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City Hall in Medford, Mass. Addressing tangible needs keeps local leaders focused on specific problems, not ideological debates. (Nancy Lane/Boston Herald/TNS) But things are much less heated at the ...

Session 1: 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25 in the Chamber Community Room Session 2: 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1 in the Chamber Community Room Session 3: 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8 in the Chamber ...

The California June 2 primary election is 10 weeks off. Plenty of time, one might think, for candidates to become known, and for voters to have enough information to make reasonable choices. We’ll ...

“All politics is local,” Tip O’Neill, the patron saint of American politics, famously repeated throughout his very long political career. By that, the former House speaker meant that positions taken ...