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Mayor for a New America

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by Thomas M. Menino


  Fish, Michael, [>]

  Fitzgerald, Joe, [>]

  Fitzgerald, John F., [>]

  Flaherty, Michael

  background, [>], [>], [>]

  busing and, [>]

  mayoral race (2009), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  FleetCenter, Boston, [>]

  Flynn, Raymond

  background, [>], [>]

  Cathy (wife), [>]

  commission review of police/findings, [>]–[>]

  cronyism and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  on day/evening of Rome flight, [>]–[>]

  description, [>]–[>]

  elected school committee and, [>], [>]

  hugging Menino before leaving Boston, [>], [>]

  as mayor, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Mel King and, [>]

  Menino and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  needle exchange program and, [>]

  police commissioner appointment, [>]

  St. Patrick’s Day parade and, [>]–[>]

  Vatican and, [>], [>]–[>]

  Ways and Means Committee, City Council and, [>], [>]

  Weld and, [>]

  foreclosure intervention, [>], [>]

  Foxboro stadium, [>], [>], [>]

  Frank, Barney, [>]

  Franklin Park Zoo, [>]

  G&G Delicatessen, [>]

  Gallagher, Jim, [>]

  gang violence

  boot camps/mentors plan, [>]–[>]

  Louis Brown killing, [>]

  Teens Against Gang Violence and, [>]

  See also crime

  Gannon, Peggy, [>]

  Garrity, Arthur W., [>], [>]

  gay rights/issues

  adoptions and, [>]

  AIDS prevention and, [>]

  Boston Gay and Lesbian Pride Day, [>]–[>]

  Catholic Church/officials and, [>]

  Chick-fil-A and, [>]–[>]

  civil unions/marriage and, [>], [>]

  gay couples/health benefits and, [>]

  Greater Boston Lesbian and Gay Political Alliance, [>]

  Menino’s background and, [>]–[>]

  Menino’s views/actions, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  See also St. Patrick’s Day parade

  Gingrich, Newt, [>]

  Gittens, Robert, [>]

  Giuliani, Rudy, [>]

  Given, Scott

  background, [>]

  UP academy and, [>]–[>]

  Godfather video, [>]

  Goffigan, Jermaine, [>]–[>]

  Gore, Al, [>]

  Governing magazine, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  governors of Massachusetts

  Republican governors (1991–2006), [>], [>]–[>]

  See also specific individuals

  “Great Inversion” in American living patterns, [>]

  Greater Boston Lesbian and Gay Political Alliance, [>]

  Griffiths, Sherman/death

  drug raid and, [>]

  killer of, [>]

  police procedural changes and, [>]

  Grogan, Paul, [>]

  Groover, Gregory, Reverend, [>]–[>]

  Grove Hall

  before 1960s riots, [>]–[>]

  Menino’s childhood and, [>]

  Grove Hall restoration

  ads on landlords/“House of Shame,” [>]

  description/tenants, [>]–[>]

  Menino’s commitment to, [>], [>]–[>]

  Grow Clinic, BMC, [>]

  harbor tunnel, [>]

  Harmon, Larry, [>]

  Harrison, Irwin “Tubby,” [>]

  Harrison-Jones, Lois

  contract expiring and, [>], [>]

  criticism of, [>]

  Martin Luther King Day breakfast and, [>]–[>], [>]

  meeting Menino and, [>]

  Menino on, [>]

  as school superintendent, [>], [>]

  tensions with Menino, [>], [>]–[>]

  health issues

  African American women/breast cancer screening and, [>]

  Boston city employees/paid time for cancer screening, [>]

  See also hospitals (Boston); hospitals (public)

  Henderson, Thelma, [>]

  Hendry Street Project, [>]–[>]

  Henneberry, David, [>]

  Hennigan, Maura

  running for City Council president, [>]–[>], [>]

  Ways and Means Committee and, [>]

  Hicks, Louise Day, and racism, [>], [>]

  Hill, Anita, [>]

  Holland, Albert, [>]–[>], [>]

  hospital merger (BCH/University Hospital)

  as Boston Medical Center, [>]

  Boston’s credit rating and, [>]–[>]

  City Council approval and, [>]–[>]

  client groups differences and, [>]–[>]

  community health centers and, [>]

  indigent care and, [>]

