Governor Maura Healey is weighing in on Hampden County’s competitive primaries, siding with incumbents in both cases. Senator Adam Gomez, who faces Springfield City Councilor Malo Brown in next Tuesday’s Democratic primary, released a statement from Healey and Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll Thursday afternoon.
In the final week of the Democratic primary for the Hampden Senate district, the race is moving onto the airwaves. Springfield City Councilor Malo Brown has purchased airtime on the Springfield-Holyoke media market’s broadcast networks. Senator Adam Gomez is not far behind.
CHICAGO—Delegates to the Democratic National Convention from Massachusetts came to a much different convention than the one they had signed up for. With caucuses and Democratic State Committee (DSC) votes long before Biden’s debate, essentially everybody representing the commonwealth had signed up with the president for nomination.
From the moment the contest began the subtext of the Hampden Senate District’s Democratic primary would be who could represent it best. Therefore, it was probably fate that the battle between Senator Adam Gomez and Springfield City Councilor Malo Brown would take a nasty turn. That happened mid-August.
BOSTON—On June 18, Massachusetts Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro grabbed headlines with a call to put the Cannabis Control Commission into receivership. The legislature did not advance Shapiro’s proposal, but his office had another significant impact earlier in the year.
Hispanic Latino Leaders Now Independent Expenditure Political Action Committee (HLLN) is no more. The first SuperPAC to seriously intervene in Springfield elections dissolved as part of a disposition agreement with state campaign finance regulators.
Generally, when the United States Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) comes up in Springfield, it is about the Community Development Block Grant program. At worst, it is usually middling news, such as a lower Congressional appropriation. On July 25, however, HUD came knocking