08/25/2017 08:02 AM EDT
By Rebecca Morin (rmorin@politico.com; @RebeccaMorin_) and Charlie Mahtesian (cmahtesian@politico.com; @PoliticoCharlie)
TGIF, MASSACHUSETTS. Mostly cloudy with a high of 73 today.
I'm Rebecca Morin and I'm filling in along with Charlie Mahtesian this week while Lauren is on vacation in Minnesota. This is our last day, but Lauren will be back Sept. 5.
WARREN'S NEXT TOWN HALL: Sen. Elizabeth Warren is heading to Rep. Niki Tsongas' district on Friday for a town hall in Concord, her 13th town hall of the year.
The 3rd District isn't exactly Warren Country: The senator lost the district narrowly in 2012, Gov. Charlie Baker carried it in 2014 and so did Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez in 2013.
It's home to a rare open-seat congressional race in 2018, now that Tsongas has announced she will not seek reelection.
Tsongas and Warren are allies: Tsongas was the first major political player to endorse Warren in her initial Senate campaign. After the congresswoman announced her retirement, Warren warmly referred to her as "a mentor and a friend."
The senator may yet have a role to play in shaping the field and the outcome of the race to succeed Tsongas since she will also be on the ballot next year.
While the Democratic field in the 3rd District remains unsettled at the moment, it got a little smaller Thursday as state Sen. Jamie Eldridge announced he would not run for the open seat. The Lowell Sun's Chris Lisinski has more on Eldridge's decision.
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TODAY - Gov. Charlie Baker will join Boston Mayor Martin Walsh to announce a program being launched by the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts in partnership with Google, Bank of America, and Arthur F. Blanchard Trust/BNY Mellon - Sen. Elizabeth Warren will hold a town hall in Concord - Sen. Edward Markey will hold a press conference in Boston on North Korea.
ON THE STUMP
- "A second Cape Cod attorney enters GOP race for AG," by Matt Murphy, State House News Service: "The race to challenge Attorney General Maura Healey next fall is on now that a second Republican attorney, this one also from Cape Cod, has launched his campaign for the statewide office. Dan Shores, a Cape Cod resident and Boston patent law attorney, said in an interview that after several months of considering his options and evaluating Healey's record as attorney general he decided to run for the seat to "restore integrity" and end what he considers the politicization of the office."
- "Massie: Transit is key to improving Western Massachusetts as part of statewide rail plan," by Shira Schoenberg, Masslive.com: "The best way to improve the economy in Western Massachusetts is to better connect the eastern and western parts of the state, said Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bob Massie. 'As someone goes back and forth on the Mass Pike, it's amazing a two-lane highway is the main method of transportation across an entity that in many other parts of the world would be a country,' Massie said during an interview in his Somerville office."
"Fitchburg councilor Michael Kushmerek to run for state Senate seat being vacated by Jen Flanagan," by Steven H. Foskett Jr.: "Michael Kushmerek, president of the Fitchburg City Council, announced Thursday he will run for state Senate for the Worcester and Middlesex District. Mr. Kushmerek's announcement came a day after state Sen. Jennifer Flanagan said she will resigning from her seat in the Legislature to serve on the new Cannabis Control Commission."
THE LOCAL ANGLE
- "Felix G. Arroyo fired as city's health services chief," by Meghan E. Irons, Boston Globe: "Felix G. Arroyo, the city's embattled health services chief, was fired from his Cabinet post Thursday, ending a nearly four-week city inquiry into allegations that he sexually harassed a woman he had been supervising. 'Felix Arroyo has been terminated from the City of Boston after a comprehensive internal investigation,' said Laura Oggeri, the city's communications chief. 'The city will immediately begin to search for candidates to fill the chief of health and human services position and we hope to announce an appointment soon.'"
- "Boston teachers land raises in new two-year deal," by Kathleen McKiernan, Boston Herald: "The city has reached a tentative two-year contract deal with the Boston Teachers Union that gives teachers a raise, parental leave and adds more nurses and support to special education classes, officials announced today. The agreement includes wage increases of 2 percent for last year and 3 percent this year for teachers and paraprofessionals. The Boston School Committee is expected to vote on the contract at its Sept. 13 meeting."
- "Capuano, Malia Stand with MBTA Mechanics to Stop 'Privatization Scheme,'" by David Ertischek, Jamaica Plain News: "During a Wednesday rally in Jamaica Plain, politicians, MBTA mechanics and union supporters came together to chide for-profit companies that were allegedly snuck into MBTA garages "under the cloak of night" to check out properties they wish to control and replace union employees."
- "A run-in with an MBTA vehicle creates a big hassle," by Sean P. Murphy, Boston Globe: "Denise Roney has gone without a car since June 9, when, she says, an MBTA supervisor in a T-owned SUV tried to make a left turn against traffic and plowed into her car. The crash instantly ruined Roney's day. What Roney didn't realize is that this minor accident would practically ruin her whole summer as well. She has spent months trying to get the T to pay for repairs."
