As you may recall, GOP Senate wannabe Gabriel Gomez just released his letter to Governor Patrick in which he sought the interim Senate appointment.  In that letter, he said a bunch of stuff that is not possible to square with what he's … [Read more...]

I don't want to rush to judgment, but someone running in the Republican primary for Senate who, less than a month before announcing that he was officially in the race, wrote to very Democratic Governor Patrick in a somewhat bizarre attempt … [Read more...]

As well she should.  Recently, you may recall, Elizabeth Warren made national headlines by asking bank regulators when the last time they took a lawbreaking bank to trial.  Now she's at it again, this time asking bank regulators how much … [Read more...]

Mike Sullivan, the guy who claims to be proud to be a Republican and who has aggressively staked out much more socially conservative positions than his primary opponents Dan Winslow and Gabriel Gomez, confused just about everybody today. … [Read more...]

GOP Senate candidate Dan Winslow spent some time on Scott Brown's campaign payroll, as you may recall.  And now it appears that some of Brown's penchant for saying silly things in public may have rubbed off.  ThinkProgress caught Winslow in … [Read more...]

There's a real barn-burner of a primary shaping up across the aisle.  If, as appears likely (barring any unexpected challenges) all three Republican candidates have indeed submitted 10,000 valid signatures, there will be a three-way primary … [Read more...]

A fascinating development in the as yet wide-open race for Governor in 2014: state Senator and Cape Air founder Dan Wolf, who has made noises about running for Governor, just sent out a statement that aggressively calls out Treasurer and … [Read more...]

Remember Wrentham?  These days, most people around the state probably associate it with Scott Brown, as in "I'm Scott Brown, I'm from Wrentham, and I drive a truck."  But until the early 1980s, Wrentham - along with eight other towns in … [Read more...]

To judge from the early reports of today's arguments at the Supreme Court - and all the usual caveats apply about being careful about reading too much into what is said at argument - the Court seems prepared to invalidate section 5 of the … [Read more...]