The Race For Mayor

The already vast sea of candidates vying to become the next mayor of Boston got even wider yesterday when Charlotte Golar Richie — a former aide to Governor Deval Patrick and former chief of Boston's Department of Neighborhood Development — became the the first major female candidate to enter the race. She joins 23 others who have filed for nomination papers, and with just a few weeks to gather the 3,000 signatures needed to appear on the primary ballot, the heat is on.

Peter Ubertaccio, chairman of the political science department at Stonehill College.