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Ryan covers city politics and is the last remaining journalist working every day out of the press bureau in Boston City Hall. Prior to joining the Globe in 2006, he wrote for the Associated Press in Boston, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, The Day in New London, Conn., and the Highbridge Horizon in the Bronx.
Sixty-one people have tentatively qualified to appear on Boston ballots as a torrent of candidates vie for mayor and City Council.
Roughly half of the candidates hoping to become mayor earn more than double the city’s annual median household income of almost $52,000.
Mayor Thomas Menino was released from the hospital, a week after he underwent surgery for an enlarged prostate.
David James Wyatt became the tenth Boston mayoral candidate to qualify for the ballot Wednesday when election officials verified that he had submitted signatures from at least 3,000 registered voters.