WBZ is a commercial AM radio station,licensed to Boston,Massachusetts,and owned and operated by iHeartMedia,Inc. Its studios and offices are located on Cabot Road in the Boston suburb of Medford.
Raymond Leo Flynn is an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston,Massachusetts,from 1984 until 1993. He also served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See from 1993 to 1997.
Kevin Hagan White was an American politician best known for serving as the mayor of Boston for four terms from 1968 to 1984. He was first elected to the office at the age of 38. He presided as mayor during racially turbulent years in the late 1960s and 1970s,and the start of desegregation of schools via court-ordered busing of school children in Boston. White won the mayoral office in the 1967 general election in a hard-fought campaign opposing the anti-busing and anti-desegregation Boston School Committee member Louise Day Hicks. Earlier he had been elected Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth in 1960 at the age of 31,and he resigned from that office after his election as Mayor.
Thomas Michael Menino was an American politician who served as the mayor of Boston,from 1993 to 2014. He was the city's longest-serving mayor. He was elected mayor in 1993 after first serving three months in the position of "acting mayor" following the resignation of his predecessor Raymond Flynn. Before serving as mayor,Menino was a member of Boston City Council and had been elected president of the City Council in 1993.
Roger S. Berkowitz is the founder and Head Fishmonger/CEO of Roger’s Fish Co.,an e-commerce company delivering premium quality seafood and prepared meals nationwide. He was formerly the President and Chief Executive Officer for 30 years of Legal Sea Foods,a Boston-based restaurant group along the northeast of the United States,before selling the family-owned business in 2020. He started working in the Legal Sea Foods fish market in the Inman Square section of Cambridge,Massachusetts at the age of ten and held a variety of roles before becoming President and CEO in 1992. He led the company's growth and diversification,overseeing 35 restaurants,retail and mail order divisions,and 4,000 employees.
Sam Sang Yoon is a former at-large member of the Boston City Council. He later served as the executive director for the Council of Korean Americans in Washington,DC. He was the first Asian American to hold elected office in Boston. He is a member of the United States Democratic Party.
The Boston Planning &Development Agency (BPDA),formerly the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA),is a Massachusetts public agency that serves as the municipal planning and development agency for Boston,working on both housing and commercial developments.
Herbert Parsons Gleason was an American attorney who served as Boston's chief legal counsel under Mayor Kevin White.
The Boston mayoral election of 1993 occurred on Tuesday,November 2,1993,between Acting Mayor Thomas Menino and State Representative James T. Brett. Menino was elected to his first term.
James T. Brett is an American former politician who is the current president and CEO of The New England Council. From 1981 until 1996,Brett was a Democratic Party member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Peter Francis Hines was an American attorney and politician who served on the Boston City Council from 1958 to 1968. He was the council president in 1963.
Martin Joseph Walsh is an American politician and trade union official who served as the mayor of Boston from 2014 to 2021 and as the 29th United States Secretary of Labor from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,Walsh resigned from his position as the US Secretary of Labor in March 2023 in order to accept a position as executive director of the National Hockey League Players' Association. Before his mayoralty,he served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,representing the 13th Suffolk district from 1997 until 2014. As a trade union member,Walsh worked his way up to serve as the head of the Boston Building Trades Council from 2011 until 2013.
Edward F. Davis III is the former police commissioner of the Boston Police Department,having served from 2006 to 2013,including during the Boston Marathon bombing. Following his resignation from the police,Davis has been the security analyst for WBZ-TV in Boston. He is the founder and CEO of Edward Davis,LLC Security and Management Consulting.
Victoria A. Budson is the founding executive director of the Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts. WAPPP closes gender gaps in economic opportunity,political participation,health and education by creating knowledge,training leaders and informing public policy and organizational practices. Budson founded and chairs "From Harvard Square to the Oval Office:A Political Campaign Practicum",a non-partisan initiative of the Women and Public Policy Program that provides a group of Harvard graduate students with the training and support they need to ascend in the electoral process at the local,state and national levels.
The 2018 Massachusetts gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Republican Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito sought reelection to a second term in office,facing Democratic challengers Jay Gonzalez and Quentin Palfrey,respectively. Candidates were selected in the primary election held on September 4,2018.
Sarah-Ann Shaw was an American journalist and television reporter with WBZ-TV from 1969 to 2000. She was best known as the first female African-American reporter to be televised in Boston. Shaw was also known for her presence in civil rights movements and as a volunteer in education programs. Her recognition was widespread,including awards from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),Rosie's Place,the Museum of Afro-American History,and Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD).
The Bay State Banner is a weekly newspaper primarily geared toward the readership interests of the African-American community in Boston,Massachusetts. Distributed free of charge,it was founded in 1965 by Melvin B. Miller,who remained the chief editor and publisher until March 2023. In 2015,the publication celebrated its 50th anniversary serving the region's minority-oriented neighborhoods.
The New England Council is a regional business association representing both public and private organizations in the New England region of the United States. Established in 1925,it is the oldest regional business association in the United States.
Thomas Menino served as mayor of Boston,Massachusetts from 1993 through 2014. He is the longest serving mayor in the city's history. Menino first became acting mayor in July 1993,after Raymond Flynn resigned as mayor to assume the post of United States ambassador to the Holy See. Menino was elected mayor in the subsequent 1993 Boston mayoral election,and was reelected to additional terms in the four subsequent elections,making for an unprecedented and unsurpassed twenty year tenure. On March 28,2013,Menino announced that he would not seek a sixth term.
Brian Paul Golden is an American politician and attorney who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1999 to 2004 and was the director of the Boston Planning &Development Agency from 2014 to 2022.
