Boston Herald: U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, the openly gay Newton Democrat who announced his retirement in November, plans to marry his longtime partner in a Massachusetts ceremony, Frank's spokesman confirmed yesterday. There is no timetable for when Frank, 71, and his partner, 42-year-old Jim Ready, plan to marry, said spokesman Harry Gural, nor did he say where a ceremony will take place other than to say it will be in the commonwealth.