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'It's not what everybody wants, but it's the kind of compromise that hopefully people can recognize is forward motion.' - Sen. William Brownsberger

The Massachusetts Senate missed a golden opportunity to bring additional revenue into the Commonwealth while allowing residents the opportunity to do here what they are traveling to other states to do already: sports betting.
The same senators who approved an amendment that would allow your 16-year-o…

Smaller breweries want to be able to change distributors if they feel their product isn't being promoted.

The bill passed 30-7 with opposition from both sides of the aisle.

The state is said to be facing a $6-7 billion revenue loss, and the Senate has shown little appetite for raising taxes during the pandemic.

The consensus is that the coronavirus has had little to no impact on young people and they should be allowed to resume their lives immediately.

It's nice to be a hack. Pays well, too.

When they begin treating the rest of the Commonwealth's citizens as equal partners, then perhaps I'll listen to their calls for new taxes.

Make the state legislature a part-time body with term limits and slash its pay in half.

Why can't lawmakers manage to get stuff done?