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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has announced that National Grid will pursue a long term deal with Cape Wind to purchase power from its proposed 130 turbine wind farm.
Gov. Deval Patrick is rolling out a new $150 million loan fund designed to help create more affordable housing units in Massachusetts.
Homeowners tired of paying high electricity bills can now turn the tables by selling excess electricity back to power companies at more lucrative rates.
Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a new law penalizes utility companies that fail to provide safe and reliable service to customers after major storms.
A solar panel company is moving some jobs overseas after receiving $58 million in state aid and being touted by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick as a symbol of the state's economic future.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has a new transportation team that looks a lot like his old one, prompting criticism from one prominent legislator and the head of a government watchdog group.
Gov. Deval Patrick said he plans to close Massachusetts' $600 million budget gap with a blend of cuts in state services and programs and up to 2,000 job cuts but none of the local aid and few of the school funding reductions many cities and towns warned would decimate local education and public safety.
Gov. Deval Patrick said Wednesday that the federal stimulus program has created or saved more than 23,000 jobs in Massachusetts since February.
Massachusetts will consider a fund to provide capital to small- and medium-sized businesses, Gov. Deval Patrick announced Tuesday as he closed a one-day summit with government and business leaders.
President Barack Obama is scheduled to give a speech on clean energy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while in town for a fundraiser for Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.
A Massachusetts judge on Friday rejected a Republican request to delay the swearing in of Edward Kennedy's temporary replacement in the Senate.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Wednesday he has instructed state employees to stop doing business with Hyatt hotels until it rehires 100 housekeepers it fired last month.
If Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick wants the power to quickly name a temporary replacement for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, it's going to be up to him to do it.
Candidates in the special election to fill the seat left vacant by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's death are scrambling to collect the cash, signatures and backing needed to mount a winning campaign in less than four months.
Massachusetts could have a new U.S. senator by the end of the week.
The governor should be allowed to name an interim replacement to the late Edward Kennedy's vacant Senate seat because it would help ensure health care overhaul legislation gets passed, Democrats told a packed Statehouse public hearing Wednesday.
The race for the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death last week of Edward Kennedy got off to a cautious start Tuesday, despite a tight five-month election schedule that leaves little time for campaigning. By the end of the day just one major candidate — state Attorney General Martha Coakley — opted to take out nomination papers. A campaign aide declined to comment.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick says "one of the commonwealth's brightest lights" has been extinguished with the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
For the first time in nearly half a century, Massachusetts voters will be handed ballots for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Edward Kennedy without his name on them.
New York Gov. David Paterson says his comments last week suggesting some of his critics were motivated by racial bias have been misunderstood.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's new puppy nipped a woman on the hand and she later went to a hospital for evaluation.
A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is supporting a new state transit authority ban on cell phones for bus and trolley drivers by calling on another state agency to do the same.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's mother-in-law has died on his 25th wedding anniversary.
Gov. Deval Patrick is heading West next week to encourage the technology industry to expand here and to ask companies with offices in Massachusetts to maintain the 10,000 to 15,000 jobs already in the state.
Barack Obama's Leading Indicator by Jules Crittenden Deval Patrick's fizzle bodes ill for the White House Or as the Boston Herald, the scrappy conservative tabloid put it, "Maybe We Can't."
State of 'emergency'? We're living in itHere's how it's supposed to work. If the Legislature wants a bill to become law immediately, they have to attach what's called an "emergency preamble." It takes a two-thirds vote to pass such a preamble. Otherwise, the bill becomes law in 90 days.
Gov. Patrick says state will boycott Hyatt if it doesn't rehire workers - Daily Business Update - The Boston GlobeGovernor Deval Patrick plans to direct state employees to boycott the Hyatt while conducting state business unless the hotel company rehires the housekeepers it fired without warning after tricking them into training outsourced replacements.
Panel to weigh Kennedy request for interim senatorGovernor Deval Patrickday to press for a change to state law to allow him to appoint an interim replacement for Senator Edward M. Kennedy as he announced that a special election for the seat will be held on Jan. 19, 2010
Mass. Treasurer Rips Mandated Health Insurance. by Frank Ahrens. July 29, 2009; 4:45 PM ET In 2006, the state of Massachusetts required every single one of its residents to get health insurance, and every single one of its businesses to provide it. Otherwise, residents and employers would be fined.
Alexander's Essay: Bad Boys, Bad Boys, Watcha Gonna Do...? by Mark Alexander. 27 July 2009When Barack Hussein Obama interrupted a recent live media propaganda confab on his administration's most critical national initiative (socializing health care) in order to accuse a local police officer of "acting stupidly," he got more than my attention; he earned my disrespect - …
Fox News goes 10 for 10!Congratulations to everyone on the Fox News team. Obviously, it takes a total team effort to be the Leader on cable news. The best way Americans can honor the men and women serving overseas is to be informed about the issues confronting our country.
Lobbyists Lobby MA State Govt Against Provision That Would Ban MA State Govt From Hiring Lobbyists To Lobby the MA State Govt (Seriously)Governor Deval Patrick is taking aim at a time-worn Beacon Hill practice that, on the surface, seems paradoxical: state government hiring expensive lobbyists to influence state government.
Richard Evans: Question 2 landslide opens drug policy debateDon't look now, but the resounding two-to-one victory of Question 2, the marijuana decriminalization initiative, may well turn out to be a blessing to Gov. Deval Patrick and the legislature as they face the current fiscal reckoning.
Cross Country - WSJ.comA listing of the sins of Deval Patick, the 'post-partisan' MA Governor who ran on the same type of platform as the Obama Campaign.
Patrick rules out serving in Obama cabinetGov. Deval Patrick said Monday he does not plan to leave the Massachusetts governorship to take a job in Barack Obama's cabinet if his friend wins the White House.
Bob Cesca: The Wolfson Plagiarism Attack Is Ridiculous Obama closely echoed a passage from a speech that Deval Patrick, now the Massachusetts governor, used at a campaign rally when he was running for that office in 2006.
It's a tale of (at least) three states, each boldly putting forward their gambit for a share of gaming tax revenues.
Obama, Jackson have different approaches on race issue - The Boston GlobeObama's focus is on reconciliation, between all opposing groups not only black/white. Jesse Jackson's focus is on the division and on confrontation, and Al Sharpton's is on hyping confrontation to its highest degree.
Deval's naivete endangers us all - BostonHerald.comIn his 9/11 commemoration speech, Patrick observed that while the attack on the World Trade Center was "mean and nasty," (that's telling 'em, Deval!) the real tragedy of six years ago was the "failure of human understanding."
9/11 was a "failure of human understanding," says Mass. governorExcerpt: "Here's Mitt's successor, Deval Patrick, transparently ducking the hard lessons of 9/11 by generalizing the attacks to a point of such pure, "tolerant" abstraction as to make what he says both totally indisputable and totally meaningless. Quote:
Advocates push Patrick to accept federal abstinence-only moneyBackers of abstinence-only education launched a campaign Wednesday urging Gov. Deval Patrick to accept a $700,000 federal grant to keep the program alive in Massachusetts.
After the Trailblazers'They represent a 'sea change' in black politics: leaders who appeal to all races by stressing consensus over conflict.' Piece on the great new generation of African American politicians like Cory Booker.
Marriage ban seen as 'political circus'Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick warned that the state will be crippled by a "political circus" if a same-sex marriage ban gets on the state ballot.
Gov denies job offers for gay-wed switchMassachusetts Governor Deval Patrick denied he has offered jobs to anti-gay-marriage lawmakers in exchange for their votes against a proposed ban on same-sex marriage.
Massachusetts may extend gay marriage rightsThree of Massachusetts' top political leaders said they support repealing a 1913 law that was first used to ban interracial marriages by out-of-state couples and later by then-Governor Mitt Romney to ban marriages of out-of-state same-sex couples.
26 gay marriages set to be recordedMassachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has ordered the Department of Public Health to record the marriages of 26 out-of-state gay couples.
A G.O.P. Breed Loses Its Place in New England - New York TimesThe midterm elections represented a marked step in the decline of the "Yankee Republican," socially tolerant, fiscally responsible GOP politicians in the mold of Warren Rudman or William Cohen.
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