In This Week's Phoenix: Wilkerson/Chang-Diaz

Normally I give you a heads-up before everybody and their brother have read it, but I've been out of town so I'm just telling you now about my article in the latest issue of the Boston Phoenix. It's about the state senate rematch between incumbent Dianne Wilkerson and Sonia Chang-Diaz.

And as you may have heard, on Friday Wilkerson reached an agreement with the state attorney general's office concerning a variety of alleged campaign-financing irregularities. Wilkerson is not getting off lightly -- aside from everything else, the agreement essentially validates the legitimacy of the complaints as a campaign issue -- but she is at least able to put a period on it and not worry about the ongoing case generating news over the next several weeks.