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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. TGIF.
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: MOULTON'S LAST-MINUTE TRAVEL — As we hurtle toward the midterm elections, Rep. Seth Moulton is heading to four states next week to throw his support behind Democrats running in close races.
The congressman often says he's dead-set on winning back the House, and he's been backing House candidates through his Support America PAC to make it happen. Moulton travels to rural Kentucky on Tuesday to appear with Amy McGrath, a retired Marine who served three combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. The next day, he hits Ohio for a rally with Aftab Pureval.
On Friday, Moulton makes a swing to New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He'll appear in conversation with former Navy pilot and federal prosecutor Mikie Sherrill, and Afghanistan veteran Josh Welle. In Pennsylvania, he rallies with Jennifer O'Mara, a candidate for state representative. The following day, Moulton attends a service event with former national security official Andy Kim and a canvass kickoff with Chrissy Houlahan, a former Air Force officer and businesswoman.
Aside from his own travel, Moulton is sending 16 campaign staffers to more than a dozen districts in Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Texas and Virginia, his campaign says. Serve America is also sending cash to state parties and committees in Alabama, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Back at home, Moulton's campaign has five organizers working with the state party's coordinated campaign, and he plans to appear at get out the vote events in his own district in the final days before Nov. 6.
KENNEDY and CLARK HIT THE ROAD — Rep. Joe Kennedy III and Rep. Katherine Clark are also on the trail this weekend and next week. Clark will be in New York this weekend, first for Antonio Delgado in the Hudson Valley and then for Dana Balter in Syracuse until Monday. On Tuesday, she travels to Pennsylvania for Houlahan.
As vice chairwoman of recruitment for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Clark has been across the country for Democrats running in Republican districts. Kennedy is a regional vice chair for the DCCC.
Kennedy be in Minnesota on Monday for gubernatorial candidate Tim Walz and House candidates Angie Craig, Joe Radinovich, Dan Feehan and Dean Phillips, his campaign says. And on Friday, Kennedy will visit West Virginia for House candidates Talley Sergent and Richard Ojeda.
More travel might be in the works, according to Kennedy's campaign, and he was in Wisconsin and Illinois on Thursday for Sen. Tammy Baldwin and House candidates Sean Casten and Lauren Underwood.
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TODAY — Gov. Charlie Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito and Chief Recovery Officer for the Greater Lawrence restoration project Joe Albanese join Lawrence Mayor Daniel Rivera, North Andover Town Manager Andrew Maylor and Andover Town Manager Andrew Flanagan for a press conference at Columbia Gas in Lawrence. Baker joins Sen. Ed Markey, Attorney General Maura Healey and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for a ribbon cutting at the Home Base National Center for Excellence.
Rep. Katherine Clark is the featured speaker at the Framingham Heart Study 70th anniversary celebration. Candidate for Congress Lori Trahan holds an early voting rally in Lowell with Democrat for governor Jay Gonzalez . Artists from "The Spoon Movement" leave a giant heroin spoon sculpture in front of the State House to laud Attorney General Maura Healey for her work on the opioid crisis. Independent Third District candidate Michael Mullen is a guest on WBUR's "Radio Boston."
Secretary of State William Galvin announces this weekend's early voting in Somerville. Craig Philips, counselor to the secretary at the U.S. Department of Treasury, delivers remarks at a financial tech event hosted by the New England Council. Massachusetts Department of Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack attends a rush hour event to celebrate the Mt. Auburn Street Bus Priority Pilot, hosted by Cambridge and Watertown.
CHARLIE BAKER FAIL! POLITICAL HACKS HAVE NO IDEA
HOW TO RUN A TRANSIT SYSTEM AND WHAT COMMUTER NEED!
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- "On mass transit, Baker's promises and commuters' experiences often diverge," by Adam Vaccaro, Boston Globe: "Cloie Andrysiak has heard all the ways Governor Charlie Baker has promised to fix her commute. New subway cars and new signaling systems should make Red Line service noticeably more frequent and the trains less crowded — by 2025. And yet, when Andrysiak finds herself packed elbow-to-backpack with other commuters and the train stops unexpectedly, that not-so-distant date has little meaning."
- "INVESTIGATION TIMELINE LENGTHENS AS WYNN TEASES CASINO RESERVATIONS," by Colin A. Young, State House News Service: "The Massachusetts Gaming Commission started 2018 off by launching an investigation into former casino magnate Steve Wynn and what Wynn Resorts executives knew of sexual misconduct allegations against him when the company obtained a Massachusetts casino license, and the commission is likely to end 2018 by making its findings public."
- "Law enforcement group calls State Police reforms 'inadequate,'" by Matt Rocheleau, Boston Globe: "A local group of active and retired law enforcement personnel says recent efforts to reform the scandal-plagued Massachusetts State Police have been "inadequate" and is calling on Governor Charlie Baker to create an oversight panel whose members have no ties to state politics."
- "BREAKTHROUGH ON END-OF-SESSION CIVICS BILL MAY BE NEAR," by Katie Lannan, State House News Service: "A civics education bill that's been in limbo since Gov. Charlie Baker returned it to lawmakers in August with an amendment resurfaced on the Senate floor Thursday, and further action is expected on it next week. The bill (S 2631), a piece of compromise legislation that passed the House and Senate unanimously on July 25, establishes a high school voter registration challenge, strengthens requirements around civics education in public schools and calls on each public school serving students in the eighth grade and each public high school to provide at least one student-led civics project for each student."
