Speaker DeLeo and Senate President Murray have decided to nibble around the edges of fixing MA's transportation infrastructure, and to ignore education all together.  Meanwhile, the doors are literally flying open on moving Red Line trains … [Read more...]

The Globe's multi-part Spotlight series on the staggering dysfunction (and worse) within the Boston taxi industry is well worth reading.  According to the Globe's reporting, the system is rife with petty bribes and corruption, and heavily … [Read more...]

Tune your TV to Fox News right now and you can watch our former Senator standing in for Bill O'Reilly.  I'm just sayin'. … [Read more...]

Yes, my Menino post was an April Fools' joke. But this one is not. In a fundraising email, Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez charged that his primary opponents, Mike Sullivan and Dan Winslow, lack courage and … [Read more...]

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who recently announced that he would not run for a sixth term as Mayor, shocked the Massachusetts political world today by announcing that he is jumping into the race for the US Senate seat recently vacated by … [Read more...]

There's a tag-team Senate debate hitting the airwaves tonight: Republicans at 7 pm, followed by Democrats at 7:30.  Should be entertaining.  You can watch on channel 5 (WCVB), listen on WBUR (90.9 FM), or watch a live-stream on a variety of … [Read more...]

As you probably know, the US Supreme Court today heard the first of two days of argument on a number of questions surrounding same-sex marriage.  Today's case was about California's "Proposition 8," which overruled a decision of the … [Read more...]

Here's a remarkable announcement on Twitter from Mass. Republican Party chair Kirsten Hughes: Support the MassGOP tonight at our first fundraiser of the year w @ScottBrownMA, LG Healey and Gov Weld Wow.  So the three big draws for the … [Read more...]

You thought we were just kidding when we named the company that operates Blue Mass Group "BMG Media Empire," right? Well, think again!  We're pleased to announce that BMG co-editor Bob Neer's new book "Napalm: An American Biography" is … [Read more...]

Scott Brown sure did talk a great game about being Mr. Bipartisan, didn't he?  But if you stop to think about it, he was a remarkably ineffective Senator.  His widely-noticed penchant for waiting until the last possible second to make up … [Read more...]