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Activists in City Hall : the progressive response to the Reagan era in Boston and Chicago
In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Taking office as the Reagan administration was withdrawing federal aid from local governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington implemented major policies that would outlast them. More than reforming governments, they changed the substance of what the government was trying to do: above all, to effect a measure of redistribution of resources to the cities' poor and working classes and away from hollow goals of growth as measured by the accumulation of skyscrapers. In Boston, Flynn moderated an office development boom while securing millions of dollars for affordable housing. In Chicago, Washington implemented concrete measures to save manufacturing jobs, against the tide of national policy and trends.
Activists in City Hall examines how both mayors achieved their objectives by incorporating neighborhood activists as a new organizational force in devising, debating, implementing, and shaping policy. Based in extensive archival research enriched by details and insights gleaned from hours of interviews with key figures in each administration and each city's activist community, Pierre Clavel argues that key to the success of each mayor were numerous factors: productive contacts between city hall and neighborhood activists, strong social bases for their agendas, administrative innovations, and alternative visions of the city. Comparing the experiences of Boston and Chicago with those of other contemporary progressive cities-Hartford, Berkeley, Madison, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, Burlington, and San Francisco- Activists in City Hall provides a new account of progressive urban politics during the Reagan era and offers many valuable lessons for policymakers, city planners, and progressive political activists.
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Activists in City Hall
In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected progressive mayors with deep roots among community activists. Taking office as the Reagan administration was withdrawing federal aid from local governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington implemented major policies that would outlast them. More than reforming governments, they changed the substance of what the government was trying to do: above all, to effect a measure of redistribution of resources to the cities' poor and working classes and away from hollow goals of \"growth\" as measured by the accumulation of skyscrapers. In Boston, Flynn moderated an office development boom while securing millions of dollars for affordable housing. In Chicago, Washington implemented concrete measures to save manufacturing jobs, against the tide of national policy and trends.
Activists in City Hallexamines how both mayors achieved their objectives by incorporating neighborhood activists as a new organizational force in devising, debating, implementing, and shaping policy. Based in extensive archival research enriched by details and insights gleaned from hours of interviews with key figures in each administration and each city's activist community, Pierre Clavel argues that key to the success of each mayor were numerous factors: productive contacts between city hall and neighborhood activists, strong social bases for their agendas, administrative innovations, and alternative visions of the city. Comparing the experiences of Boston and Chicago with those of other contemporary progressive cities-Hartford, Berkeley, Madison, Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, Burlington, and San Francisco-Activists in City Hallprovides a new account of progressive urban politics during the Reagan era and offers many valuable lessons for policymakers, city planners, and progressive political activists.
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60 minutes. Politics, privacy and the pub Ray Flynn
Mike Wallace reports on the Boston Globe's reporting on former mayor Ray Flynn's drinking habits during the 1998 congressional election.
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Politics, Privacy & The Pub (Ray Flynn)
Mike Wallace reports on the Boston Globe's reporting on former mayor Ray Flynn's drinking habits during the 1998 congressional election.
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Mayor to the Rescue In Boston House Fire
''I was watching television; I didn't know what was happening,'' he recalled. ''Then I heard the front door crash in and all of a sudden Mayor [Raymond Flynn] is standing in my parlor. I said to him, 'What are you doing here?' ''
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Boston Ignores a Trend In Re-Electing a Mayor
Mr. Flynn's father was a longshoreman, often in poor health and out of work, and his mother was a cleaning woman. Mr. Flynn made his way out of poverty by getting a basketball scholarship to Providence College and eventually a tryout with the Boston Celtics. He didn't make the team, and instead got involved in politics, working on Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey's Presidential campaign in 1968 and later being elected to the state legislature to represent his old neighborhood, South Boston. Today he still lives in a modest row house in \"Southie,\" a working-class district on the waterfront. Voters have reacted differently. \"The vast majority of the people who voted for him actually know him,\" said Ira Jackson, a deputy mayor under Mr. Flynn's predecessor, Kevin H. White, and now a senior vice president of the Bank of Boston. \"In today's world, with problems spiraling out of control, that is very reassuring. The voters know [Ray Flynn] will be there.\" In his first two terms, Mr. Flynn was widely given credit for easing racial tension that had grown out of a conflict over court-ordered school busing in the mid-1970's. Although he had opposed the busing himself at the time, Mr. Flynn as Mayor made a concerted effort to reach out to Boston's black population, opening predominantly white housing projects to blacks. He restored many of the city's neglected neighborhood parks. And he increased the number of blacks, Hispanics and Asians on the city payroll to 22 percent from 6 percent. Minorities make up 35 percent of Boston's population.
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NOMINEE RETHINKS VATICAN POSTING
\"I want to go to Sudan and Somalia, Northern Ireland, Peru, Cambodia,\" he said. \"The President says he wants me to do what I've been doing in Boston, to focus on compassion.\" Feminists Were Angered The State Department said today that Mr. Flynn's appointment was still on track. \"I think Mayor Flynn, as far as the department knows, is excited about serving as ambassador and we're excited to have him serve,\" said a spokesman, Mike McCurry. \"He just wants to make sure it's a position of substance -- that's he's not going to be dumped, shall we say, filling the incense can over there,\" Mr. [Frank Costello] said. \"He's been an altar boy. He's a 53-year-old man; he doesn't want to do that any more.\"
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Aid to India Quake Victims Sticks to Main Roads
\"True, the death toll here was far less than other places, but we also had all our homes destroyed,\" said Sudhakar Patil of Chincholi-Pethe. \"Don't we deserve at least a tarpaulin cover over our heads?\" \"This is not India's crisis,\" Mr. [Raymond Flynn] said as he scrambled across mounds of debris in the village of Tarni. \"This is a crisis of international concern, a crisis that the eyes of the world should open to.\" \"We hear of all the relief material coming in but we haven't seen any of it. Chief ministers and prime ministers come to the villages only on the highway,\" Mr. Patil said. \"Not even the district administrator has come to ask our plight.\"
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Vatican Under Attack Along With Nominee
They blame the Vatican for defending doctrine: it should not, it seems, oppose divorce, \"condom education\" or abortion. They dismiss Vatican City State as \"a fictional construct.\" Finally, they level the fantastic accusation that the Vatican \"requires married women employees to promise contractually that they will resign their jobs if they become pregnant.\"
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