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The wife of U.S. Rep. John Tierney, whose tax fraud conviction has dogged her husband’s re-election bid, was treated at Beverly Hospital this morning after being injured in a car crash, the Herald has learned. The congressman was spotted by a Herald reporter leaving the hospital with his wife, Patrice, just after noon. She was walking haltingly and appeared to be in pain as she emerged from the emergency room of Beverly Hospital on the arm of her husband. Tierney, who was assisting his wife into the front seat of their car, held up a hand when approached by a...

So there I was, at the first 6th Congressional District debate, held by Commonwealth Magazine at North Shore Community College. Participants were, in alphabetic order, Fishman vs. Tierney vs. Tisei. This completes the only objectivity in this column. As a libertarian, I agreed with everything the Libertarian candidate Daniel Fishman eloquently said — especially his mini-poem about my primary concern this election: “Debt is the threat.” Hope this mantra lodges itself in every voter’s mind. Now moving on to the real race, which is between Richard Tisei, a nice young man (roughly my son’s age) whom I’ve known for almost...

LYNN — U.S. Rep. John Tierney, D-Salem, called Republican opponent Richard Tisei a "desperate candidate" and linked him to a GOP website highlighting legal troubles faced by Tierney's in-laws involved in gambling. "If this is the way Tisei wants to operate, it's bankrupt," he said in an interview following a discussion with Saugus seniors Tuesday morning. He added: "Most voters don't want to talk about what my brother-in-law did, they want to talk about jobs." Not so, Tisei said Tuesday, adding he thinks voters are interested in Tierney's in-laws' legal problems. "Voters are looking at him," Tisei said. Tierney's brother-in-law...