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Police tape surrounds De Marco's Pizzeria after a shooting rampage that left one employee and two unarmed volunteer police officers dead in New York in this March 15, 2007 file photo. No one thinks gun control is going to be the most important issue in... View Photo »
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (L) and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly attend a news conference in New York in this September 8, 2011 file photo. No one thinks gun control is going to be the most important issue in 2012, but there are specific... View Photo »
Mayor Thomas Menino hugs former Boston mayor Kevin White's widow Kathryn at the conclusion of the service held at Saint Cecilia Church in Boston, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. View Photo »
In this photo of Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, left, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg record an advertisement to appear during the Super Bowl. While the mayors joke about the New England Patriots and New York Giants rivalry,... View Photo »
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. , points to his eyes as he speaks with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, right, as they wait for President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan 23, 2012, for a ceremony where the president... View Photo »
In this Monday night Dec. 12, 2011 photo, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, right, shakes hands with Courtney Smith, 35, of Ashville, N.C. , who lies wrapped in bedding on Washington Street in the heart of the Downtown Crossing area of Boston. Smith, who said... View Photo »
In this Monday night, Dec. 12, 2011 photo, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, left, talks with Maurice, right, a man who gave only his first name while panhandling outside a store on Washington Street in the heart of the Downtown Crossing area of Boston. ... View Photo »
Members of Occupy Boston have fun inside a large bag at their encampment in Boston, Massachusetts, December 10, 2011, over 24 hours after Boston Mayor Thomas Menino ordered them to leave the camp. Menino on Thursday had ordered the protesters to clear... View Photo »
BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 8: The remnants of an Occupy Boston tent sit in the encampment. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their downtown encampment in Dewey Square, or face eviction. In response,... View Photo »
BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 8: A Occupy Boston Chaplin speaks at the General Assembly meeting on December 8, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their downtown encampment... View Photo »
BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 8: Kevin Maley puts up an Occupy Boston sign on the information tent in the Occupy Boston encampment on October 8, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to... View Photo »
BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 9: Occupy Boston protestors sit inside the encampment, waiting for a police response on December 9, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their... View Photo »
BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 8: Occupy Boston protest slogans are projected onto the side of a building in the encampment on December 8, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave... View Photo »
BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 9: An Occupy Boston protestor and a Boston police officer talk after the protestors spread on Atlantic Avenue on December 9, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston... View Photo »
BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 9: An Occupy Boston protestor guards the leg a tent that was brought onto Atlantic Avenue after protestors took to the street in response to the announcement that the police would not be evicting their encampment on December 9,... View Photo »
BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 8: An Occupy Boston protestor carries an upside-down American flag through the encampment on December 8, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave... View Photo »
BOSTON, DC - DECEMBER 9: An Occupy Boston protestor sets up a tent in the middle of Atlantic Avenue after the police informed protestors that they would not be evicting the encampment on December 9, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M.... View Photo »
BOSTON, DC - DECEMBER 9: Occupy Boston protestors react to the news that their encampment will not be evicted on December 9, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave... View Photo »
BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 8: An Occupy Boston protestor wheels his tent and camping gear out of Dewey Square on December 8, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their... View Photo »
A member of "Occupy Boston" poses for a photograph, hours before a midnight deadline set by Mayor Thomas Menino to leave their encampment in Boston, Massachusetts December 8, 2011. Boston became the latest big U.S. city to order protesters affiliated... View Photo »
Thomas Michael Menino (born December 27, 1942) is the mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, United States and the city's first Italian-American mayor. Full Article
In this photo of Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, left, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg record an advertisement to appear during the Super Bowl. While the mayors joke about the New England Patriots and New York Giants rivalry, they use the ad to publicize for the...
View Photo »Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. , points to his eyes as he speaks with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, right, as they wait for President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan 23, 2012, for a ceremony where the president honored the 2010-2011 Stanley Cup...
View Photo »In this Monday night Dec. 12, 2011 photo, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, right, shakes hands with Courtney Smith, 35, of Ashville, N.C. , who lies wrapped in bedding on Washington Street in the heart of the Downtown Crossing area of Boston. Smith, who said he has been homeless for the past...
View Photo »In this Monday night, Dec. 12, 2011 photo, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, left, talks with Maurice, right, a man who gave only his first name while panhandling outside a store on Washington Street in the heart of the Downtown Crossing area of Boston. Maurice, who accepted the mayor's...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 15: Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY)(R), Boston Mayor Thomas Menino (C), and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)(L), arrive at a news conference, on November 15, 2011 in Washington, DC. The news conference took place after a Senate Judiciary Committee Crime and Terrorism...
View Photo »Police tape surrounds De Marco's Pizzeria after a shooting rampage that left one employee and two unarmed volunteer police officers dead in New York in this March 15, 2007 file photo. No one thinks gun control is going to be the most important issue in 2012, but there are specific races...
