BOSTON, Jan. 3. -- Josiah Quincy, ex-Mayor of Boston and ex-Assistant Secretary of State, has been forced into bankruptcy owing, he says, to misplaced confidence in others, as well as to mistakes ...

Josiah Quincy strove for academic freedom ... However, he presided at the final Boston town meeting and would have been elected first mayor save for factional politics. Mayor Phillips retired ...

The state has cleared the way for Boston’s Long Island Bridge to be rebuilt. MassDEP rejected an appeal by Quincy’s mayor and upheld its prior issuance of a state waterways permit that allows ...

Chris Walker, chief-of-staff to Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch, said the city would again appeal the decision in Massachusetts Superior Court. Before Boston begins construction of the new bridge ...

MassDEP granted Boston a key license to rebuild the Long Island Bridge, where the city plans to build a public health campus. Quincy vowed to appeal.