grew up in the boston area, live in different parts of boston, went to a catholic high school in dorchesterwhich is a section of boston. because of my parents work and the opportunities they gave me, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university. it was intense. i stayed there for college, for law school, and i also have a master's in public policy there. those are subjects i decided to study in part because i was very interested in public service and public policy issues and government. i ran for office in part because i wanted to serve the city and really protect all that is so special about what san francisco is. >> we've been talking for years about how important it is to build new neighborhoods, to develop affordable housing, make sure we have transit-oriented sustainable green development that really is worthy of a 21st century san francisco. what we're doing today -- and, frankly, what we're doing this year will have impacts on the city for decades to come. thank you all for being part of this, and i look forward to that mid-cutting. i moved to san francisco 15 years

our first listing is in dorchester, massachusetts. the address is 21 sanford street.t price 359,000, taxes 2100, four bedrooms, two bath, 1864 square feet. >> it's an area of dorchester which is a part of boston known as emerald mills. it's in lovely condition, four bedrooms, two on the first floor. you can walk -- one great thing, you can walk to everything. lots of shops, restaurants, there have been a lot of condo conversions and a lot of lots being built. so you're really getting in on the ground floor, which is so hard to do. >> it sound like it's an up and coming neighborhood. is that a correct read? >> totally up and coming. totally. >> it looks very nicely done. let's take a look at our second listing, which is 360 randolph avenue. it's a little more expensive, at $799,000. taxes are $6,000, four bedrooms, two and a half baths, square feet of 2,214. it looks lovely from the outside. >> it's very charming. it has a beautiful staircase, arched windows, french doors. it's in a wonderful area of hilton. i have had a lot of friends who grew up there. it's across fr

and finally with the occupation of dorchester heights, which involved one of the great stories of newengland history of a bookseller, henry knox going out to the fort ticonderoga and returning with the cannons, the some of which would be placed on dorchester heights and forced the evacuation of the british. boston went from being a city that had been occupied to being a city that had to pull itself together. this had been a devastating experience for everyone. and 9,000 soldiers left along with about a thousand loyalists never to return and the bostonian is what filter back into the town had been beat up terribly. many structures had been burned as the british tried to heat themselves in the winter. but by and large, they had survived. and i would like to end mauney remarks by quoting a passage from a sermon that was delivered by the reverend samuel cooper on april 7, 1776. his first after the evacuation of the british. much as we have seen boston in the past few weeks, his had been a community that had seen the worst of times, but they had made it through. so he delivered the sermon.

grew up in the boston area, live in different parts of boston, went to a catholic high school in dorchester, which is a section of boston. because of my parents work and the opportunities they gave me, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university. it was intense. i stayed there for college, for law school, and i also have a master's in public policy there. those are subjects i decided to study in part because i was very study in part because i was very interested in public service and

and then eventually in march 17, 1776, the british would be forced to evacuate the arming of dorchesterheights and i will get to that later but that is the art i wanted to tell in the story with the attack of tensions with the air rifle of the boston port act and then with of the evacuation. so when i began this research almost immediately, i realized the characters i was right focus on because what was happening as the tensions building in boston is the continental congress met for the first time in philadelphia in the fall of 1774 which meant the leaders such as john adams and ann adams were out of town when all of this was beginning to unleash and the tensions were escalating with the boston port act but it was really an act that followed this , the massachusetts governor's act that robbed the talon moly of its commercial way of life but it is government, the entire province lost the town meetings were basically outlawed except for an annual one and the town meetings had been -- they had been the fundamental way of life in the town and they have also been the fundamental lifeblood of

mary's county over into dorchester county and over towards ocean city. baltimore does look mainly try. you can see how clouds in virginia can move back in at any time. it is going to be a mix of clouds and sun. here is the unstable boundary that we have been talking about, hanging around for days. it is now down to our south but lifting back up to the north. that is where we are going to talk about isolated showers and storms. for today, a mix of clouds and sun, becoming more humid. you cannot rule out a shower. a few neighborhoods will get them. you are going to have a lot of time for dry weather. be moving upwill into the mid 80's we will see a lot of cloud cover during the evening but then the skies become partly cloudy again tonight. we will see areas of fog beginning to develop. the temperatures fall to the 70's downtown and 60's as you step into the suburbs. the meteor shower continues tomorrow morning. if you are lucky enough to get a break in the cloud cover you may get a chance to see that before sunrise. it will be up at 6:17 tomorrow. isolated

