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BOSTON — A right-of-center Beacon Hill public money watchdog outfit is praising the federal indictment of former state Senator Brian Joyce on a slew of racketeering and money laundering charges, and announced it expects the legal hammer will soon fall on at least one more former Democratic state lawmaker. The 102-page
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By Colin A. Young STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE BOSTON — Anticipating that the U.S. Supreme Court might rule next year that states can legalize sports wagering, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission on Thursday resolved to prepare research on the topic for lawmakers who may have to decide whether sports betting fits
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Hampshire College, the ultra-progressive institution that has previously made headlines for flying the American flag at half-staff after the election of President Donald Trump, is now on the receiving end of a backlash over its decision to rescind its speaking invitation for Antonia Okafor, a pro-Second Amendment black woman. Meanwhile,
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By Katie Lannan STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE BOSTON — Questions dealing with the minimum wage, sales tax, paid family and medical leave, nurse staffing and a campaign finance commission may be one step closer to coming before voters next year, after their backers submitted signatures to Massachusetts Secretary of State William
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Springfield's Scott Lively, a conservative whose views have made him a target of the Southern Poverty Law Center, ran for Massachusetts governor in 2014 as an Independent. Earlier this month Lively filed documents with Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin's office to challenge Baker as a
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A growing chorus of Democratic members of the United States Senate are now publicly calling on their embattled colleague from Minnesota, former comedian Al Franken, to resign from his post, and according to the Boston Globe, an aide for Massachusetts' Elizabeth Warren says the Cambridge Democrat has called on
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No referendum asking voters to allow the state government to stop paying for abortions will appear on the statewide ballot in 2020, because pro-life advocates didn't gather enough signatures. Supporters of the measure fell more than 7,000 short of the 64,750 they needed, said Thomas Harvey,
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"Country over Party" outgoing U.S. Senator Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) wrote on the $100 check he sent to Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Doug Jones (D-NARAL). Jones, now trailing Roy Moore, the Republican, by a few percentage points, told Chuck Todd on MSNBC in September that he doesn&
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