Former Vermont governor and 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean is a scheduled guest at a Boston fundraising reception for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, the Gallows, 1395 Washington St., 5 p.m.
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| Brian Joyce has gone and done it: Angering the Milton board of assessors |
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As if Sen. Brian Joyce doesn’t have enough problems with a fed posse on his trail, the soon-to-be ex-senator is now in potential trouble with the Milton assessor’s office for putting his Milton home up for sale and touting its luxurious amenities that have little resemblance to what’s actually listed in town records, such as 6,444 square feet of space (from the sale brochure) versus 3,854 square feet (town records), 13 rooms versus eight rooms, six bedrooms versus five bedrooms, etc. etc., reports the Globe’s Andrea Estes. “I would be very concerned if any resident did not apply for the proper permits when doing renovations that would have an effect on the value of their property,” said William Bennett, a member of the town’s Board of Assessors. “But it’s even more disheartening if one of our elected officials ignored the town’s laws.”
Sounds like Joyce is now going to need a good real estate attorney, in addition to a good criminal attorney.
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| Boston police resisting reforms on two fronts |
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Digging in Their Heels Alert: The Globe’s Jan Ransom reports that not one rank-and-file police officer in Boston has agreed to participate in a nearly year-old mediation program designed to reduce a backlog of minor grievances against officers. Meanwhile, the Herald’s Dan Atkinson reports the Boston police patrolman’s union is in a tense standoff with Mayor Walsh over the city’s stalled body camera pilot program, prompting Walsh to say officers may be forced to participate in the program if no volunteers step forward. |
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| Healey jumps into the middle of fray for Cape seat |
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Dylan Fernandes, a 26-year-old former digital director in the AG’s office who also worked as a political aide on Maura Healey’s successful 2014 campaign for attorney general, will get a major boost this weekend when Healey appears at two events to formally endorse his candidacy, reports SHNS’s Matt Murphy. Fernandes, who is running for the House seat being vacated this year by Rep. Timothy Madden, is one of five Dem candidates vying for the party’s primary nod.
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| Quincy businessman knows he needs a miracle to beat Lynch |
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Republican William Burke hopes to ride an anti-establishment wave to a “miracle” victory in his bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch in the state’s 8th congressional district, Patrick Ronan of the Patriot Ledger reports. Burke has raised no money and received no endorsements, while Lynch, first elected in 2001, has more than $850,000 in his campaign account. “I’d like to represent the people the way they’re supposed to be represented,” Burke said. “I want to be hired by them, work for them and report to them.”
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| Schilling vs Warren? |
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Speaking of needing miracles, former Red Sox star Curt Schilling is now talking of a possible run against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, as the Herald’s Bob McGovern reports. We’ll believe it when we see it. But if Schilling does run, what do you think the odds would be of him upsetting a liberal incumbent in one of the most liberal states in the union? About as good as him coming out of retirement to win a Cy Young award, getting his job back at ESPN or resurrecting 38 Studios.
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| Housing crisis: Yes, it’s really reached a crisis point |
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Gov. Charlie Baker yesterday was touting new state funding for affordable housing that he hopes will “disrupt the cycle of poverty and homelessness” among the poor, reports Colin Young of State House News Service (pay wall). "We're building more inclusive communities, providing pathways to better economic and social opportunities for working families, individuals and our most vulnerable to reach stability," Baker said yesterday.
But Baker’s announcement came as the Boston City Council is set to meet today on the “chaos and anxiety” caused by the prospect of homeless children getting pushed out of a Brighton motel, possibly next month, just as the school year begins, reports Dan Atkinson of the Herald, which this morning continues with its special-report coverage of families struggling with the current high cost of housing in the city. Boston City Councilor Annissa Essaibi-George plans to hold a City Hall hearing this afternoon on the transition of families from two overflow motel shelters in Brighton. |
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| Falchuk: Galvin’s ‘whoppers’ are ‘totally out of line’ |
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Evan Falchuk is hopping mad at Secretary of State William Galvin for telling “whoppers” to the Boston Globe in a story about how his United Independent Party is struggling to get enough signatures to stay on future election ballots. From Falchuk at CommonWealth magazine: “William Galvin, the secretary of state, has made no secret of his open hostility to the United Independent Party. In a recent interview with the Boston Globe, he made a series of claims about the UIP that are totally out of line and inappropriate for someone in his position as the state’s top elections official.” He then proceeds to address each of Galvin’s complaints about a party that may not be a party much longer. |
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| Beacon Hill Reading List: What are State House leaders reading this summer? |
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State House News Service’s Antonio Caban has sent MASSterList this exclusive and excellent piece about what Beacon Hill leaders are reading this summer, post-session:
Elected leaders turned the page on key policy initiatives earlier this summer and have already started in on new chapters of their own, book chapters that is, thanks to the summer break. In light of President Obama releasing his reading list last week, we asked what our own state leaders were reading for leisure, and here's what we found:
Gov. Charlie Baker is reading "Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win" by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. (Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew Beaton told the News Service he's read the book three times and gave the book to Baker.)
Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito says she's enjoying "Holes" by Louis Sachar. She's reading the book with her daughter, who was assigned it as part of her summer reading assignment for the upcoming school year.
Senate President Stanley Rosenberg is flipping through "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow, the biographical book that inspired the popular broadway musical.
And appropriately titled for summer, House Speaker Robert DeLeo is reading "Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games" by A. Bartlett Giamatti, former commissioner of Major League Baseball.
It's no understatement when we say Treasurer Deborah Goldberg is a big fan of author Daniel Silva. A spokeswoman for Goldberg said the treasurer is reading her way through the Gabriel Allon series, and has finished 14 books thus far. "They're all great," Goldberg told the News Service.
Auditor Suzanne Bump recently tweeted out a list of books she's reading this summer. Her office said she's currently on Daoud Hari's "The Translator: A Memoir "
And Attorney General Maura Healey has delved into "Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic" by Sam Quinones.
A spokesperson for Secretary of State William Galvin declined to comment on what the secretary was reading.
-- Antonio Caban, SHNS
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| Charter cap question divides Democrats |
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The state Democratic committee will meet tonight and could take up an issue that has split the party: Whether to formally oppose the Gov. Baker-backed ballot question to lift the cap on charter schools, Jim O’Sullivan of the Globe reports. One source tells O’Sullivan there is no middle ground among Democrats on the charter school issue, with members of the committee who support teachers unions wanting the party to take a stand against the question but others saying that expanding the public school alternatives is a matter of racial and economic fairness.
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| Despite strong month, Plainridge short of year-one projections |
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Gross gaming revenue at the Plainridge Park slots parlor rose to $13.8 million in July, a 9 percent increase over the month before and one of the strongest months since the state’s first casino opened last year, Gintautus Dumcius of MassLive reports. For its first year of operation, Plainridge paid just over $88 million to the state, short of the $105 million in revenue projected before it opened, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission said.
Meanwhile, would-be casino operators at the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe say they want to formally be party to an ongoing federal lawsuit filed by neighbors seeking to block them from opening the First Light casino in Taunton. George Brennan of the Cape Cod Times reports that the tribe filed a request Monday to be party to likely appeals to be filed by the Department of the Interior after a federal judge ruled that officials erred when allowing the tribe to place the Taunton land into a trust.
| Retailers: Thanks for nothing, lawmakers |
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In a Globe op-ed, Jon Hurst and Harold Tubman bemoan the lack of action taken by lawmakers this past session to help brick-and-mortar retailers amidst increasing competition from online retailers. From blue-law regulations to taxation, traditional retailers operate at a disadvantage compared to online retailers, yet legislators failed to even the playing field during the just-completed session, they say. “Unfortunately, the losers are real local stores, their employees, and their communities,” they write.
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| Weeks later, questions linger about ‘tent city’ move |
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Weeks after a longtime homeless encampment known as Tent City was bulldozed in Brocketon, members of the city council are still asking questions about how the process was handled and why the city spent public funds to clear private land, Benjamin Paulin of the Enterprise reports. Railroad company CSX, which owns the property, has since cleared the land of trees to discourage squatters from returning. The company also says it reimbursed the city for the expenses incurred in moving the encampment, but isn’t saying how much it cost.
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| State says registry branch bids too pricey |
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North Shore residents will have to keep waiting for a chance to wait at a local registry of motor vehicles branch. State officials have rejected the only two proposals received for new branch locations in Peabody and Beverly because they were too expensive, Paul Leighton of the Gloucester Times reports. The registry shuttered its Danvers branch inside the Liberty Tree Mall—where it paid just $40,000 annual in rent after three yeas of free rent—in June after its landlord was unable to fix persistent air conditioner problems. The cheaper of the two proposals for new locations came in at nearly 10 times that amount and the more expensive option could have run the state more than $700,000.
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| SJC issues a status quo ruling that could easily have been the biggest ruling of the year – but wasn’t |
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The state’s Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that drivers do not have the right to a lawyer before taking a Breathalyzer test, a decision that effectively maintains the status quo in the state for DUI cases, MassLive’s Shira Schoenberg reports. But what if the court had ruled the other way, a prospect many thought possible, if only because the case had gotten all the way to the top court in the first place? Berkshire County District Attorney David Capeless previously said a decision could have "a profound effect on pretty much every (drunken driving) arrest." Now it won’t.
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| The State’s Highest Paid Teachers, or A Tale of Two States (take your pick) |
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MetroWest Daily News’ Jim Haddadin took at look at the latest state list of how much teachers are paid in Massachusetts and, lo and behold, the highest paid teachers, by average, are in school districts like Concord-Carlisle (average pay: $100,731), Sherborn ($100,565) and other affluent towns that are at the top of the list. Boston’s average teacher pay is still pretty competitive (at $87,300), but the gap starts to really grow for Fall River, Brockton, Lowell, Worcester and Everett etc. Do you discern a demographic pattern here? Check out Haddadin’s story and accompanying chart.
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