Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination. It's got me thinking about about my parents. After my dad came home from the Korea, he and my mother went down to North Carolina so they could go to school. As … [Read more...]
Charlie Baker just appointed an NRA leader to run a state agency
Last year, the Massachusetts NRA accused me of signing on to a "campaign of intimidation, confusion and fear." The pro-gun group was talking about a letter I signed with 18 other mayors in support of Attorney General Maura Healey's work … [Read more...]
#SitWithAndrea to Stop the Dangerous Weymouth Compressor Station
Last week, a woman named Andrea Honore reached out to me on Facebook. She told me she has been trying to meet with Governor Baker for more than two months. For the last 73 days, Andrea has spent part of her lunch break in the the … [Read more...]
To Get to Single Payer Healthcare and Free College, We Need to Reform the Mass. Budget Process
For the second year in a row, Massachusetts is in the middle of a budget crisis and nobody wants to say why. With an unemployment rate below the national average and a state economy that has been in a sustained period of consistent—if … [Read more...]
Breaking the bubble
Sometimes politics can trick us into seeing our neighbors as enemies. While I am prepared to stand up for progressive values and fight against the normalization of hatred in the Trump era, I think we can all do a better job of … [Read more...]