Here are the names of the four Democratic candidates who are running to succeed the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the U.S. Senate:
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley,
Rep. Michael Capuano,
Businessman Stephen Pagliuca,
City Year co-founder Alan Khazei.
There won’t be a test, at least not yet.
But perhaps there should be and here’s why:
It has been a very [...]

We’re excited to welcome Scott Brown and Jack E. Robinson to Radio Boston this Friday, to take your calls and questions about the upcoming special Senate primary election in December. It’s an opportunity to ask the two Republican candidates why they think they’re the right person to fill the late Senator Ted Kennedy’s seat. [...]

The field of candidates for the special election to succeed the late Senator Ted Kennedy is starting to firm up.

Historic events are often difficult to process while you are in the midst of them, and Kennedy’s death has been hard for me. As a journalist and radio producer, there’s so much to do to make sure you’re covering the basic events,  there’s not time to really reflect on the event’s meaning. Â
Seeing the crowds of people lined [...]

With the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a political dynasty passes into history. What has the clan Kennedy meant for our region, for its Irish immigrant population, for Catholics here and around the country and for liberal political tradition in America? Now that the “lion of the Senate” is gone, will Massachusetts’ liberalism change?

By now, you’ve probably heard. Senator Edward “Teddy” Kennedy, often called ‘the Liberal Lion’ has passed away at his home on Cape Cod. He was 77.

The Senior Senator from Massachusetts thunders on the costs of college tuition. January, 2007.