Email (no link): Today, Diane Patrick, the Commonwealth's  First Lady, announced that she will endorse Mike Capuano for U.S. Senate.   Mrs. Patrick will formally endorse Congressman Capuano tomorrow at his 50th "Open Mike" conversation with vot...

BMG has obtained an advance copy of Senate candidate Steve Pagliuca's policy statement on Net Neutrality.  You read it here first! Defending Net Neutrality A Pagliuca for Senate Report Preserving the internet as an open resource for free speech, inno...

According to this piece from yesterday, a "little known" Charlestown attorney says he will challenge Anthony Galluccio in next year's Democratic primary (emphasis mine): Sen. Anthony Galluccio, facing legal trouble from an unexplained car accident, has dr...

The gloves have come off a bit in the Senate race.  Steve Pagliuca held a presser yesterday in which he went after Martha Coakley and Mike Capuano by name over their positions that, on final passage, they would vote "no" on the House's health care bi...

The Globe has some fundraising numbers for the home stretch.  The second column refers to the amount raised over the last 7 weeks, not the total amount raised. Candidate -- $ Raised -- $ on hand Coakley -- $1.9 million -- $1.9 million Capuano -- $1.8...

In response to my inquiries, the Coakley campaign has told BMG that Martha Coakley supports the Senate health care bill and, given the opportunity, would vote for it. Martha supports the Senate bill. She believes it represents great progress toward assuri...

Email: COAKLEY, CAPUANO, KHAZEI AND PAGLIUCA TO PARTICIPATE IN CONSORTIUM DEBATE AT NECN STUDIOS ON WEDNESDAY, DEC 2 BOSTON GLOBE, WBUR, WGBH-TV AND NECN CO-SPONSOR FINAL TELEVISED DEBATE BEFORE SPECIAL SENATE ELECTION PRIMARY NEWTON, MA - The four Democr...

Now is the time to act to fix health care reform. The lobbyists are out in full force to control the agenda, as reported in the New York Times In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists', and to write into law 12 plus years of monopoly pricing (in add...

Sad news today regarding the imminent bankruptcy and anticipated demise of Brigham's as a going concern.  Fortunately, the ice cream is still available (Hood bought the recipes and the brand name, and continues to make a pretty tasty mocha almond), a...

Wow. The Massachusetts unemployment rate fell last month for the first time in more than two years, plunging nearly a half-percentage point as employers trimmed payrolls by just 900 jobs, the state Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development repor...

Should the University of Massachusetts Amherst provide a forum for a "terrorist" to speak? My answer, and the answer of many other faculty, was yes. The talk was scheduled, canceled, and (by my initiative and that of other faculty and graduate students) r...

Senator Reid's office has released its 2,074 page health care bill.  If you're a glutton for punishment, you can read the whole thing here (big PDF). There is an abortion restriction, but early reports indicate that it's not as bad as Stupitts.  ...

So sez DeLeo. His letter to the House membership (and released publicly) is below. The tone is remarkably positive. I'm impressed by both chambers' willingness to take on CORI, which must be a tough (but correct and necessary) vote for a lot of me...

Report from Anti-Violence Project Chair Don Gorton: The Boston Globe estimated that 300 people filled State House hearing room A1 for the 11/17/09 hearing on anti-bullying legislation. That estimate sounds about right: it was standing room only. A large n...

Dear friends, As you may have heard, we just passed CORI reform in the Senate as part of the crime bill, a momentous, innovative step toward a criminal system that works to return productive citizens convicted of a crime to a contributory life. I am proud...

According to one of my favorite internet news sites, TalkingPointsMemo, things are breaking on the Senate side of the healthcare reform process, and we may have our much awaited cloture vote this weekend. Several things seem to be happening: * Harry Reid...

[Crossposted from ONE Massachusetts by Harmony Blakeway]As our community leaders and advocates look through the dramatic cuts being made to all manner of state structures and programs, we thought it would be good to look at one of our many success stories...

Yesterday, Governor Patrick released the New Americans Agenda, a comprehensive list of 131 recommendations to better integrate immigrants into the economic, social and civic fabric of our Commonwealth. The 131 recommendations are broken down into 12 prima...

As promised, here a video excerpt from our interview with Treasurer candidate Steve Grossman.  This was the last question, and ended up being one of the most interesting.  Grossman is very clear that he is willing to use the power of voting the ...

David and I sat down with Steve Grossman for about an hour this afternoon. Grossman, the former DNC chair, 2002 gubernatorial candidate and chairman of Howard Dean's 2004 campaign, has in the meantime returned to the family business in Somerville, whe...