A three-year-old state-funded website in Massachusetts that provides youth-tailored information on sex and reproductive health has fueled recent outrage among anti-abortion rights groups in the state and nationwide, who claim the site promotes misinformation on abortion.
The site has gone largely unnoticed since its inception, but now — More…
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick will speak at the Colorado Democratic Party’s annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner on March 5. Gov. Patrick — who won re-election last November despite so-so approval ratings and being seen as all but dead after Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s surprise win in January — is More…
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D), who won re-election earlier this month, announced yesterday that he hopes to use his next four years in office to pass a number of immigration reform measures, including driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants and in-state tuition for undocumented students who attended high school More…
In Massachusetts, Cape Wind, a proposed wind energy project off the state’s coast, is becoming an issue in Gov. Deval Patrick’s (D) reelection bid. Wind advocates hope Cape Wind will be the first such project built in the United States, but for many in Massachusetts, the project has long become More…
If Florida Gov. Charlie Crist wants a glimpse into the life of a newly declared Independent candidate, he need look no further than Massachusetts’ Tim Cahill.
Cahill, the sitting Democratic state treasurer, had been eyeing a gubernatorial bid, but Cahill and the Democratic Party had been drifting apart. The party More…
John Weaver and John Yob, two strategists for John McCain’s 2008 bid, are joining up with Democratic consultant Tad Devine to work for Tim Cahill, Massachusetts’ credible independent candidate for governor. Also signing on: Jordan Gehrke, a younger strategist who worked for both McCain and Scott Brown, albeit in More…
Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.) has named Paul Kirk, former Democratic National Committee chairman and aide to Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), to fill Kennedy’s vacant seat until a special election is held in January to fill the seat permanently. The pick comes one day after the Massachusetts legislature changed the law More…
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