Sabutai knows something about the gambling issue, living in Middleborough and all, and so wonders why Deval Patrick won't release that casino study:

... Either something about building a casino is involved with national security, or there's something in those taxpayer-funded studies that Deval doesn't want taxpayers to know. Maybe stuff that would have been useful to know before our town meeting...maybe stuff that makes him look like a twit for being on the sidelines while other people like Tim Cahill stepped up. Maybe there's nothing in there, and Deval is taking tips from Dick Cheney. Maybe it's nothing -- I don't know, but durn it I'd like to find out. ...

Sco calls for release:

... You can hold on to the casino study until you make your final decision, but if you don't release it people are always going to wonder what was so awful in there that the public wasn't allowed to read.

Michael Pahre thinks the Governor is breaking the state open-records law:

... I think the Governor is going to lose this one, but who knows how long it will take for the Supervisor [of public records] to order the records released. ...

Carpundit, no fan of Deval Patrick, won't criticize him for his Cadillac:

... Is it the Boston Herald creating this controversy, or are state Republicans really trying to use this as an issue? Because the former is rational. The latter is just stupid.

Philocrites posts State House photos.

More photos.

Youth Inaugural at the Schubert Theatre.

Blue Mass. Group has the text.

David Kravitz of Blue Mass. Group is co-chair of Deval Patrick's civic-engagagement:

... Our group been asked to consider three general "principles" in going about our task:

Converting the grassroots campaign into a way of governing;

Increasing civic engagement; and

Rebuilding communities throughout the state. ...

The Deval Patrick Transition (hmm, sounds like a 1980s rock group, no?).

Mike Mennonno notes that now that the national press has discovered Our Deval, suddenly his race is mentioned all the time:

... If Deval himself was "blacker," or had run a "blacker" campaign — fear of his "blackness" is what Healey was trying to force into white voters' consciousness with her rape ads--what do you think would have been the outcome? He would likely still have won, but by a slimmer margin. He didn't play into Healey's race-baiting, and that turned out to be the best thing for his campaign. But the undercurrents of racial fear and loathing Healey tried to exploit do deserve real and systematic examination. Just because we voted in a black governor doesn't mean that all the sudden everything's hunky-dory when it comes to race in Massachusetts. ...

Oh, sure, there are those Gloomy Gusses who are barricading their doors against the imminent onslaught of rapists and who fret their taxes will go up so high they won't be able to afford that Porsche they have their eye on. But for most Boston bloggers with an opinion on the elections, it's still party time.

Michael Femia writes that yesterday, he couldn't decide which day was better: Yesterday or Oct. 27, 2004. In either case:

In an exclusive interview, Mihos could only say: Woof!

Transcript of Patrick's victory speech.

Matt: Deval. Thanks for being my new Governor.

Sharon Gartenberg: Deval Patrick's Resounding Victory: A Vote for Community:

Voters in Massachusetts have given our overwhelming support to a governor-elect who stresses sense of community and the need to care about each other's dreams and aspirations as well as our own. It's a message we've clearly been hungering for after the bitter, negative, partisan politics that Karl Rove and the Bush administration have brought to the national arena these past six years. ...

Now the hard work begins, Adam Reilly writes: