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Beacon Hill Roll Call, Aug. 21-25
09-01-2023 11:30 AM

By Bob Katzen

THE HOUSE AND SENATE: There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports on the percentage of times local senators voted with their party’s leadership in the 2023 session through Aug. 25. Beacon Hill...


AG Campbell vows engagement in visit to Leyden
08-25-2023 10:54 AM

By DOMENIC POLI

LEYDEN — Following through on a campaign promise to ensure western Massachusetts residents don’t feel left out of the political conversation, the state attorney general swung by the northern Franklin County town of Leyden this week. Andrea Joy...


Trump and 18 allies charged in Georgia election meddling as former president faces 4th criminal case
08-15-2023 5:23 PM

By KATE BRUMBACK and ERIC TUCKER

ATLANTA — Donald Trump and 18 allies were indicted in Georgia on Monday over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, with prosecutors using a statute normally associated with mobsters to accuse the former president, lawyers and...


Education wins in $56B state budget
08-09-2023 5:31 PM

By Sam Drysdale

BOSTON — Described as wins by education advocates across the state, all public school students will have access to free breakfast and lunch, and undocumented immigrants who went to high school in Massachusetts can now qualify for lower in-state...


Beacon Hill Roll Call, July 24-28
08-04-2023 12:38 PM

By Bob Katzen

THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes on roll calls from the week of July 24-28. $375 MILLION FOR ROADS AND BRIDGES (S 2375): House 157-0, Senate 39-0, approved and sent to Gov. Maura Healey...


‘Nobody is above the law’: At city rally backing latest charges, Trump called ‘Jefferson Davis of our time’
08-03-2023 10:49 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — Comparing Donald Trump to Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy, John Bonifaz, a local attorney and activist, condemned Trump at a rally in Northampton on Thursday shortly after the former president was arraigned in...


Solidago Foundation, See Forward Fund name new executive director
07-20-2023 12:03 PM

By MERCY LINGLE

NORTHAMPTON — Though they may be headquartered in small offices under one roof in downtown Northampton, two social justice nonprofits have their eyes focused several thousand miles away in political hot spots like Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina...


Commentary: If there is a Kennedy in your past, you might weigh a Kennedy for president in your future
07-10-2023 11:00 AM

LAURA WASHINGTON

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee. Anxious Democrats are taking note.The longtime environmental lawyer is the son and namesake of Robert F. Kennedy Sr., a former U.S. attorney general who was assassinated...


Healey reflects on Irish roots in Dublin address
06-28-2023 2:51 PM

By AOIFE MOORE

DUBLIN — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday was welcomed as a “hero and a trailblazer” to Ireland, on her first foreign trip in her new role.An emotional Healey addressed the Irish Senate, almost exactly 60 years to the day since President...


At Town Hall, Sen. Warren says democracy is on the line in 2024
06-25-2023 6:53 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HOLYOKE — Speaking to a small crowd of supporters gathered outside amid the humid heat, Sen. Elizabeth Warren lambasted the current U.S. Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade one year ago, saying the court had been taken over by “extremists” who...


McGovern goes after ‘wingnuts’ for impeachment, censure resolutions, calls GOP a ‘joke’
06-23-2023 5:37 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Calling the Republican Party “a joke” and referring to its MAGA faction as “wingnuts,” an exasperated U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern took to the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday night to accuse Speaker Kevin McCarthy of losing control of the...


A unifying voice: Amherst fifth graders testify in unison at state capital hearing in favor of bag ban
06-19-2023 3:52 PM

By SOPHIE HAUCK

BOSTON — What started as a campaign against single-use plastic at Crocker Farm Elementary School became a lesson in political advocacy for fifth graders Nina Hirschberg and Bailey Millay, who testified on Beacon Hill in support of anti-plastic...


A year later, tax relief bills again up for negotiation
06-17-2023 3:48 PM

By Chris Lisinski

BOSTON — The fate of tax relief will now rest with a legislative negotiating committee after the Senate late last week stamped its unanimous approval on a nearly $590 million package. Both branches have voted this session on increasing tax breaks for...


Former Speaker Bartley, architect of landmark special ed law, dies at 88
06-15-2023 12:03 PM

By SAM DORAN

Former House Speaker David Bartley, one of the youngest lawmakers ever to lead the House and a champion of education access, died Tuesday at the age of 88.Nearly half a century passed by since Bartley’s speakership, and he was still remembered this...


Trump indictment: Legal experts weigh historic moment, voters share views
06-13-2023 7:31 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALLand DOMENIC POLI

Donald Trump’s appearance in a federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday marked another monumental occasion in his turbulent political career, an event that drew wide-ranging comments from residents and legal scholars in western Massachusetts.The former...


3 vie for two spots on Belchertown School Committee
05-11-2023 2:57 PM

By Maddie Fabian

BELCHERTOWN — Monday’s town election will feature a contested race for the School Committee, as well as seven other uncontested positions for various boards and committees in town. Voting takes place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the Belchertown High...


Beacon Hill Roll Call, March 6-10
03-17-2023 10:50 AM

By Bob Katzen

THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Beacon Hill Roll Call records local senators’ votes on roll calls from the week of March 6-10. There were no roll calls in the House last week.$368 MILLION SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET (S 23): Senate 40-0, approved a $368 million...


Officials dissect governor’s education budget in hearing at UMass 
03-14-2023 2:17 PM

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — Educational issues pertaining to schools across western Massachusetts, including transportation, rural inequities and a lack of sufficient state aid peppered the discussion of a Joint Ways and Means Committee hearing at the University of...


New agriculture committee puts focus on region
02-27-2023 2:18 PM

By Sydney Ko

Western Massachusetts will have ample representation on a new legislative committee focusing on agriculture.Sens. Ann Gobi, D-Spencer, and Jo Comerford, D-Northampton, were named Senate chair and co-chair of the new Agriculture Committee while Rep....


McGovern: Municipal projects could suffer under debt ceiling 
01-23-2023 5:22 PM

By GREG VINE

Speaking in response to news that U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will need to take “extraordinary measures” to prevent a default on the nation’s debt should lawmakers fail to increase or suspend the federal debt ceiling, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern...

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