Democratic senatorial candidate Alan Khazei and his wife, Vanessa Kirsch, were coming to dinner. Yikes! What’s a househusband to do? (Page B1, 806 words)By: Alex Beam|Date: Nov 24, 2009

People say that the Democratic primary race for Ted Kennedy's seat is boring, and they are right. There's not a doughnut's worth of difference among the pretenders. Each claims to be a super-liberal, eager to empty out the US Treasury to placate whatever interest group they happen to find themselves in front of.By: Alex Beam|Date: Nov 20, 2009

Endorsing early - and often Last week, Scott Evans endorsed US Representative Mike Capuano for the US Senate. Who is Scott Evans, you ask? He is a young actor who plays a closeted gay cop on the ABC soap opera “One Life to Live.’’ He is also Mike Capuano’s nephew. At the same event, when the better-known Kitty Dukakis also endorsed Capuano, Scott’s brother Chris ... (Page B1, 568 words)By: Alex Beam|Date: Nov 17, 2009

Hell is other people - French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre 1. If you are Scott Brown, Republican candidate for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, hell is someone named Jack E. Robinson. (Page B6, 661 words)By: Alex Beam|Date: Nov 12, 2009

Dear Steve, There comes a time in every political campaign to fish or cut bait. For you, that time is now. (Page B1, 640 words)By: Alex Beam|Date: Nov 7, 2009

Flaherty? Menino? 10 reasons to vote yes Top 10 reasons to vote for Michael Flaherty for mayor: 10. At a Flaherty event, Haitian activist Sylvane Simon compares Menino’s years in power to the genocidal Duvalier regime in Haiti. (Page B3, 474 words)By: Alex Beam|Date: Nov 3, 2009

Meanwhile, in RepublicanLand . . . I showed up at a $250-per-ticket fund-raiser for the Massachusetts GOP earlier this week at the Boston Harbor Hotel to take the pulse of the not-so-Loyal Opposition. I’ll say one thing for Republicans: They have great hair. I spotted former governor Bill Weld, with his still youthful mane of yellow-orange thatch. Ex-governor Paul Cellucci ... (Page B1, 716 words)By: Alex Beam|Date: Oct 30, 2009

They’re regular, all right, but not like you and me Last week, Steve Pagliuca, the $400 Million Dollar Man, was greeting ordinary folk on East Broadway in South Boston. (Page B3, 609 words)By: Alex Beam|Date: Oct 27, 2009

So my maiden assignment is an expense-account-funded pub crawl. Covering politics sounds like fun! My first stop of the evening lands me at Jasper White’s Summer Shack on Alewife Parkway in Cambridge, just in time for Senator Anthony Galluccio’s fund-raiser. “Free Beer and Wine, Compliments of Senator Galluccio,’’ the invitation reads. Understandably, I am psyched for a wing-ding. (Page B1, 673 words)By: Alex Beam|Date: Oct 23, 2009

The day Senator Edward Kennedy died, I sought out Nigel Hamilton for advice. Hamilton knows the Kennedys, and he knows biography. He wrote the best biographical tome about a Kennedy family member, “JFK: Reckless Youth,’’ about Jack Kennedy before he was elected to Congress. More recently he penned “Biography: A Brief History,’’ a study of the biographer’s art. (Page G42, 676 words)By: Alex Beam|Date: Oct 16, 2009