As if voters didn’t have enough on their plates ahead of next week’s Presidential Election, it’s apparently already time to start thinking about the midterms which will follow. U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, the Bay State’s elder but junior senator, on Sunday announced he will seek a third term in office in 2026, proclaiming that at … Read more
With just weeks to go before the 2024 election and a significant number of ballots already cast, the pair of candidates vying to represent the Bay State in the U.S. senate met for debate, where they wasted no time before laying into one another. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, seeking a third six-year term, joined former … Read more
The candidates vying to represent the Bay State in the U.S. Senate will meet for a pair of debates this week, ahead of an election that polling shows heavily favors the incumbent Democratic senator. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Commonwealth’s senior upper-chamber lawmaker, will meet Republican challenger John Deaton on Tuesday in Boston and on … Read more
Amendment J would protect same-sex marriages in Colorado by repealing the state constitution’s now-defunct definition — which recognizes only unions between a man and a woman. Same-sex marriages were legalized nationwide in 2015 by the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Obergefell v. Hodges case. Colorado was already issuing gay marriage licenses the prior year, … Read more
Dave Williams and other top officials in the Colorado Republican Party are “squatters,” illegitimately occupying the party’s Greenwood Village headquarters after having been booted from their leadership positions over the weekend. So says Eli Bremer, whom the party’s central committee selected to replace Williams as party chair in a vote on Saturday. Eli Bremer in … Read more
Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper will not pursue a third term should he win reelection to the U.S. Senate in 2026, his campaign confirmed Wednesday. Hickenlooper, a Democrat who first won election to the Senate in 2020, first told Punchbowl News about his plans Wednesday and said he would only serve two terms. He told Colorado … Read more
A planned attempt to oust the head of the Colorado Republican Party this weekend was put on hold Friday by a district court judge — but not before calls for Dave Williams’ removal reached new peaks. Williams, whose tenure as the GOP chair has been marked by controversy and months of growing intraparty frustrations, faced … Read more
Using Cape Cod’s nearly nine-decade-old Bourne Bridge as a backdrop, a Republican challenger looking to unseat U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren took a swing at his Democratic rival for not working harder to fix some of the state’s most important aging infrastructure. Former military prosecutor John Deaton, standing alongside state Reps. Steven Xiarhos and Matt Muratore, … Read more
Senate Republicans have blocked a bill offered by their Democratic colleagues aimed at codifying legal protections for contraception access. The bill, the Right to Contraception Act, was put to a vote on Wednesday after languishing in committee for months. Conservative lawmakers called the move a political stunt in anticipation of the 2024 general election. Majority … Read more
BMW and Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) are the latest manufacturers to land in hot water after the U.S. Senate Finance Committee found they both continued using parts made by a Chinese supplier that has been flagged for forced labor. BMW shipped at least 8,000 Minis containing the part after the company was informed about the … Read more
