Is Kenneth Yarbrough the newsletter Editor?...

When is he going to help stop the murders of all the poor kids in his district? If he spent the same time outreaching to kids he might have saved a life or two.

ooh , mcgrory goes on his idea of a warpath and this is the best he can come up with-yancey. nothing about council at lard members murphy, ross and linehan , lamma whatever. at least yancey stood up for his friend chuck turner which is more than you can say for the rest of the council who stand for nothing save reelection. btw brian, if your good buddy the nitwut bagman mayor was a horse what kind would he be? methinks a BREWED MARE(mayor) as this nitwit takes money from every liquor entity under the son and probably over it to. ma

I am sorry, I just don't see an issue here that requires an entire column. So, Councilor Yancey's newsletter shows in photos what he has been doing for the district and city. So what? We get to see Brian McGrory's face, or at least the artist rendition of his face, with each column. I have no problem with that either. ;-)

not at all impressed by him..and he represents my area..what does he do for the community?

Brian, what politician doesn't promote themselves? As far as I'm concerned, it's part of their job to communicate what they're doing. Some of the younger pols do it on a daily basis thru Twitter and Facebook, what's the difference?? At least Yancey makes an effort to tell his constituents what he's doing month to month. And Yancey's base in hardly the Twitter/FB crowd, so good for him for getting it out to the district so heavily. It's obviosuly working- he won something like 90 percent of the vote last year. I get the Yancey newsletter by email and, yeah, there's more than enough photos of the councilor. But he always puts in stuff about issues and speaks out on where he stands on things that are coming before the council. I even sometimes see stuff in there that's not in the Globe or even the weekly papers. What's so bad about that?

Self-promotion is not lost among the pols, and certainly Steve Grossman, who closely resembled Alfred E. Newman, never met a camera or a newspaper reporter he didn't like. After all, he has been known to say, he deserves the recognition because he's spent so long in the trenches, the 'grass roots' as he's is wont to say. Yancy is of the same ilk, only has a keener appetite. But self-promotion seems the order of the day at The Boston Globe, too. Just look at those scintillating video clips of ink-stained wretches like...um, Brian McGrory, for example, and you'll realize we aren't learning a thing nor adding to our compendium of knowledge about journalism. It's about selling papers. And the pols are simply doing the same thing.

This is considered worthy of print? Really? No wonder so many folks go in on the Boston Globe. I've read your work before and this is an embarrassment to it. There's absolutely nothing of substance here except a dig at a politician who is cognizant of the fact that getting reelected means you need to make sure people know who you are. I'm not applauding all the self-promotion, but it's not really worthy of print.