Thomas Menino, former Boston mayor, has died at age 71
Former Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and co-director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University died Thursday. He was 71 and diagnosed with an advanced cancer shortly after leaving office in January.
Thomas Menino, Boston’s Longest-Serving Mayor, Dies at 71
Thomas Menino, the longest-serving mayor of Boston and a popular figure who oversaw the once-gritty city’s transformation into a cultural and commercial hub, died Thursday. He was 71 years old. Mr. Menino’s spokesman confirmed the death. Mr. Menino had been battling advanced cancer.
Thomas M. Menino, elected five times as Boston’s mayor, dies at 71
Thomas M. Menino, Boston’s longest-serving mayor, who gained support from working-class neighborhood “townies” and corporate chieftains alike during his 20 years in office and presided over a steel-and-glass economic boom in one of America’s most historic cities, died Oct. 30 in Boston. He was 71.
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Menino settles into brownstone on Bay State Road for position at BU
After 20 years spent in City Hall Square, former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino settled into his new quarters Monday at 75 Bay State Road on the Boston University campus.
Menino has transitioned from mayor of a major city to co-director of BU’s Initiative on Cities, an extended project that will explore the successes of major cities in order to lend resources and insight to struggling cities across the world.
In His Final Speech, Mayor Menino Reflected on What’s Changed
Tom Menino delivered his final speech as mayor of Boston to the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Tuesday morning. He offered as a thesis that “the thing that makes a city most is change, the fact that something new is always just around the corner.
Mayor Menino a Welcome Addition to BU
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Students and faculty welcomed the announcement yesterday by President Robert A. Brown that outgoing Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino (Hon.’01) will join BU in February as codirector of the Initiative on Cities (IoC), a new center that will invite leaders of cities around the world to share their hands-on knowledge with academics and scholars from BU and other universities.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino headed to Boston University to help run new Initiative on Cities
Mayor Thomas M. Menino will trade City Hall for the halls of academia at Boston University, where administrators hope to meld the mayor’s pragmatism as an “urban mechanic’’ with the scholarly muscle of a major university.