Cusack’s legislation would lower the amount of renewable energy the utilities would be required to purchase and cut the state’s energy efficiency initiative, which is funded through the utilities’ ratepayers, by $500 million.
Lobbying
Posted inState Government
Beacon Hill lobbying still buoyed by health care interests
New data shows that lobbying remained a lucrative industry in the first half of 2025, especially for firms that count health care companies among their clients.
Posted inState Government
Health care cash rained on Mass. lobbying world in 2024
At a time when lawmakers are wrestling with cost, access and regulatory questions, health care industry power players continued to dominate the Beacon Hill lobbying world last year, spending the most on employing influential insiders who sway development of public policy.
Posted inOpinion
The case for more Black lobbyists
Massachusetts has elected a Black governor, a Black attorney general, Black state senators and state representatives. There are Black heads of departments and secretariats. But there are virtually no Black lobbyists on Beacon Hill.
Posted inArts and Culture
Not easy turning artists into a political force on Beacon Hill
Paradoxically, the reason that artists need state support so desperately is the same reason they are often missing in political mobilizing: they are strapped for time and money.
Posted inState Government
Lobbying activity picking up on Beacon Hill
Health care is where the big money gets spent in state government, and that’s where lobbying money is spent as well
Posted inOpinion
A big chunk of lobbying in Mass. is not tracked
IN MARCH, Professor Julia Payson of New York University addressed a small group who had gathered at Boston University’s Initiative on Cities to hear about the new book she wrote […]
Posted inCourts, State House News Service
SJC agrees to hear moot DiMasi case
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A YEAR AND A DAY after the case was rendered moot by the calendar, the Supreme Judicial Court last week decided that it will nonetheless rule […]
Posted inThe Download
Health care fuels first-half lobbying
The State House remains closed to the public, but the business of lobbying on Beacon Hill keeps rolling along, particularly in health care. According to data gathered by Secretary of […]
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Health care fuels first-half lobbying
THE STATE HOUSE remains closed to the public, but the business of lobbying on Beacon Hill keeps rolling along, particularly in health care. According to data gathered by Secretary of […]
Posted inUncategorized
Lobbying expenditures totaled $85.6m in 2020
THE STATE HOUSE is closed these days because of COVID-19, but for the most part businesses and other advocacy groups are continuing to hire lobbyists to represent their interests on […]
Posted inPolitics
Getting a handle on Beacon Hill advocates, coalitions
HOUSE SPEAKER RON MARIANO recently announced that he was asking the House Rules Committee to take a look at the rules around “unregistered, or vaguely-affiliated, advocates and coalitions.” Mariano’s pronouncement […]
Posted inUncategorized
Lobbying remains lucrative during pandemic
[CORRECTION: Due to a reporting error, an earlier version of this story and the chart on lobbying firm revenues contained inaccurate information about the revenues of the Suffolk Group. Revenues during […]
Posted inState House News Service, Uncategorized
Judge rules DiMasi can work as lobbyist
FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER Sal DiMasi was cleared on Thursday to register as a lobbyist by a Superior Court judge who overturned Secretary of State William Galvin’s decision to reject DiMasi’s […]
Posted inPolitics
New No. 1 among Mass. lobbying firms
SMITH COSTELLO & CRAWFORD vaulted into the top spot among Massachusetts lobbying firms in 2019, raking in $4.2 million in fees and displacing the prior king-of-the-hill, ML Strategies. Smith Costello […]
Posted inState House News Service, Uncategorized
DiMasi: ‘I’ve paid my debt to society’
FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER Salvatore DiMasi on Tuesday made a public appeal for a “second chance” after his conviction on federal corruption charges eight years ago, resuming his battle with Secretary […]
Posted inUncategorized
Marijuana fuels lobbying firm’s growth
RIDING STRONG REVENUES from marijuana clients, the firm of Smith, Costello & Crawford edged out ML Strategies as the lobbying company with the most revenue during the first half of […]
Posted inPolitics
Beacon Hill lobbying hierarchy changing a bit
THE PECKING ORDER of lobbying firms on Beacon Hill appears to be changing. ML Strategies set a record in 2018 for lobbying fees, raking in $5.1 million and retaining its […]
Posted inUncategorized
ML Strategies lobbying fees hit record level in 2018
ML STRATEGIES REPORTED nearly $5.2 million in lobbying fees last year, breaking the previous record of just over $4 million that the company set in 2016. The company, the lobbying […]
Posted inPolitics
Baddour to join ML Strategies
FORMER STATE SENATOR STEVEN BADDOUR, his colleague Daniel Connelly, and their Massachusetts lobbying clients are leaving McDermott, Will & Emery to join ML Strategies, the lobbying arm of Mintz Levin […]