The state’s highest-profile congressman and one of the nation’s leading liberal voices has decided not to seek reelection. An adviser said the recent Massachusetts redistricting was a major factor in the decision.
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US Representative Barney Frank is the state’s highest-profile congressman and a leading liberal voice, will not seek reelection in 2012.
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In his leadership position on the House Financial Services Committee, Frank played a major role in financial legislation and the country’s response to the recession.
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Frank has a long history in Massachusetts politics, serving as an aide to former mayor Kevin White and a state representative before being elected to Congress.
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Frank with Gerald Ford in 1966.
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are developing instruments for the Solar Probe Plus, a mission designed to get an extreme close-up of our sun.
Massachusetts General Hospital has settled an ‘‘alarm fatigue’’ case with the family of a man who died when nurses didn’t respond to alarms on his cardiac monitor.
After a winter hiatus, Boston’s European-style bicycle-sharing system will cross the Charles River.
The legal saga of the Boxford-bred Eremian brothers might have attracted little notice if not for the fact that their sister is Patrice Tierney, wife of US Representative John F. Tierney.
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Tyrus Lemerande, a Navy Reserve officer serving in Afghanistan, has been entertaining troops with one-man performances of William Shakespeare.
“When you do ‘Henry V’ for a roomful of men in uniform with guns on their hips and M-9s under their chairs, it takes on a whole different meaning.”
Tyrus Lemerande, on his one-man performances of Shakespeare
Many parishioners were tripping over the new English translation of the Mass prayers that were heard yesterday.
The scientist who claims to have developed the world’s first nuclear cold fusion reactor was at the State House last week to explore producing it in Mass.
The Manchester Union Leader endorsed Newt Gingrich over Mitt Romney and the rest of the Republican presidential field.
Egyptians turned out in long lines at voting stations today in their nation’s first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster.
There were some shaky moments on defense to start this season — to say the least. But in the past few weeks, the performance level has risen sharply.
The Schusters have donated more than $5 million to Brigham and Women’s, much of which will go to the hospital’s new Schuster Transplant Center and Transplant Research Center.
Axl Rose’s moves might not be what they once were, but he didn’t lack for energy at the DCU Center.
“I just have to accept that Disney did not create an eighth dwarf named Paranoid.”
Juliette Kayyem, on the relative safety of cruise ships
With quantum computing, today’s researchers are trying to perform a sort of jujitsu.
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