Barney Frank, My Dad, and the Boston They Remade

Sometime around 1970, Barney Frank called the head of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, all worked up.

Back then, Frank was the top aide to Boston Mayor Kevin White.

Elected in 1968, White was a reformer, at least at first.

And he’d empowered the BRA director, a guy named Hale Champion, to professionalize the agency by […] ...