Politics
The most elusive candidate in last year’s mayoral race is back on the ballot, this time vying for state Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz’s seat in the 2nd Suffolk district. David James Wyatt collected enough signatures in the spring to make the Nov. 4 ballot, but... Read more
Throwing the landscape for casinos in Massachusetts into chaos, the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled on Tuesday that an initiative petition repealing the 2011 casino law is eligible for placement on the November ballot.
The ruling sets up an intense... Read more
Raise Up Massachusetts, a group that had gathered signatures to put a minimum wage increase on the November ballot, said Monday they are ending their campaign. The group will continue to push for a ballot question guaranteeing earned sick time for workers... Read more
Cindy and Dermot Quinn, owners of Greenhills Bakery, pose with Dorchester elected officials Michelle Wu, Stephen Lynch, Warren Tolman, Steven Tompkins, Daniel Cullinane, and Frank Baker outside the bakery early Monday afternoon. Photo by Lauren Dezenski... Read more
Boston is among four U.S. cities in the running for a potential 2024 Olympic Summer Games bid, the U.S. Olympics Committee reported Friday.
Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington D.C. are also in the hunt with the largest city in New England.
“I think... Read more
Recap and analysis of the week in state government
Thanks for playing “So You Want To Be Governor: Insiders Edition.”
Saturday’s contestants are Martha Coakley, the prosecutor; Steve Grossman, the treasurer; Don Berwick, the doctor and health bureaucrat... Read more
If state Rep. Dan Hunt has his way, some $250,000 will soon find its way to the rehabilitation of Tenean Beach, long seen as needing substantial re-engineering.
Hunt has filed amendments to the House’s environmental bond bill one of which would help... Read more
The Metropolitan Beaches Commission has released “Waves of Change,” its report on the Boston Harbor region’s 15 public beaches in Nahant, Lynn, Revere, Winthrop, East Boston, South Boston, Dorchester, Quincy, and Hull that are owned by the Commonwealth... Read more
House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s new proposal to reduce gun violence has barely emerged with a favorable report from a legislative committee, foreshadowing a potentially turbulent reception in the full House and Senate.
The Public Safety Committee’s co-... Read more
Attorney General Martha Coakley continues to hold a commanding lead over her four rivals for the Democratic nomination for governor, according to a new Suffolk University poll that also shows voter opinion shifting dramatically against the state’s nascent... Read more
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