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. >> before i let you go, i want to ask you quickly, you'll have perspective as dorchester, boston native, started career there, ultimately became police commissioner. i wanted to get your reaction to the verdict in the whitey bulger trial. >> justice was long overdue in this matter. justice has finally been served. i worked as a sergeant in the south washington area in the 1970s just as bulger was beginning his rise and was chief of police in the '80s and early '90s when all of the controversies that were outlined in that trial arose. it was an incredibly difficult time. happy to see it finally come to a successful conclusion. unfortunately they didn't find him guilty of all the murders he participated in, but justice was finally served to a great degree. >> perhaps the symbolic end of the old southie as it were. thanks to both of you, we appreciate it. >>> moving onto the battle for the senate in the state of new jersey after a primary campaign dash voters are going to the polls in the special election to fill long time senator frank lautenberg. cory booker up against a wild field of de

she went to dorchester high school.he was a very bright woman and she herself strove for perfection in all things so she was trying to be the perfect student and usually looked up to her own high standards. she thought she was ready to go to wellesley and probably was. the story is that the archbishop of boston encountered her father the mayor of boston and said this wouldn't be a very good idea politically for you, the irish catholic mayor of boston to send your daughter and her eldest child to a non-catholic institution. so that thwarted her plan and she addressed doris kearns goodwin that was one of the saddest days of her life and she regretted for the rest of her life. [inaudible] >> guest: i point out that the picture on the front of the book head first i was a bit distracted by the water that seems to be in the forefront and i decided this was the perfect metaphor for rose kennedy. if you will notice it's exactly half full with water. that was how grows -- rose feud life. she was the eternal optimist and it doesn

she went to dorchester. she was a very brave woman and she herself strove for perfection. she thought she was ready to go to wellesley,. this story as to what the encountered a father and said this would not make an idea for you to send your daughter to a non catholic institution. so that forces your plan and she expressed that that was one of the saddest moments of her life and regretted it. >> a woman he did not express much regret. >> she did not. i often point up the picture on the front of the book. first there was distracted by the goblet of water. at decided this is the perfect metaphor because it is exactly half full, and that is how she usually viewed life. she was the eternal optimist. it did not imply that she has had moments does is try to keep this optimistic upbeat approach to life. in addition, not being able, sent away, convents, not the issue of his card to come undone but had fallen in love with her future husband as a teenager. we think that was part of the reason. to get her away from joe kennedy the kennedy fitzgerald's, not complete approving. indeed.

i had known the night before after writing my column, i stopped off at the erie pub in dorchester. i did it for two reasons. i really needed a drink. i was starving. after the bomb, i realized i hasn't eatened. they have a great corn beef sandwich. as i was walking into the pub, a deputy fire chief joe penn a great fireman grabbed me. he had his i phone. he said this is shawn, shawn o'brien. he said, i can't get him out of the house. i said, what do you mean, talk to him? shawn, kevin, come have a drink with me and joe. he said, no, i don't want to come out. i said, later. i said to joe, was shawn at the scene? he said shawn found the kid. that's when i found out the boy had died. i wasn't to kill him on that spot. later told me shawn was really upset obviously. this was the story i found that night. that every firefighter on engine 7 knew the richard family. kevin me and the chauffeur, that is what they called the driver. kevin his daughter baby sat martin. the the other two, eddy kelly, his daughter is in the same irish step dance class as janie who lost her leg. the lieutenant's

who is a friend of i had known the night before after writing my column, i off at the erie pub in dorchester. i did it for two reasons. i really needed a drink. i was starving. after the bomb, i realized i hasn't eatened. they have a great corn beef sandwich. the pub, alking into deputy fire chief joe penn a great fireman grabbed me. had his i phone. he said this is shawn, shawn o'brien. get him out of the house. mean, talk t do you to him? shawn, kevin, come have a drink me and joe. e said, no, i don't want to come out. i said, later. shawn at the was scene? he said shawn found the kid. that's when i found out the boy had died. i wasn't to kill him on that spot. later told me shawn was really obviously. this was the story i found that night. that every firefighter on engine richard family. kevin me and the chauffeur, that called the driver. evin his daughter baby sat martin. the the other two, eddy kelly, in the same is janie tep dance class as who lost her leg. the lieutenant's kid is in with henry. but shawn o'brien, the firefighter who came to martin's body, his daughter, eva, is in as s