An aide to DiMasi declined comment.The top fund-raiser in the House during 2004 continued to be the man DiMasi replaced, former Speaker Thomas Finneran, D-Boston.Finneran,who accepted a job as president of the Massachusetts … [Read more...]

Happens all the time. Longtime Boston Globe political columnist David Nyhan died this morning after being rushed to the hospital when he collapsed while shoveling snow. He was 64.Horrible. … [Read more...]

Thanks to the Globe's editorial board for pointing out that in Massachusetts, research on embryonic stem cells requires the advance approval of the local district attorney's office.  This is apparently because of a peculiarity in a … [Read more...]

The Globe reports that news of Deval Patrick's interest in running for Governor of Massachusetts has caught the eye of the national Democratic party insider types, including Bill Clinton himself.  This was to be expected, I … [Read more...]

Is the Massachusetts legislature ready to beat swords into ploughshares over gay marriage? As I've said before, this really is a time for the proponents of equal marriage rights to de-escalate, and try to lower the political costs for those … [Read more...]

What's up with this?According to the report, some of the programs hurt by the cuts includemonitoring of water quality, maintenance of nature trails, oversight ofhazardous waste clean-up and access to skating rinks.(Skating rinks count as … [Read more...]

As has been widely reported, the Massachusetts Republican party picked up four possible internet domain names that Attorney General Tom Reilly might have wanted to use for his undeclared campaign for Governor.  But according to today's … [Read more...]

Today's Boston Globe reports that Deval Patrick, former head of civil rights enforcement in the Clinton Justice Department, is considering a run for Governor of Massachusetts.This is very, very good news for lots of reasons.  First, … [Read more...]