SEN. SCOTT BROWN has staked his reelection efforts to the notion of bipartisanship. When Brown talks about being a bipartisan senator, he’s talking about voting with Democrats on Capitol Hill. […]
Brown’s bipartisan money
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
State board strips pension from Finneran
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEMORE THAN FIVE YEARS after former House Speaker Thomas Finneran pled guilty to obstruction of justice, the State Retirement Board on Thursday voted to strip the […]
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Scott Brown’s partisan problem
The second most bipartisan member of the Senate has a Republican problem. And his potential GOP colleagues are not helping him any. If there’s anyone in Massachusetts who has not […]
Posted inEconomy, State House News Service
Advantage Amazon
Correction: An earlier version of this story mispelled “Ronald Mann.” WITH BLACK FRIDAY not far off, business leaders and municipal officials have been clamoring for the Patrick administration to act […]
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Jill Stein and friends fight the good fight
Quick: Who is the only presidential candidate to be arrested this year? Answer: Lexington’s Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president, was arrested at the Hofstra University town hall […]
Posted inEnvironment, State House News Service
Boston ranks 9th in clean tech
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEBuoyed by its academic research centers, Boston ranks among the top 10 metro regions in the country for its use and development of clean technology, though it […]
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The Herald’s own case of Romnesia
There were two presidential debates last night: one viewed by huge swaths of the electorate, and whatever was streamed into the Boston Herald’s new offices on D Street. Most folks […]
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A heads-up for youth sports
Buried inside the Globe’s Sunday sports section was a story about a Pop Warner football game last month where five children between the ages of 10 and 12 suffered concussions. […]
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Scott Brown’s unforced error
What in the world was Scott Brown thinking? In a campaign appearance in Taunton on Wednesday, Brown charged that paid actors were portraying relatives of victims of asbestos-related illnesses in […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, The Back Story
Cop in a lab coat
SHE WAS A forensic chemist who put her finger on the scale of justice, continually testifying and confirming that evidence brought to her by police and prosecutors was, in fact, […]
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Women — can’t win without ’em
Everyone seems to be going after the women’s vote. But nobody, it appears, knows exactly what the “women’s vote” is except that they want it and it’s key to being […]
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Warren takes lead in TV spending
Elizabeth Warren’s campaign put an exclamation point on one of the most expensive Senate races in history when it announced this week that it had raised more than $12 million […]
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Obama, John Elway matter; Ross Perot not so much
To the surprise of exactly no one, President Obama endorsed Elizabeth Warren for the US Senate. The POTUS stamp of approval can’t hurt. Expect Warren to run with the endorsement […]
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The Senate money pit
Campaign fundraising by Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown continues apace, which is to say it is happening at ridiculous levels. Brown, who used to have a campaign war chest that […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics, State House News Service
State makes plans for revenue falloff
State House News Service In the face of economic risksand uncertainty three months into the fiscal year, the Patrick administration is capping full-time equivalent employees at current levels and taking […]
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For Patrick, the heat is on
Gov. Deval Patrick’s breakfast cereal yesterday probably didn’t go down too smoothly if he ate it while reading the Sunday Globe. The front of the paper’s Metro section featured a […]
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Boston braces for crime surge from state lab scandal
What was interesting about Thursday’s press conference at Boston City Hall on how the city plans to cope with the fallout of the Annie Dookhan scandal was who showed up […]
Posted inEconomy, Education, Politics
Waiver warfare
of the domestic policy achievements of the past two decades, most would agree the two biggest are the welfare reform law of 1996 and the No Child Left Behind education […]
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Tracking the cash
after decades of shrugging off campaign finance disclosure mandates, Massachusetts lawmakers have finally turned the tide in reporting what their donors do for a living, giving watchdogs the tools to […]
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‘No money’ Mike Connolly
BY HIS OWN admission, “No Money” Mike Connolly has made hundreds of people laugh by telling them he is running for state representative but not accepting any campaign donations. But Connolly, […]
Posted inEconomy
Half full or half empty?
from the sound bites blanketing the airwaves, it’s clear that politicians everywhere are concerned about the impact of the recession and slow recovery on the middle class. Elected leaders intuitively […]
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High-stakes test
Photographs by Michael Manning JEFF RILEY RECEIVED a fairly consistent piece of advice when he was considering the offer to become receiver for the Lawrence public schools, the person in […]
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Here comes StateStat
FOLLOWING THE LEAD of many cities and towns across the country, the state of Massachusetts is launching a program to harness more data that can be used to sharpen government […]