View Photo »New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (L) and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly attend a news conference in New York in this September 8, 2011 file photo. No one thinks gun control is going to be the most important issue in 2012, but there are specific races and constituencies where it...
View Photo »Members of Occupy Boston have fun inside a large bag at their encampment in Boston, Massachusetts, December 10, 2011, over 24 hours after Boston Mayor Thomas Menino ordered them to leave the camp. Menino on Thursday had ordered the protesters to clear the camp by midnight, after a judge...
View Photo »A member of "Occupy Boston" poses for a photograph, hours before a midnight deadline set by Mayor Thomas Menino to leave their encampment in Boston, Massachusetts December 8, 2011. Boston became the latest big U.S. city to order protesters affiliated with the Occupy movement to abandon...
View Photo »An American flag flies on a backpack in the foreground as members of "Occupy Boston" meet, hours before a midnight deadline set by Mayor Thomas Menino to leave their encampment in Boston, Massachusetts December 8, 2011. Boston became the latest big U.S. city to order protesters...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 15: Arizona shooting victim Bill Badger (C), points to where he was shot in the head, while flanked by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) (R), Boston Mayor Thomas Menino (2nd-L), and Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)(L), during a news conference, on November 15, 2011 in...
View Photo »President Barack Obama, right, is greeted Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, left, during his arrival at Logan International airport in Boston, Tuesday, March, 8, 2011.
View Photo »Boston Mayor Thomas Menino testifies before the Joint Committee on Public Service on municipal health insurance reform, Tuesday, March 8, 2011, at the Statehouse in Boston. Massachusetts unions and city leaders were among those who testified to weigh in a proposal by the governor to...
View Photo »Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, left, addresses the media prior to testifying before the Joint Committee on Public Service on municipal health insurance reform, as Thatcher Kezer, second left, Mayor of Amesbury, Mass. , Joshua Ostroff, second right, Natick, Mass. , chairman of the Board of...
View Photo »BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 8: The remnants of an Occupy Boston tent sit in the encampment. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their downtown encampment in Dewey Square, or face eviction. In response, many of the protestors chose to...
View Photo »BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 8: A Occupy Boston Chaplin speaks at the General Assembly meeting on December 8, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their downtown encampment in Dewey Square, or face eviction.
View Photo »BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 8: Kevin Maley puts up an Occupy Boston sign on the information tent in the Occupy Boston encampment on October 8, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their downtown encampment...
View Photo »BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 9: Occupy Boston protestors sit inside the encampment, waiting for a police response on December 9, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their downtown encampment in Dudley...
View Photo »BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 8: Occupy Boston protest slogans are projected onto the side of a building in the encampment on December 8, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their downtown encampment in Dewey...
View Photo »BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 9: An Occupy Boston protestor and a Boston police officer talk after the protestors spread on Atlantic Avenue on December 9, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their downtown...
View Photo »BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 9: An Occupy Boston protestor guards the leg a tent that was brought onto Atlantic Avenue after protestors took to the street in response to the announcement that the police would not be evicting their encampment on December 9, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
View Photo »BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 8: An Occupy Boston protestor carries an upside-down American flag through the encampment on December 8, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their downtown encampment in Dewey...
View Photo »BOSTON, DC - DECEMBER 9: An Occupy Boston protestor sets up a tent in the middle of Atlantic Avenue after the police informed protestors that they would not be evicting the encampment on December 9, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for...
View Photo »BOSTON, DC - DECEMBER 9: Occupy Boston protestors react to the news that their encampment will not be evicted on December 9, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their downtown encampment in Dudley...
View Photo »BOSTON, MA - DECEMBER 8: An Occupy Boston protestor wheels his tent and camping gear out of Dewey Square on December 8, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino set a midnight deadline for Occupy Boston protestors to leave their downtown encampment in Dewey Square,...
View Photo »In this photo of Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2012, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, left, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg record an advertisement to appear during the Super Bowl. While the mayors joke about the New England Patriots and New York Giants rivalry, they use the ad to publicize for the...
View Photo »Well, there was that drug issue one time, and there was somebody trying to scuffle ... And you know, this can happen anywhere. But I just want to make sure I have the tools to maintain public safety regulations within that open space.
I want to thank our Friends of Copley Square for providing this evening for us and all the work they do all year round to maintain this park
Unfortunately, this means that too many kids are missing out on the joys of the Holiday season ... This year the demand will be very high. I am asking everyone to give what they can.
During these difficult economic times, families are struggling everyday just to make ends meet ... After putting food on the table and paying the bills, many parents and guardians don’t have the ability to buy toys.
I am issuing a special challenge to residents to visit their neighborhood business districts for holiday shopping this year
We want to make it as convenient as possible for Boston residents and visitors to patronize our neighborhood business districts. The Boston Meter Card will be a great tool for consumers and I’m thrilled to be able to launch it in time for the holiday season
