We all know Massachusetts is not perfect, and our political process at times leaves much to be desired. But I’ve long been proud of my roots here, in one of our most liberal states and a place that has been in forefront of many important … [Read more...]

[UPDATE: The post has been modified to reflect the discussion in the comments, which seems to establish Brown registered his pre-existing PAC with NH officials rather than forming a wholly new entity.] First you list the house in … [Read more...]

Since we are covering this kind of topic these days, I thought it relevant that Boston voters are getting calls that, as the Globe puts it, are "floating negative messages against state Representative Martin J. Walsh." The calls are from … [Read more...]

And schools the Tea Party extremists in the process. This is from a week ago, but I've not seen this one posted yet. Stuff like this is WHY Massachusetts Democrats are so eager to be associated with this woman. Full transcript … [Read more...]

For the past several weeks, I (and many others) have been helping out the Raise Up Massachusetts campaign, a broad coalition of groups working to place two initiative questions on the November 2014 state ballot. The first would raise … [Read more...]

About two months ago we discussed the coming opening for state Senate President. David S. Bernstein now posts, at Boston Magazine, that Sen. Stan Rosenberg (D-Amherst) is the current favorite to succeed Therese Murray. Rosenberg, it … [Read more...]

With the special Senate election behind us it's a good time to recap. I'm not getting into messaging or strategy here: this is a pure numbers post: where people turned out and where they didn't. This builds on Brent's post, and one of the … [Read more...]

The Herald's front cover this morning says Ed Markey's sitting pretty in a new poll. I didn't buy the rag, but I did flip through to the story. UMass Lowell has a new poll out, commissioned by the Herald, showing Markey up 56-36 among … [Read more...]

Just stumbled upon this at Daily Kos. State Senator Karen Spilka, who's in the race to succeed Ed Markey in Congress should he win next Tuesday, has introduced legislation to protect citizens' data: Long before Massachusetts was a … [Read more...]

Over the past few days, EB3 has complained several times that there has not been enough discussion of the NSA's scandalous grab, in the name of counterterrorism, of details about every single phone call made or received by a Verizon … [Read more...]