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Spring goes by a different name on Beacon Hill: Budget Season. When most of us are dreaming of daffodils and counting down the days to….

Six weeks into the 193rd legislative session, things are finally starting to move. Or more accurately, things can finally move: the senate….

We did it: we survived another rules season. The House voted on their rules last Wednesday (2/1). In case you didn’t catch it, you can read….

With two days of notice, and 24 hours to read over 200 pages of legislation, the House voted on the rules yesterday afternoon. There’s no….

You might have noticed that there hasn’t been much news coming from Beacon Hill since the new session began earlier this month. (Then again….

Finally, some wintry weather to remind us it is January, after all! Another sure sign it’s January, yesterday was the legislature’s bill….

This week the weather matched the news: mostly dreary and drizzly, with a few peeks of sunshine.  First, the sunshine: bees are going to….

Happy New Year! Oh, I just love that new session smell.  The 193rd Legislative Session began on Wednesday, bringing with it a new class of….

As is tradition on Beacon Hill, lawmakers who won’t be returning for the next session for one reason or another made farewell speeches on….

I’m not going to lie to you: I’m terribly behind on holiday gift shopping this year.  But you know who’s even more behind on delivering….

It was a slow post-Thanksgiving week on Beacon Hill*–*well, about as slow as a week can be with visits from the president and a couple of….

We did it–we made it through another Election day, largely unscathed! And with so much on the line this time around, that’s no small feat.….