Twenty years after Massachusetts passed landmark health care reform legislation that gave the state the highest rate of insurance coverage in the country, the leading players behind the law gathered in the same storied meeting hall where the 2006 bill was signed to celebrate their uncommon achievement.
Bill Weld
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MassGOP goofs in swipe at Galvin
THE MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN PARTY appears to have missed a crucial detail when it lambasted the state’s top elections official and suggested he had no business including Bill Weld on the […]
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Markey and Kennedy should agree to spending cap
AS REP. JOE KENNEDY III challenges incumbent US Sen. Ed Markey, Democrats cannot afford to lose sight of the bigger picture. There is little risk of the party losing Markey’s […]
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Tiptoeing through the Trump era
WHILE GOV. CHARLIE BAKER staycations in Gloucester, his former boss clued everyone in on one reason why the popular moderate Republican is sitting out the biggest fight in politics right […]
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Tiptoeing through the Trump era
While Gov. Charlie Baker staycations in Gloucester, his former boss clued everyone in on one reason why the popular moderate Republican is sitting out the biggest fight in politics right […]
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Bill Weld’s longshot candidacy begins
THE PUBLIC MARVELED when Bill Weld dove into the Charles River in the summer of 1996. Now the two-time Massachusetts governor and former US attorney is plunging into an even […]
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Bill Weld’s longshot candidacy begins
The public marveled when Bill Weld dove into the Charles River in the summer of 1996. Now the two-time Massachusetts governor and former US attorney is plunging into an even […]
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Dukakis, Weld make last push for rail link
FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNORS Michael Dukakis and William Weld made one more push for state officials to revisit their $12 billion cost estimates for a connector tunnel between South and North […]
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Bill Weld mastered the classics – and disruption of education status quo
MASSACHUSETTS’ 68TH GOVERNOR, Bill Weld, might be the only state executive in a century who dreams in ancient languages and can effortlessly connect lessons from 5th-century B.C. Greek historians with […]
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The Codcast: The Libertarian team of Johnson and Weld
Bill Weld, the Libertarian candidate for vice president, showed he’s still got it during a CNN town hall Wednesday night. The former Massachusetts governor was clear, concise, and controversial. He […]
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Weld’s views ‘developing’ on criminal justice reform
WHEN HE RAN for governor in Massachusetts 26 years ago, Republican Bill Weld cut a more moderate profile on many social issues than his Democratic opponent, John Silber – a […]
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The Codcast: Weld flashes the old charm
William Weld made libertarianism sound like a political middle ground between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during an interview Tuesday night with CommonWealth magazine. The […]
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The return of Big Red
It’s an apt metaphor that the Libertarian Party is holding its convention next weekend in Orlando, Florida, the home of Disneyworld, because anyone who thinks the nominees for president and […]
Posted inThe Back Story, Transportation
The Dukakis-Weld rail link
FORMER GOVERNORS Mike Dukakis and Bill Weld are heading up to Beacon Hill next week to put a rail link between North and South stations on Gov. Charlie Baker’s radar. […]