Long-time public servant Harry Spence is being remembered as someone who enjoyed trying to improve troubled agencies in Massachusetts.
Spence died of heart failure this week. He was 74 years old.
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A groundbreaking Black woman in state and city government, Doris Bunte dies at 87
By Bryan Marquard Globe Staff,Updated February 15, 2021, 7:56 p.m.
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Mrs. Bunte (left, with longtime friend Deborah McBraver) was honored by the Boston Housing Authority in 2018, with the Walnut Park Apartments renamed the Doris Bunte Apartments.Jonathan Wiggs
Doris Bunte arrived in Boston in 1953 with 98 cents to her name â and then a dime less after she bought a candy bar â before rising to become, for a time, arguably the most powerful woman in Boston politics.
âI think I was born working,â she said with a smile in a 1974 Globe interview. âI pasted feathers on hats and painted buttons on spindles. Then I folded towels and did domestic work for rich people in Brookline.â