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Survivors, first responders and family members of those killed came together Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing with solemn ceremonies. The city's former Mayor Tom Menino, who has been battling health issues, told the audience Tuesday afternoon that, "When the lights are dim and cameras go away, know our support for you will never waver."

A new political era is beginning in Boston, with Martin Walsh set to become the city’s first new mayor in two decades. […] In remarks prepared for delivery at his inauguration, Walsh promised to listen, learn and lead. He outlined several broad goals for his administration, including creating jobs, ending “senseless gun violence” and improving the city’s public schools. …

Boston Mayor Tom Menino said on Sunday authorities may never be able to question the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, who lies seriously injured and unable to speak after eluding police for 24 hours.

SO THE MAYOR OF BOSTON, channeling his inner Captain Renault, is shocked – shocked! – to find that Boston's taxi industry is a rigged and pitiless racket. Why, until he read about it in the Boston Globe, Tom Menino never had a clue that in the city he has presided over for 20 years, cabbies are commonly treated like serfs, abused by multimillionaire owners who flout the law with impunity. If it hadn't been for the Spotlight team's detailed exposé, the mayor still wouldn't know about all those besieged Boston cab drivers, most of them immigrants, who have to work...

After months of speculation, Mayor Thomas M. Menino is set to endorse Senate hopeful Elizabeth Warren at an event in Roslindale tomorrow, sources close to the mayor told the Herald. Menino has balked at endorsing the Harvard professor for months as speculation swirled that he may sit on the sidelines in her heated race to unseat U.S. Sen. Scott Brown. The mayor, whose political clout in the city could significantly help Warren, will formally endorse her at a public event at 4 p.m. tomorrow, a person close to the mayor told the Herald today. Developing...

‎(1) Please FREEP this poll, which is currently running 53%-46% in FAVOR of the sanctuary city Mayor of Boston's disgraceful comments, and (2) Contact Mayor Menino and let him know what you think about his comments, and that he consults illegal alien activists to determine what should be a deportable crime: Mayor@CityofBoston.gov. To see what the fuss is all about click this thread: Boston Mayor: Car Theft by Illegal Aliens Not a 'Serious Crime' (video)

On yesterday's Howie Carr show, callers remembered some of the malaprop-isms over the years by tongue-tied Boston Mayor Thomas M. (for Mumbles) Menino. It was said that the mayor was going around trying to buy up unflattering domain names. He didn't get MumblesMeninoSucks.com , though. Some Menino-isms: "We don't want people conjugatin' on the Common" Q: "Which states got hit hardest by this blizzard?" A: "Uh, Philadelphia..." "It was an Alcatraz around my neck" "If you need an emergency, call 911" "The Yankee Foundation" (referring to the Red Sox- related Yawkey Foundation) "It's safe to take your family out to...