- "Lawyer for the Kennedys says he thinks charges will be dismissed,' by John R. Ellement, Boston Globe: "Matthew Maxwell Kennedy and his daughter, Caroline, will not get special treatment as the disturbing the peace charges filed against them by Barnstable police move through the court system, Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe said Thursday. His office will be prosecuting the 52-year-old Kennedy and his 22-year-old daughter in Barnstable District Court, where they each face a criminal charge of disturbing the peace and a citation for violating Barnstable's noise ordinance."
- "Powerball winner plans to 'hide in bed' after claiming record payout," by Colin A. Young, State House News Service: "Less than 24 hours after stopping into the Pride Station & Store in Chicopee to buy a Powerball ticket with numbers 6-7-16-23-26 and Powerball number 4, Mavis Wanczyk faced a horde of TV cameras at Massachusetts Lottery headquarters in Braintree. An oversized novelty check made out to her for $758.7 million rested nearby. Wanczyk, 53, said she went to the store Wednesday to buy a lottery ticket and said winning the lottery has been a 'pipe dream' of hers for years. 'Maybe it's me, maybe it won't be me,' she said she thought as she was buying the winning ticket. 'There's a chance, a chance I had to take .'"
- "Fixing a Highway-Shaped Hole in the Heart of Black Boston," by Erick Trickey, NextCity.org: "[Catherine] Hardaway, who now lives in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood, has done her part to rebuild Dudley. As executive director of Central Boston Elder Services, she's developed a 57-unit apartment building for seniors and an office that houses her 165 home-care employees. ... Now, Hardaway is impatient to see more growth in Dudley Square - more businesses, fewer vacancies. She wants it to look more like the main streets in Jamaica Plain and Hyde Park, Boston neighborhoods with more family-owned stores and restaurants."
- "Wind-power opponents dominate comments at Savoy hearing," by Larry Parnass, Berkshire Eagle: "A half hour into a public hearing Thursday night at the Savoy firehouse, Bobby LaBonte and more than half a dozen others walked out. He paused in the parking lot to explain why. 'This meeting just got carried away, because of too many people from out of town," he said. "We just got sick of hearing it.' While the official business was a proposal to increase the maximum height of already approved wind-power turbines, the hearing turned into a wider and contentious critique of wind power's safety in rural communities."
- "Salem seeks proposals for citywide fiber optics network," by Dustin Luca, Salem News: "City Hall is calling out for companies to build a citywide fiber-optic network that would bring more high-speed internet options to Salem residents and businesses over the next couple of years. A request for proposals was issued this week, asking interested bidders to make their pitch for how they'd build a 'high-speed, robust and well-designed (fiber) system for the city of Salem.'"
THE WARREN REPORT
- "About 1,000 turn out in Marshfield to listen to Warren," by Zane Razzaq, Patriot Ledger: "U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's "town hall tour" made its first stop on the South Shore Thursday evening. At Marshfield's Furnace Brook Middle School, Warren took the stage in a room packed with more than 600 people. There were about 400 more in an overflow room."
TSONGAS ARENA
- "Eldridge drops out of race for coveted congressional seat," by Matt Stout, Boston Herald: "State Sen. Jamie Eldridge said today he will not run for U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas' open Congressional seat, removing a well-known progressive name from the mix of potential candidates. Eldridge, an Acton Democrat who ran for the seat against Tsongas in 2007, said he will instead seek re-election in 2018 for the state Senate, which has trended to the left in recent years."
- "Battenfeld: Dan Koh's credentials may not thrill 3rd District," Boston Herald: "Koh's tenure at Boston City Hall may not be something he wants to put on a campaign flyer...Voters in Haverhill, Lowell or Lawrence may not care about or even like Boston City Hall."
WOOD WAR - Herald: "LOVE SHARK" "ARROYO OUT." - Globe: "That's the ticket! Um, wait...," "Teachers, city reach tentative contract," "After lottery flub, winner takes $758.7m in Chicopee," "I couldn't drive anywhere, I couldn't do anything," "Walsh fires Arroyo after investigation," "Derailed by an apathetic T," "The swamp's not drained, but lobbying is way down."
BONUS HISTORY LESSON: This week in 1854,the first African-American physician admitted to a U.S. medical society joined the Massachusetts Medical Society. Read his remarkable story here
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to communications director for Treasurer Deb Goldberg Chandra Allard, Fidelity's senior director of public policy research and communication Meg Reilly and Maria Nation.
HAPPY BIRTHWEEKEND - to Romney alum Eric Fehrnstrom, South Boston State Rep. Nick Collins, 7News reporter Sharman Sacchetti, Hampshire County Register of Deeds Mary Olberding, Brandeis University Community Engagement Officer Angela Vo, and WRKO's "Sound Off" host John MacGillivray.
DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? No! -- The Red Sox fell to the Cleveland Indians 13-6.
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