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MTA Endorses Juan Jaramillo in Race to Succeed DeLeo

February 18, 2021 By jconway 3 Comments

After consulting with representatives of the RTA and WTA on their Candidate Endorsement Committee, the MTA has announced it is supporting Juan Jaramillo for the special primary to replace retiring State Rep and former Speaker Robert … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: 19th Suffolk, deleo, Juan Jaramillo, ma-house, state-rep

I’m Running to Flip First Barnstable Blue

March 13, 2018 By Steven Leibowitz 4 Comments

While a lot of the political world rotates around what happens in Boston, here on Cape Cod, we are looking to make some significant changes and holds on our State House delegation. Our first term state senator, Julian Cyr, has a tough … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: 1st Barnstable, ma-house, Steven Leibowitz

House may vote on CORI, Education in January

November 18, 2009 By Charley on the MTA Leave a Comment

Last evening, the Senate passed an amended version of the Education Reform Act. This legislation was the product of many hours of labor on the part of Chairwoman Walz and the Joint Committee on Education. I cannot express enough my deep … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cori, deleo, education, house, ma-house

Sciortino reports disappearance of signature papers

May 22, 2008 By Charley on the MTA 33 Comments

Well, the rumor mill had a little something to it: There has been a signature problem: Medford - Rep. Carl Sciortino, D-Medford, announced today that he has filed suit in Suffolk County Superior Court seeking ballot access … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: ma-house, massachusetts, sciortino

Threats in the House; DeLeo on record wanting Speakership

May 4, 2008 By Charley on the MTA 24 Comments

Matt Viser picks up on the story Casey alluded to yesterday (hooray for the two-paper town!), about Rep. Jennifer Callahan being threatened by an unnamed supporter of Bob DeLeo's now-public candidacy for Speaker. It must have been … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: callahan, deleo, dimasi, ma-house, speaker

Leadership roller-derby in the House

May 3, 2008 By Charley on the MTA 31 Comments

Well, this certainly does not sound pretty. Sal DiMasi's had a tough couple of months. It's definitely been a bad week, with stories coming out of unseemly (if not outright illegal) lobbying, and killing legislation in order to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: deleo, dimasi, house, legislature, ma-house, massachusetts, petrolati, rogers

A UMass student in the House?

May 1, 2008 By davemb 4 Comments

The Daily Collegian, UMass Amherst's student-run paper, reports that UMass senior political science major Matt Giancola will enter the Democratic primary for the 4th Middlesex state rep seat now held by Rep. Stephen LeDuc.  "The 4th … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 4th-middlesex-house, democratic-primary, ma-house, matt-giancola

Lori wins! (8th Essex)

February 5, 2008 By Charley on the MTA 11 Comments

Just called Ryan, who was her campaign manager field director -- he tells me that enviro-blogger and CPA Lori Ehrlich took the Dem nomination in the 8th Essex House race, with 84% of Marblehead, 3 of 6 precincts in Swampscott, and both … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 8th-essex, lori-ehrlich, ma-house, massachusetts

Gloribell Mota shows us around Eastie

September 7, 2007 By Charley on the MTA 3 Comments

Mota is extremely well-spoken; she has a richness of experience in the neighborhood; and evinces compassion on behalf of her neighbors. And walking around the neighborhood with her, one gets the strong impression that she knows everybody … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 1st-suffolk, east-boston, ma-house, massachusetts, mota

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BenDowningMABen Downing@BenDowningMA·
7 Mar

Our leaders didn’t prepare us for the virus, or a shock like it, and that left all of us, but particularly the most vulnerable, exposed. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/03/06/nation/mass-surpasses-16000-deaths-due-covid-19/ #mapoli

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6 Mar

It’s telling that the last two Democratic Presidents began their presidencies with a “Recovery Act” and a “Rescue Plan” because their inheritances were so catastrophic.

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7 Mar

Beautiful urban visions from @berkie1 !

Sure would help to have a robust, thriving public transit system to enable this.

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Streets that put people first, not cars - The Boston Globe https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2021/03/superblocks/ via @BostonGlobe

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DrEricDingEric Feigl-Ding@DrEricDing·
7 Mar

Let this sink in— 5,700,000 children will be lifted out of poverty soon by President Biden’s #COVID19 relief aid passed by Congress.

Zero Republicans (House/Senate) voted for it.

Only way we passed it that Democrats won 2 senate seats for a 50-50 tie & VP Harris made it 51-50. https://twitter.com/chrislu44/status/1366524803742597120

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This deserves a lot more attention

New analysis: 13.1 million fewer Americans would be in poverty after the passage of Biden's economic relief bill

Significantly, the child poverty rate would be cut in half. That's 5.7 million fewer kids in poverty https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/news-internal/2021/presidential-policy/biden-economic-relief-proposal-poverty-impact?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210228&instance_id=27598&nl=the-morning®i_id=103545475&segment_id=52539&te=1&user_id=cd59d05eab07f3403b8db65ae0fa15b3

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jonfavsJon Favreau@jonfavs·
6 Mar

“..it could become one of the most effective laws to fight poverty in a generation. Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy estimates that the plan would reduce the poverty rate by more than a quarter for adults and cut the child poverty rate in half.”

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