state senate

Here's your chance to go drinking with Anthony Galluccio

adamg — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:53:05 -0400

File under Bad Timing? Wicked Local Cambridge reports the Cambridge state senator is hosting a reception on Wednesday: "Complimentary hors' doeuvres, wine, and beer" with a donation of $125 to $500.

The last time Galluccio was in the news.

Galluccio: Yeah, I shouldn't have just taken off like that after the accident

adamg — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:49:12 -0400

Especially given, you know, his driving record and all, and the fact, that, oh, he's a lawyer and stuff. Wicked Local posts state Sen. Anthony Galluccio's apology. We good now?

Cambridge state senator charged with hit and run

adamg — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:07:32 -0400

Channel 7 reports state Sen. Anthony Galluccio is charged with rear ending a car in Cambridge on Sunday and then just driving away. He turned himself into police Monday morning, the station reports.

In 2005, Galluccio was charged with causing a four-car accident in Boston. A clerk magistrate determined that there was insufficient evidence to charge him with drunken driving, even though he acknowledged having some alcohol that night.

Marian Walsh leaving

adamg — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:02:48 -0400

State Sen. Marian Walsh is resigning. More to come, but who'll run for her seat? Tobin? Rush, Consalvo? That guy who boycotted Gary's Liquors?

Wilkerson took a lot more money

adamg — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:42:09 -0500

The Globe gets the exclusive interview; she says she didn't do anything for the $70,000 she got but never reported over the past ten years.

Jay Fitzgerald: Incredible:

... I didn't even know that 'personal fund-raising' had been apparently OK'd by the state's ethics commission. Wilkerson has two commission letters to prove it. ...

And, as Jay notes, this is something Richard Vitale is probably reading up on.

Wait a minute, what happened to Massport?

adamg — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:12:28 -0500

Remember when Massport was going to eat up the turnpike authority and solve all its problems? Now the state Senate is looking at a proposal to create a super-duper Massachusetts Surface Transportation Authority to gobble up the turnpike (which includes the Harbor tunnels), the MBTA, DCR parkways and the Tobin Bridge (now owned by Massport).

State Sen. Steven Baddour explains the proposal on Blue Mass. Group (with more details here), says the thing would be called MassTrans. One interesting idea: turn the current state highway fund into a "Surface Transportation Trust Fund." So those new gas taxes could help subdidize the T?

Baddour says reorganization could save up to $6 billion (over 20 years) in reduced overhead. Cool, no? And we'll just pretend for a second that the state has an outstanding record with creating authorities and commissions that run well and cost effectively (hey, there's always the MWRA).

But what happened to Massport in all this? Perhaps this is all for the good - without the Tobin, that authority can get back to doing what it's supposed to: Running the port of Boston.

Two former Senate leaders die

adamg — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:56:19 -0500

Former Senate President Kevin Harrington died Thursday. Former Senate Majority Leader Walter Boverini died yesterday.

More criminal acts tied to state Senate

adamg — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:50:52 -0500

The Globe reports a Senate page was arrested yesterday on a variety of charges, including armed robbery. The Herald has more details, including a note about how state Sen. Therese Murray could not be reached for comment because she was busy dealing with the resignation of state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson.

Innocent, etc.

Indictment finally does it: Wilkerson resigns

adamg — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:40:30 -0500

The Globe reports.

A Republican wins in Massachusetts

adamg — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:34:43 -0500

Scott Brown keeps his Norfolk, Bristol, Middlesex state senate seat.