As reported by National Journal, Scott Brown's campaign team is now figuring he will need to win 430,000 more votes in 2012 than he won in 2010 in order to hold onto his Senate seat. Yikes -- where to find them? If his Boston College … [Read more...]

Up for a hearing today, House 1744, An Act Protecting Children and Parents. Sponsored by new GOP Representative Marc Lombardo, the bill would abolish the state's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, whose mission is to create … [Read more...]

A post from a couple days ago included some discussion as to who deserved more credit for getting the Consumer Protection Bureau included in last year’s Financial Reform Act:  Elizabeth Warren, whose idea it was, or Scott Brown, who … [Read more...]

  Mitt Romney has a new favorite word. No, it’s not “corporation.” It’s “wheelhouse.” The baseball term describing the arc of a hitter’s most powerful swing. Here’s Mitt in Berlin, New Hampshire on Tuesday: And right now the … [Read more...]

In an op-ed in today's Boston Globe, Senator Brown shares with us his recollection of how, a decade ago, Massachusetts pulled itself out of recession using only spending cuts and bipartisanship. In 2001 to ’02, the bursting of the … [Read more...]

As reported in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Senator Brown couldn’t get away fast enough from voters who turned out in Amherst yesterday to ask him about his positions on federal budget issues. Among those voters was Peter Ramos, a … [Read more...]

Wherein our hero will surely reveal why he filibustered his own jobs bill, among other mysteries. (Notice he's not giving us the time of day, so to speak, in the information below.  The intrepid among us will have to camp out to await … [Read more...]

A day after voting for the debt ceiling bill because it “significantly cuts spending,” Senator Brown is reminding state residents affected by the June tornado to be sure not to miss the August 15 deadline for the federal money that’s … [Read more...]

To the 20,000 people who are soon going to lose their unemployment benefits, Governor Patrick is offering his sympathy, telling reporters that these families deserve a soft landing and that his administration will do everything it can to … [Read more...]

The 2010 Census, which came out in March, has decreed that Massachusetts will lose one of its ten Congressional seats. So the State Legislature is busy drawing up a new state map that will shrink the number of Congressional districts by … [Read more...]