among them, the best metro columnist Boston may ever see
He originally set out to be a jazz critic.
By MARGARET DORIS | October 09, 2008

Test October 8 Content

Test Test Test Test

By CARLY CARIOLI | October 08, 2008

Blunt object

The political fight over a November marijuana-reform ballot question has sparked a Battle of the Bong
Question 2 supporters claim Massachusetts district attorneys committed “at least 15 violations of Massachusetts campaign-finance and election laws” in the runup to the marijuana-decriminalization vote.
By CHRIS FARAONE | September 25, 2008

Cash-strapped government

Plus, what to do about Russia, and Obama’s upcoming convention
Most people realize that the nasty economic news is getting nastier.
By EDITORIAL | August 20, 2008

Facebook follies

Letters to the Boston editor, August 8, 2008
I’d rather live with Facebook than without!
By LETTERS TO THE BOSTON EDITOR | August 06, 2008

AG should probe BPL

Supposedly ‘independent’ trustees receive city funds. Why Birmingham rather than Bulger for the top job?
Political innocents who discount allegations that Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is politicizing the Boston Public Library’s board of trustees so that he can directly control the nation’s oldest free municipal library received a rude awakening recently.
By EDITORIAL | July 23, 2008

Does Boston hate the BPD?

A secret survey shows just how low the Boston Police Department’s reputation had sunk two years ago. Is the mayor listening?
When Kathleen O’Toole served as Boston police commissioner, from early 2004 through mid 2006, she and Mayor Thomas Menino seemed in constant denial of the spiraling violence and shocking police scandals that were roiling the city.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | July 18, 2008