Commentary

MassGOP Chairman Must Be A Realist

Ed Lyons

Our Massachusetts Republican Party will have an election for party chairman on Wednesday, January 25. The chairman controls the state party office on Merrimac Street in Boston, where a small staff works to grow the party and win elections.

Kirsten Hughes, our current chairman, is up for re-election against State Committee member Steve Aylward. She is a strong supporter of Governor Charlie Baker, who has brought money, dignity, and hope to a party that desperately needs it. Under Baker and Hughes, the party brand makes sense to most people in our state. The MassGOP is a moderate, ideologically flexible party that reaches out to all kinds of people to win elections. Considering we are only about 10 percent of the voters, it's the only strategy that makes sense.

With Trump, Fairer Weather May Be Blowing This Way
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With Trump, Fairer Weather May Be Blowing This Way

Frank Conte

BOSTON — New England wasn't in Donald Trump's corner in November but the region may benefit from the new president's policies, regional economists said this week.

The performance of all New England states varies over time but they often move in sync. The bottom-line consensus from this week's meeting of economists is that the region's economy may improve if Trump gets Congress to approve his program of increased spending on defense and infrastructure and corporate tax reform that can repatriate overseas profits. Such profits could translate into domestic capital investment.

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