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Baker Top Spender
Baker Top Spender
Baker Top Spender
Statewide candidates raised and spent about $33 million during last year's elections, a jump of about 9 percent from the 2010 campaign for governor. A new review by the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance found candidates for governor in 2014 reported raising and spending a total of about $20 million...
A-G Investigates
A-G Investigates
A-G Investigates
The Massachusetts attorney general's office is investigating Santander bank's auto lending business over concerns that the company may be engaged in the type of predatory practices that, on a larger scale, led to the mortgage and financial crises...
Coakley Wins Settlement
Coakley Wins Settlement
Coakley Wins Settlement
A for-profit school will pay students $3.75 million to resolve allegations of misrepresenting job placement numbers and using deceptive enrollment tactics under a settlement with Attorney General Martha Coakley. The money will be used to pay down student federal loans and private loans for about 600 students who attended medical programs at Salter College's West Boylston campus and the Salter Scho
Baker Takes More Measured Tone
Baker Takes More Measured Tone
Baker Takes More Measured Tone
During his campaign for governor, Charlie Baker repeatedly criticized Martha Coakley for defending the state against a lawsuit brought by a New York children's rights group, saying she should have settled the suit instead. Asked this week if he would try to negotiate the case when he becomes governor in January, Baker adopted a more measured tone...
State House Meetings
State House Meetings
State House Meetings
UPUDATE:  Republican Gov.-elect Charlie Baker and Democratic legislative leaders are promising to work together to address the state's most pressing issues despite their political differences. Following private meetings at the Statehouse on Monday morning, legislative leaders praised the governor-elect as ready to hit the ground running on fiscal and other issues...
Transition Begins
Transition Begins
Transition Begins
Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick and the man who will succeed him, Republican Charlie Baker, have met for first time since Baker's narrow election victory over Martha Coakley. The two huddled privately for about 45 minutes in Patrick's office on Wednesday to discuss the transition of power on Beacon Hill...
Coakley Conceeds
Coakley Conceeds
Coakley Conceeds
Republican Gov.-elect Charlie Baker says he's ready to roll up his sleeves and get to work after defeating Democrat Martha Coakley in one of the closest gubernatorial elections in recent state history. Baker told reporters on Wednesday that a ``seamless'' transition of power was the first order of business...
Coakley Concedes
Coakley Concedes
Coakley Concedes
Democrat Martha Coakley has called Republican Charlie Baker to concede the Massachusetts governor's race. Coakley's campaign sent a statement Wednesday saying she had called Baker at 8:15 a.m. to congratulate him on his victory. Coakley says she will address her supporters at her Somerville campaign headquarters at 11 a...

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