  Menino at City Council meeting, [>]

  privatization and, [>]

  recommendation on, [>]–[>]

  surplus/loss and, [>]

  unions and, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  hospitals (Boston)

  privatization and, [>]

  public hospitals and, [>]

  See also Boston City Hospital (BCH); Boston University Medical Center Hospital

  hospitals (public)

  cities closing, [>]

  predictions on, [>]

  housing crisis, [>]–[>]

  Humphrey, Hubert, [>]

  Hurley, John “Wacko,” [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Husock, Howard, [>]

  Hyde Park, Boston

  background/description, [>]

  Menino’s childhood and, [>]

  Hynes Convention Center, [>]

  Iannella, Christopher, [>]

  Iannella, Richard, [>]

  immigrants in America

  Boston and, [>]

  Menino and, [>]–[>]

  after 9/11 and, [>]

  problems of, [>]

  Susan Menino (mother) and, [>], [>], [>]

  Innovation Center, [>]

  Innovation District

  Babson College and, [>]

  description/residents, [>]–[>]

  Menino and, [>], [>]

  parking and, [>], [>]

  start-ups and, [>]–[>], [>]

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

  One Fund Boston and, [>]–[>]

  Republicans attacking, [>]

  International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers/volunteers, [>], [>]

  Jackson, Derrick Z., [>]

  Jeremiah E. Burke High School

  busing and, [>]

  college and, [>]–[>]

  as education improvement symbol, [>]–[>], [>]

  gangs and, [>]–[>]

  history, [>]–[>]

  money and, [>]

  name of, [>]

  problems, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  racism and, [>]

  reconstruction, [>]–[>]

  students on, [>]–[>]

  successes and, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Jesser, Edward

  background, [>]

  Menino and, [>]–[>]

  John Hancock corporation, [>], [>], [>]

  Johnson, Carol

  background, [>]

  career before Boston, [>], [>]

  charter schools and, [>]

  description/style, [>]–[>]

  Matthew (husband), [>], [>]

  Memphis/award and, [>]–[>]

  parents, [>]

  as superintendent of Boston schools, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ), [>]

  Joyce, Dot

  Marathon bombings and, [>], [>], [>]

  position/relationship with Menino, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  July Fourth celebrations, Boston, [>]

  Katz, Bruce, [>]

  Kay, Barbra, [>]

  Kearney, Dennis, [>]

  Kelly, Jimmy, [>], [>] />
  Kelly, John, [>]

  Kennedy, John F. (JFK)

  Menino and, [>]–[>], [>]

  politics and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  presidential campaign (1960), [>]

  Kennedy, Ted

  death/funeral, [>]

  Democratic National Convention (2004) and, [>], [>]–[>]

  dogs of, [>]

  education issues and, [>]

  Feinberg and, [>]–[>]

  Menino and, [>], [>]–[>]

  Romney and, [>], [>]

  White and, [>]

  Keohane, Joe, [>], [>]

  Kerrigan, John, and racism, [>]

  Kerry, John

  Democratic National Convention (2004), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  firefighters and, [>]–[>]

  U.S. Conference of Mayors and, [>]–[>]

  Kineavy, Michael, [>]–[>], [>]

  King, John, [>]

  King, Martin Luther, [>], [>]

  King, Mel, [>], [>]

  Kobie the gorilla, [>], [>]

  Kraft, Jonathan, [>], [>], [>]

  Kraft, Robert

  background, [>]–[>]

  as Patriots owner, [>], [>]–[>]

  Patriots stadium and, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  on South Boston residents, [>]

  venture in Montville, Connecticut, [>]

  lame duck effects, [>]–[>]

  Largo, Marisa, [>]

  Law, Bernard, Cardinal, [>]

  Lawrence, Massachusetts, and longer school hours, [>]–[>]

  Leonard, Steve, [>]–[>], [>]

  Leung, Shirley, [>], [>]

  Leventhal, Norman, [>]

  Liff, Justine, [>]

  Limbaugh, Rush, [>]

  Lingzi, Lu, [>]

  Longfellow School, Roslindale, [>]

  Los Angeles Times, [>]

  Luongo, Robert, [>], [>]

  Lydon, Christopher, [>], [>]

  Lynch, Stephen, [>]

  MacGillivary, Charlie, [>]

  Macworld convention (1998), [>]

  Madrid train bombings, [>]

  MAIG (Mayors Against Illegal Guns), [>]–[>]

