Politics
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MARCH 15, 2012…..Describing a "war" on Beacon Hill over mandatory minimum sentence policies, a freshman lawmaker contended Thursday that most of his colleagues voted to crack down on habitual felons last year without understanding the... Read more
US Sen. Scott Brown and former Obama administration official Elizabeth Warren have spent months criss-crossing the state on their Senate campaigns, reaching out to voters and battling one another through press releases.
On Sunday, the Wrentham Republican... Read more
Months after federal officials passed over their initial proposal for funding, the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is renewing its pursuit of federal dollars to complete the Neponset Greenway trail.
Community activists and state... Read more
A hearing for a plea change has been set for next week in the campaign finance violation case of former state Rep. Brian Wallace. The South Boston Democrat and his campaign treasurer at the time were indicted last year by a Suffolk grand jury for... Read more
A Beacon Hill committee has endorsed a bill that aims to increase diversity on the site of state construction projects. The Legislature’s Joint Committee on State Administration and Oversight signed off on the bill last week. If it becomes law, it would... Read more
The Patrick administration and its legislative allies on Beacon Hill are once again pinning the future of the long-delayed Neponset Greenway expansion on winning a federal grant worth almost $12 million.
The state’s application for the federal grant is a... Read more
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, MARCH 14, 2012…... Despite warnings from Republican lawmakers that foot-dragging threatened to derail talks, the House’s lead negotiator on a sweeping, high-stakes crime and sentencing package guaranteed Wednesday that a deal would... Read more
A hearing for a plea change has been set for next week in the campaign finance violation case of former state Rep. Brian Wallace. The South Boston Democrat and his former campaign treasurer were indicted last year by a Suffolk grand jury for allegedly... Read more
Boston residents who say they live in Hyde Park despite a zip code placing their homes in Mattapan say they hope to have a response from the US Postal Service next month.
Barbara Hamilton, a member of the East River Neighborhood Association, spearheaded... Read more
An intra-party squabble spiced up an otherwise sleepy Super Tuesday as a state representative from South Boston and an activist from Dorchester faced off for a state Democratic Party committee slot. Craig Galvin, a Dorchester Democrat who unsuccessfully... Read more
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