The Democratic party’s new chairman, Ken Martin, gave the day-to-day job of running the party to Roger Lau. The longtime political hand has worn many hats for Massachusetts Democrats, including Senator Elizabeth Warren.
As attorney general of Massachusetts, Maura Healey essentially ran point for the commonwealth’s legal opposition to Donald Trump. Now Healey is governor, a very different role than attorney general, and Trump has returned. Her successor in the AG’s office is facing a landscape not unlike the one Healey did—and Attorney General Andrea Campbell has been busy.
Donald Trump has launched a trade war with Canada and Mexico. Elon Musk is doing his best to play aviation gremlin to the federal airship midflight. Both ongoing acts of economic and civic vandalism touch the jurisdiction of the Ways & Means Committee and therefore its ranking member Springfield Congressman Richard Neal.
BOSTON—In her second State of the Commonwealth address, which solemnly nodded at the coming national change, Governor Maura Healey celebrated legislative accomplishments and restated 2025 goals. Among these were her $8 billion transportation plan. It was a laundry list and a pep rally that, as
If 2023 in Springfield was defined by its election, there is ample irony that transitions would define 2024. They just would not be transitions in municipal elective office. The pieces had been moving below deck for some time.
After House Republicans tanked a year-end deal at the orders of Donald Trump and his ostensible boss, Elon Musk, Democrats took the floor to blast GOP subservience. Among those excoriating the other side was Congressman Richard Neal, who emphasized that a bipartisan agreement fell apart because of social media posts.
Elon Musk didn’t like that.
United States Senator Elizabeth Warren achieved what may be the most on-brand milestone of her career in Congress. On Wednesday, Warren formally ascended to her party’s top spot on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Still, the plum post is bittersweet as it
In contrast to Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris’ biggest mistake may have been that she was the candidate of the incumbent party. It is clear a mix of nostalgia, disgruntlement over prices, and religious fervor delivered this result. It is difficult to fathom that Harris could have overcome that.
This blog has existed through five presidential elections. Perhaps they have all felt existential. Certainly, the most recent three presidential cycles have felt that way. That is because one major party’s candidate has been the same for three election in a row. Complete liberation from this déjà vu is not certain, but one step could help break it.
With the 117th Congress and its Democratic House majority expiring in days, the Ways & Means Committee, chaired by Springfield Congressman Richard Neal, voted to release Donald Trump’s tax returns. The move caps a nearly four-year legal battle that began when Neal’s party took control of the House in 2019.