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Will Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey run for governor in 2022?
She hasn't announced that decision yet.
Boston city councilor Lydia Edwards (D-East Boston) will most likely end up being a member of the Massachusetts Senate next year.
The progressive Democrat, who supported 12 weeks of paid abortion leave for both men and women as a member of the Boston city council, won a Massachusetts Senate special election primary earlier this month. It took place on December 14, 2021 in the First Suffolk and Middlesex District.
She defeated Revere school committee member Anthony D'Ambrosio, the more moderate Democrat of the two in the race. Edwards got 60.2 percent and D'Ambrosio got 39.6 percent. That means Edwards advanced to the special general election on Tuesday, January 11, 2022; she appears to be running unopposed. Assuming she wins that election, Edwards will go on to fill the seat vacated by Democrat Joe Boncore of Cambridge back in September; Boncore resigned to become the chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council.
This past September, an ordinance for the city of Boston put together by three city councilors — Edwards, then-at-large city councilor (and current mayor) Michelle Wu, and now-outgoing city councilor Anissa Essaibi George — passed unanimously. It granted Boston's city employees up to 12 weeks of paid leave for pregnancy loss, including termination, as NewBostonPost reported last month. The policy applies to both women and men and offers the same leave benefits for abortion as the city does for childbirth.
The city's paid leave scheme offers employees 100 percent of their base wages during the first four weeks of leave, then 75 percent for the next four weeks, and 50 percent for the last four weeks of leave.