It appears that the Massachusetts legislature is poised to make two very sensible reforms: dramatically increase the disclosure requirements for independent expenditures; and raise the direct contribution limits from $500 to $1,000.  Per … [Read more...]

UPDATE: The city of Cambridge is hilariously backtracking on its effort to ban Uber, having apparently not realized that people actually like the service Uber provides, and having created a PR sh!tstorm that it surely did not see coming. … [Read more...]

I've already complained about Senator Ed Markey's breathless emails ominously predicting that an influx of outside money backing Republican Senate candidate Brian Herr (who?) is going to start any minute now.  But the latest, which arrived … [Read more...]

It's all over in Worcester.  Two days of speechifying, delegate wrangling, and rapid-fire tweeting have come to an end, and it's now a slow-motion sprint to the September primary.  Where do things now stand? Winner: the BMG hive mind.  … [Read more...]

Juliette Kayyem's campaign has just emailed the following statement: Today Juliette did what she has done from the beginning of this campaign – she put bold ideas on the table to move Massachusetts forward. While the campaign fell short of … [Read more...]

The Massachusetts Democratic Party's convention is tonight and tomorrow, as you probably know. BMG's Worcester bureau has sprung into action to ensure that you don't miss a thing. At least, a thing that we thought was worth tweeting. … [Read more...]

So says the Herald's Joe Battenfeld, writing about a Suffolk University/Herald poll that was just released, and that shows a startling reversal of public opinion on casino gambling.  Previously, as far as I know, every time the issue has … [Read more...]

Sadly, our fondest dreams have been dashed: we've been deprived of the opportunity to mercilessly mock the Mass. GOP for failing to get their statewide candidates on the ballot. ;) In other words, the Secretary of State has completed its … [Read more...]

The Globe's interesting article on the state lottery, which (as is well known and has been documented before) sometimes (but not always) functions to redistribute money from poorer communities to richer ones, includes a handy-dandy tool … [Read more...]