It turns out liberal billionaire Tom Steyer's environmental super PAC was totally involved in promoting investigations into ExxonMobil and global warming skeptics by state attorneys general.
With most lawmakers on hiatus from Beacon Hill, spending time in their districts or working on their reelection campaigns, a skeleton crew convened Thursday in the House and Senate where bills allocating local liquor licenses were flowing like beers at the Cask 'n Flagon before a Red Sox game.
The Senate on Thursday engrossed a bill to authorize Acton to issue 22 new liquor licenses and another to allow Westborough to grant eight new licenses. The Legislature also advanced bills to allow Fairhaven, Foxborough, Salem, Tisbury, Huntington and Beverly to issue new liquor licenses.
