Matt Stout
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‘It’s a significant risk.’ Weeks into term, Diana DiZoglio’s move to audit Legislature marks a political gambit.
“This is exactly one of the reasons why she wanted to run," said Doug Rubin, who advised state Auditor Diana DiZoglio during her campaign. "For her, this is very personal." → Read More
State auditor says she’s launching review of ‘closed-door’ Massachusetts Legislature, the first in a century
It's the third high-profile audit Diana DiZoglio has announced recently. → Read More
Six years after pay raise law, many top Mass. officials rank as highest paid in the country
If not for some Massachusetts officials forgoing raises in past years, the pay of all six of the statewide constitutional officers would rank number one among their elected counterparts nationwide, according to a Globe analysis. → Read More
Another state lawmaker is joining powerful MassBio trade group
State Representative Edward Coppinger, who was first elected to the House in 2010, will start on March 1 at MassBio in the newly created position of head of government affairs. → Read More
The Mass. GOP may have $600K in debts, misreported hundreds of thousands in spending, memo says
Amy Carnevale, who was elected last month to replace Jim Lyons as the Massachusetts GOP's chair, described a party that had fallen in fiscal disarray under her predecessor, telling Republican State Committee members in a letter that officials are trying “get our financial house in order.” → Read More
One month into office, Andrea Campbell wants to tackle abortion, gun violence, and corruption as AG
In her first sit-down interview with the Globe as attorney general, Campbell said she is making government accountability, reproductive rights, and economic justice core priorities for the office. → Read More
Healey faces a ‘critical’ choice in naming next State Police leader: to look inside, or out
Filling the superintendent position is an early test not only of Healey but also of a two-year-old law that allows the governor to pull the department’s next leader from beyond its ranks. → Read More
Gus Bickford to step down as state Democratic Party chair
Bickford, who has led the party since 2016, announced his decision to step down at a State Committee meeting Saturday, and will remain chairman until its next meeting on April 24. → Read More
They once passed on hefty pay raises. Two years later, Galvin and Goldberg quietly took them
In addition to taking a two-year-old pay hike, state Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg also recently accepted a 20 percent pay raise her office determined she and other constitutional officers were due this year. Combined, her pay jumped by $49,200. → Read More
Senate poised to pass measure eliminating Senate president’s term limits, Democrats say
The Senate meets Thursday to vote on its rules package, to which lawmakers are expected to attach the term-limit amendment. → Read More
Healey takes more than $2.9 million to fund inaugural party, the most ever by a governor
The numbers top former governor Charlie Baker’s 2015 bash as the most lucrative inaugural fundraising effort, when the Republican reported raking in $2.4 million in contributions. → Read More
Mass. Republican Party elects new leader, rejecting chairman Jim Lyons’s bid for third term
The Republican State Committee voted 37-34 to make Amy Carnevale its new chair, turning to a longtime state committee member and Trump supporter from Marblehead who has worked in the White House and on Capitol Hill. → Read More
Panel recommends Mass. House declare Democrat the winner in race decided by a single vote
The special legislative committee's report, filed on Tuesday, could clear the way for Kristin Kassner to officially fill the Second Essex seat, roughly four weeks after the majority of House members took their oath of office. → Read More
Troubled Massachusetts GOP to hold election for chair, with party’s future on the line
Contending with internal chaos, legal and financial challenges, and dwindling political influence, the Republican State Committee is set to convene in Marlborough on Tuesday to decide on its leadership. → Read More
New tax on high incomes could generate at least $1.4 billion next year, state officials project
Narrowly passed by voters on the November ballot, the measure increases the state’s 5 percent income tax rate to 9 percent on annual income exceeding $1 million. → Read More
Baker tapped nearly 170 for state boards and panels during his final weeks in office
The slew of 11th-hour appointees Charlie Baker made include his former chief of staff, a high-ranking Republican Party official, and two former GOP state representatives whose terms were ending. → Read More
Beacon Hill has a new ‘Big Three.’ How they work together can make or break the State House.
The three Democrats — Governor Maura Healey, Senate President Karen Spilka, and House Speaker Ronald Mariano — are launching a new era of Beacon Hill’s Big Three with distinct agendas, styles, and personalities. → Read More
Mass. House declares Democrat winner in 7-vote race; a second contest remains under review
Margaret Scarsdale is scheduled to be sworn in Wednesday, exactly two weeks after nearly every representative-elect had taken the oath of office. → Read More
Charlie Baker made nearly 2,200 public appearances as governor. See where he went and how often.
The Republican left office after more than 2,900 days as governor and nearly 2,200 public appearances that took him around the East Coast, and — in rare cases — beyond, according to a Globe analysis of eight years of his public schedules. → Read More
In first acts as governor, Healey signs order creating climate chief, reappoints Baker’s public safety secretary
Healey's executive action makes official a campaign promise to create the first-of-its-kind position within her inner circle in a bid to create a “whole-of-government response” to climate change in Massachusetts. → Read More