The MassGOP is ripping welfare fraud after investigators uncovered $2.3 million in abuse “in the past quarter alone.” No word if that includes all the EBT dollars spent in Hawaii, as the Herald reported earlier this month. “The Democratic supermajority has repeatedly proven they are incapable of managing taxpayer dollars. When they overspend and mismanage … Read more
The tale of a local option fee on high-dollar property sales is likely far from over as debate over housing policy starts to reach a boiling point on Beacon Hill. Less than two months remain before the Legislature is scheduled to end formal lawmaking for the year, and a multi-billion borrowing bill focused on addressing … Read more
Things have certainly changed for gay Bay State politicians since Barney Frank and Gerry Studds were almost run out of Congress, Barney for his sordid affair with a rent boy named Hot Bottom, and Studds for plying a teenaged male Congressional page with vodka and then sodomizing him. Now Julian Cyr is the flamboyantly gay … Read more
Pols & Politics, the Herald’s weekly political notebook, is back with regular insight from the reporters covering power players in the State House, City Hall, and our Congressional delegation. A failed deal on immigration reform that lost steam in the U.S. Senate earlier this month was still fresh on Beacon Hill’s mind this week — … Read more
