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Jeffrey Turco. The Democratic Primary and the Republican Primary in the special election will be held on Tuesday, March 2. The general election (Democratic Primary winner versus Republican Primary winner) will be held on Tuesday, March 30. As of Tuesday, no Republican candidate had entered the race. Candidates have until Jan. 19 to submit their nomination signatures to the Revere Election Department or the Winthrop Town Clerk’s Office. The five Democratic candidates have been reaching out to ...

Ward 4 Councilor Patrick Keefe completed a successful year as City Council President. The Council will elect its new leader at its first meeting of 2021 on Monday, Jan. 11. Keefe led the 11-member Council through an unprecedented year that was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic which had a major impact on all areas of life in Revere. Due to the coronavirus, the Council began holding its meetings on Zoom, giving councilors the opportunity to participate remotely from their respective homes. To t...

City Announces COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic Following a successful first responder vaccination campaign, the Cities of Revere, Chelsea, and Winthrop  announced plans for another clinic to take place on Thursday, January 28. The clinic is offering 500 appointment slots to home-based and…

Robert A. DeLeo of Winthrop, who was elected to the Mass. House of Representatives in 1990 and went on to serve as Speaker of the House for 12 years, delivered his farewell address in the House Chambers at the State House in Boston Tuesday afternoon. The speech marked the end of a legendary political career for DeLeo, who served as a Winthrop Town Meeting member and a member of the Board of Selectmen before running successfully for the seat that encompasses a large portion of Revere and all of ...

Elle Baker has her sights on Ambrose Park. The diligent and incredibly efficient project manager from the city’s Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development appeared at the City Council meeting to talk about a new grant that will help fund renovations at Ambrose Park located on Ambrose Street. “We applied for a grant during the summertime and we were awarded a grant for Ambrose Park in the amount of $273,900,” said Baker. The Planning Department worked with City Finance Directo...

Extract money for himself. the reason carl icahn is up there on that board, the reason he didnt last as special advisor to the president on regulatory reform is because of this reporting from reuters and this reporting from patrick keefe at the new yorker magazine. reuters and the new yorker documented how carl icahn used that trump administration white house gig like it was just any other carl icahn corporate raider business opportunity. he leveraged that gig into what may have ended up being h...

Yorker" patrick keefe who has written extensively about el chapo. patrick, you first. who is el chapo in terms of the enormity and the influence of the whole drug cartel trafficking business and how is it he became so powerful even behind bars? >> hes an amazing character. i mean this is a guy who grew up basically a farm boy, who by most accounts is more or less illiterate even today. he never really got much of an education. but he became during the 1970s a pretty formidable drug trafficker an...

But hes cut a swath wherever he thinks he can use them to extract money for himself. the reason carl icahn is up there on that board, the reason he didnt last as special advisor to the president on regulatory reform is because of this reporting from reuters and this reporting from patrick keefe at the new yorker magazine. reuterss a and the new yorker documented how carl icahn used that trump administration white house gig like it was just any other carl icahn corporate raider business opportuni...