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Thomas Menino, Boston's Longest Serving Mayor, Dies At 71

NPR | By Delores Handy

Published October 30, 2014 at 1:40 PM EDT

Picture of Boston's longest-serving mayor, Thomas Menino. The former mayor died on October 30, 2014. He was 71. (Elise Amendola/AP)

Thomas M. Menino, the longest-serving mayor in Boston history, who guided the city for 20 transformative years, has died at age 71.

Just after 9 a.m. Thursday morning, he “passed into eternal rest after a courageous [battle] with cancer,” his spokeswoman said in a statement.

From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Delores Handy of WBUR has this remembrance of the former mayor.

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Delores Handy, reporter for WBUR in Boston. She tweets @deloreshandy.

Delores Handy