CAMBRIDGE - It’s about time state Senator Anthony Galluccio’s remarkable good luck finally ran dry. (Page B1, 641 words)By: Yvonne Abraham|Date: Nov 18, 2009

It’s been a big week in the race to succeed the late Ted Kennedy in the US Senate. (Page B1, 651 words)By: Yvonne Abraham|Date: Nov 15, 2009

Leave Ted out of it Let’s face it: Martha Coakley is no Ted Kennedy. Neither is Mike Capuano. Nor Alan Khazei. Nor Steve Pagliuca. (Page B1, 649 words)By: Yvonne Abraham|Date: Nov 11, 2009

Ruth Ellen Fitch has traveled worlds beyond the Harrishof Street house in Roxbury where she grew up during the fifties and sixties. (Page B1, 659 words)By: Yvonne Abraham|Date: Nov 8, 2009

Now Thomas M. Menino becomes the standard by whom other mayors are measured. A fifth consecutive term. That’s more than the infamous, beloved James Michael Curley and his formidable machinery could engineer. And more than Kevin White’s vaunted vision could inspire. (Page B1, 628 words)By: Yvonne Abraham|Date: Nov 4, 2009

Whatever happens on Tuesday, Boston should be grateful to Michael Flaherty. Watching him over the last week, hammering away at Mayor Tom Menino over the state of the schools, the lack of diversity in his top posts, and his autocratic leadership style, I was struck by how remarkable this city councilor’s challenge has been. (Page B1, 654 words)By: Yvonne Abraham|Date: Nov 1, 2009

A man missed NEWTON - Everybody in Newton knew Jeff Beatrice because he had coached every kid in town at one time or another. Their mothers would stop his wife, Elinor, in the street to tell her Jeff was the best basketball, baseball, softball, football coach their kid had ever had. (Page B1, 697 words)By: Yvonne Abraham|Date: Oct 28, 2009

EVERETT - Usually, big social problems are so complicated that it’s hard to imagine ever fixing them. And, daunted, we don’t. (Page B1, 641 words)By: Yvonne Abraham|Date: Oct 25, 2009

No patch for deepest cut CHELSEA - “You threw your life away.’’ That’s what Leslie Niedner’s guidance counselor at Boston Latin Academy told her when she got pregnant at 16. (Page B1, 653 words)By: Yvonne Abraham|Date: Oct 21, 2009

Say you’re one of the 135 Democratic legislators who voted to keep Sal DiMasi as House speaker back in January. Right now, you’ve got to be feeling even chumpier than usual, which hardly seemed possible until a few days ago. (Page B1, 643 words)By: Yvonne Abraham|Date: Oct 18, 2009