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The new speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives has taken campaign contributions from defense contractors, banks, police unions, and the alcohol industry, according to state records. Ron Mariano (D-Quincy), 74, has served in the House since 1991. He recently took the place of former speaker Robert DeLeo, under whom
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The Massachusetts Republican State Committee was divided, but they ended up choosing to stick with incumbent Republican Party Chairman Jim Lyons when it came down to a vote on Sunday afternoon. He topped Rep. Shawn Dooley (R-Norfolk) in the vote 39-36, winning another two years in the position.
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Jim Lyons will be the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party for at least another term. On Sunday, Lyons won his re-election bid in a vote that included 75 members of the Republican State Committee. Of those 75, 39 voted for Lyons, and 36 voted for state Representative Shawn Dooley
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The Tuesday, January 5 runoff elections in Georgia that will determine control of the U.S. Senate are shaping up as a test of how the health care issue works politically for the Democrats. It's not so much the coronavirus response that that Democratic candidates are emphasizing but
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In many respects, 2020 was not a good year in the United States, or Massachusetts for that matter. The coronavirus has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. Government responses to the pandemic have killed jobs and permanently shuttered businesses. Liberal and progressive Democrats swept the Congressional races and maintained their
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Extended vote-counting, protracted litigation, and President Donald Trump's reluctance to concede the 2020 presidential election have held the Republican Party back from the usual work of losers in a national election, which is self-examination. Part of this may be the result of the better-than-expected showing of Republicans in
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Massachusetts state legislators worked out a budget for the state government for the current fiscal year recently. With $45.9 billion in the budget and various non-monetary provisions, the budget is far from perfect. On the bright side, state Representative Nika Elugardo (D-Jamaica Plain) successfully sponsored a provision that removes
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