Yvonne Abraham

Yvonne Abraham

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  • Auditory delights

    Forget the governor’s race. If you’re looking for real fun this state election season, you have to go down-ballot.

  • A jury and the jeers

    He’s been getting calls from his buddies since the news broke Sunday. Look what you did, they’re saying.

  • Don’t assume the worst

    Say you see a bunch of white 19-year-olds hanging out on a street corner in Lexington one summer afternoon. Chances are, you assume they’re home from college.

  • Disturbing signals

    BROCKTON - What on earth was she thinking? Watching Dr . Kayoko Kifuji testify in Plymouth Superior Court this week, you have to wonder.

  • Work cut out for them

    Eight unemployed men and women were leaning against a red-tiled wall outside a job center here Friday morning, waiting to check on their benefits, and weighing their new spot in the middle of the national shouting match.

  • Now the postmortem

    Time to tally the spoils and count the bodies. There are piles of both in the aftermath of Tuesday’s special Senate election: lots of winners beyond Scott Brown and the GOP and many losers besides Attorney General Martha Coakley and the strategists who helped her to this humiliating, unimaginable defeat.

  • Law school dramatics

    The Scott and Martha show isn’t the only political drama playing out around here. Here’s another, unfolding largely out of view.

  • Brown’s failure

    I don’t know what’s worse: that Scott Brown tried to weaken a law guaranteeing emergency contraception to rape victims, or that he now claims he can’t remember doing it. Or maybe it’s that, now that he’s running for US Senate, he’s dragging his daughters into the controversy to protect himself.

  • A mother’s life work

    There are people who have everything a person might want and still can’t hold it together. Then there are people whose lives should fall apart, and who somehow manage to stitch themselves whole.

  • Even rules have risks

    Never work alone at night. Don’t leave the counter if you don’t know the customer. If it’s late and slow, close early. Don’t show fear, or word will get around the neighborhood. Don’t be a tough guy: If somebody demands the cash, hand it over.

  • You heard their cries

    SPRINGFIELD - You are Maria Dickerson’s guardian angels. You read the story of this remarkable woman who took in four children after they awoke one Sunday to discover their mother’s lifeless body on the kitchen floor. She had been murdered by her boyfriend, leaving her children alone in the world.

  • Madness on the road

    Pull me over, officer. Use your flashing lights and your siren, so that I’m humiliated. Take your time, so I’m really late for whatever I’m going to. Write me a ticket so big it hurts. Make me feel every inch the irrational twit that I am.

  • The world’s a stage

    Amose Pierre stands on a stage at the front of a cavernous hall in Codman Square. She is grinning, fidgety, a little embarrassed.

  • Support Main Street

    READING - Walking on Reading’s Main Street a couple of days ago, it was impossible not to feel all “It’s a Wonderful Life.’’

  • Pride - and trepidation

    No matter where you stand politically, yesterday was a historic day for our purportedly progressive state.

  • The lessons they learned in their times of trial

    Sometimes, it’s easy to forget political candidates are real people. We see them sniping at one another in print and in person, reciting their stump speeches over and over, extolling their own virtues in scripted 30-second ads. They can seem almost robotic: It’s difficult to imagine them dealing with the kinds of problems that real people face.

  • A befitting indignation

    Anger isn’t always bad. Some people are chilled by Mike Capuano’s chippiness, put off by his pugilism, repelled by his riled-upedness.

  • Redemption, and gratitude

    If I could, I’d like to be, a great big movie star... Bobcat Smith stands in a dark apartment in a Roxbury housing development, arms outstretched, singing. Decades of bad decisions may have taken their toll on the rest of him, but his voice is still rich and sweet, like a Neville brother’s.

  • A reversal of fortune

    CAMBRIDGE - It’s about time state Senator Anthony Galluccio’s remarkable good luck finally ran dry.

  • Vacillating to victory

    It’s been a big week in the race to succeed the late Ted Kennedy in the US Senate.

  • Yvonne Abraham: Leave Ted Kennedy out of the race to fill his Senate seat

    Let’s face it: Martha Coakley is no Ted Kennedy. Neither is Mike Capuano. Nor Alan Khazei. Nor Steve Pagliuca.