  Main Street initiative

  advice from Main Streets consultants, [>]

  Allston Village Main Streets, [>]

  in Boston, [>]–[>]

  description/goal, [>]–[>]

  Great American Main Street award, [>]

  Washington Gateway Main Street, [>]

  See also Roslindale Square/Village restoration

  malapropisms, “Mayor Malaprop,” [>]

  Marathon bombers/manhunt

  carjacking/Danny, [>], [>]

  FBI infomation on Tamerlan Tsarnaev and, [>]–[>], [>]

  innocent men identified and, [>]–[>]

  killing of Collier, [>]

  plans for New York City and, [>]

  search for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  security camera images and, [>], [>], [>]

  shelter-in-place issue and, [>], [>]–[>]

  shelter-in-place request and, [>]–[>]

  shootout in Watertown/casualties, [>]

  See also Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar; Tsarnaev, Tamerlan

  Marathon bombing/aftermath

  casualties/fatalities, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Cathedral of the Holy Cross service, [>], [>]–[>]

  Copley Square memorial, [>]

  description, [>]

  first responders and, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  government teamwork following, [>]–[>]

  managing fear and, [>]–[>]

  press conference (Monday afternoon) and, [>], [>]

  press conference (Monday evening) and, [>]–[>]

  suspicious events/rumors and, [>]–[>], [>]

  SWAT teams, [>]

  See also One Fund Boston; specific individuals

  Marathon bombing/Menino

  broken leg/hospitalization and, [>]–[>]

  Cathedral of the Holy Cross service, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  learning of, [>]

  leaving hospital/press conferences, [>]–[>]

  thanking officers, [>]–[>]

  This Week and, [>]–[>], [>]

  visiting victims, [>]–[>]

  wheelchair and, [>]–[>]

  Martin Luther King Day breakfast, [>]–[>]

  Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, [>]–[>]

  Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS). See MCAS

  Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, [>]

  MassChallenge, Inc., [>]–[>]

  Mattapan murders, [>], [>], [>]

  Max Warburg Courage Curriculum, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  mayor (acting) of Boston/Menino

  becoming, [>]–[>], [>]

  City Council president and, [>]–[>]

  Flynn leaving Boston/hug and, [>], [>]

  summer jobs for kids and, [>]

  teachers’ contract and, [>]

  water bill rates and, [>]

  Ways and Means Committee chairman and, [>]–[>]

  mayor of Boston

  city charter and, [>]

  City Council president and, [>]

  Irish Americans and, [>]

  voter issues, [>]

  See also specific individuals

  mayor of Boston/Menino

  approval rating, [>]

  clean government and, [>]–[>]

  description summary, [>]

  fifth-term power/political power and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  as first Italian American mayor, [>]

  on governing style, [>]–[>]

  health problems and, [>]–[>]

  Hyde Park vision and, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  incremental change and, [>]–[>]

  mayoral goal/effects, [>]

  meeting people and, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  multiracial/multicultural Boston vision and, [>]

  pledge to limit terms and, [>]

  political contributions and, [>]–[>]

  retirement announcement/reasons, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  retirement timing and, [>]

  sixth-term question and, [>]–[>]

  stability/middle-class Boston and, [>]

  trust and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  values and, [>]

  vision, [>]–[>]

  voice mail and, [>], [>]

  welfare reform plan and, [>]

  See also specific events; specific projects/issues

  “Mayor Malaprop,” [>]

  “Mayor Pothole,” [>]

  mayoral election (1997), [>]

  mayoral inaugural address (1993)

  Angela and, [>], [>]

  description, [>]–[>]

  Menino’s family/values and, [>]–[>]

  mayoral inaugural party (1993), [>]

  mayoral race (1993)

  candidates declaring, [>]

  city elections in off years and, [>]–[>]

  first poll, [>]

  Flynn’s hug and, [>], [>]

  gay issues and, [>]

  ideology/issues and, [>]

  Menino and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Salerno and, [>]–[>]

  September preliminary, [>]

  Year of the Woman and, [>]

  See also mayor (acting) of Boston/Menino; specific candidates

  mayoral race (2001)

  Davis-Mullen and, [>]–[>]

  Menino ads and, [>]

  preliminary election timing (9/11), [>]

  mayoral race (2005), [>]

  mayoral race (2009)

  debates and, [>]

  firefighters and, [>]–[>]

 

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