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- "Jay Gonzalez gets additional public financing for gubernatorial challenge," by Joshua Miller, Boston Globe: "In the final cash dash, taxpayers have given Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jay Gonzalez a boost. Gonzalez and lieutenant governor hopeful Quentin Palfrey got an additional $84,000 in public financing, state officials announced Thursday, bringing the total the Democratic ticket has received to $626,000 for the general election period. Still, the Democrat lags behind Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito by a massive margin."
- "Another alumnus of Elizabeth Warren's Harvard class is running for office," by Victoria McGrane, Boston Globe: "If Democrat Quentin Palfrey prevails in his bid to be Massachusetts's next Lieutenant Governor, he'll be the fourth of US Senator Elizabeth Warren's former Harvard Law School students to win elected office. The other Warren alumni holding elected office are Boston City Council member Michelle Wu and US Representative Joe Kennedy III."
- "AG Maura Healey: Trump memo shows importance of upholding Massachusetts' transgender law," by Shira Schoenberg, Springfield Republican: "If President Donald Trump changes the definition of gender to effectively exclude transgender people, Attorney General Maura Healey said state law will govern protections in Massachusetts. The New York Times reported that in an internal memo, Trump administration officials floated the idea of updating the federal definition of gender to define it as a biological, immutable condition defined by genitalia at birth. This could eliminate rights for transgender people in areas like federal anti-discrimination laws."
- "7 Questions About The Transgender Rights Ballot Measure," by Gabrielle Emanuel: " Ballot Question 3 is the country's first statewide referendum on transgender rights. In November, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to keep a 2016 law that protects transgender people from discrimination in places open to the public, including hospitals, restaurants, and hotels. The main point of contention has been the provision that transgender individuals can use bathrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms that match their identity — and not necessarily their biology or sex assigned at birth."
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- "Baker launches unusual 60-second TV ad," by Joshua Miller, Boston Globe: "You won't hear Charlie Baker's voice in the governor's latest ad for re-election. Nor Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. Nor will you see any video of the two candidates for statewide office, nor hear mention of Democratic nominee Jay Gonzalez. You will hear for 60 seconds — twice the length of a normal TV spot — Braintree resident Peter Thompson, who lost his son Ryan to a heroin overdose."
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- "Khashoggi killing spotlights Saudi money flowing to Harvard, MIT," by Michael Levenson, Boston Globe: "Mohammed bin Salman slipped into Cambridge in March under heavy guard, at the start of a three-week tour of the United States designed to burnish his image as a reformer. In the coming days, the Saudi crown prince would meet with Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, and Oprah Winfrey. But on this day, he was being welcomed by two of the world's great universities. With no notice to the wider MIT or Harvard communities, he arrived in an armored vehicle with black-clad security personnel posted on the rooftops."
- "'They're Bold and Fresh': The Millennials Disrupting Boston's Transit System," by Erick Trickey, POLITICO Magazine: "One Sunday night two years ago, Marc Ebuña and Ari Ofsevit stayed up past 1 a.m. to watch the city's transit system grind to a pointless halt. Sitting in their respective apartments, they were monitoring a website that tracks Boston's rapid-transit trains in real time. 'I live-tweeted the late-night ballet, the last-trains ballet,' Ebuña says. Except what they were seeing was more of a citywide muscle spasm than an elegant dance."
- "A Quest To Find The Last Two Active Voters In Boston's 'Phantom Electoral Precinct,'" by Edgar B. Herwick III, WGBH News: " Election Day 2018 is just around the corner, and that means planning for election day coverage in the WGBH newsroom is in full swing. It also means that, like clockwork, our managing editor, Jeff Keating, once again came knocking on the Curiosity Desk's proverbial door. Each election day, Keating monitors the hour-by-hour election returns from the city of Boston, and there's been a question that has been nagging him for years."
- "Man killed by Orange Line train in Jamaica Plain," by Danny McDonald and Alyssa Meyers, Boston Globe: "A man was struck and killed by an Orange line train at the Green Street station in Jamaica Plain Thursday night, an official said. Boston fire deputy chief Andre Stallworth said crews responded to the station at about 7:45 p.m. A body of a man believed to be in his 40s was recovered and passengers who were riding on the train that struck him were removed from the train."
- "Local law enforcement on alert in wake of mail bomb scare," by Emily Sweeney, Boston Globe: "News of bombs being mailed to prominent Democrats has put local authorities on alert. On Thursday morning the Massachusetts State Police reported that no explosive devices had been mailed to anyone in Massachusetts, and there were no threats of that happening, but the law enforcement agency was taking proactive steps, just in case."
"Boston's Keytar Bear Is a Great Musician, When People Aren't Punching Him," by Alex Norcia, VICE: "It's been a rough few months for Keytar Bear. This past spring, he slipped his motorcycle on sand, crashed, and broke his foot. As a result, he had to sideline his busking for the entire summer. Also, as he casually drops on me, he is now girlfriend-less, and, consequently, between homes. These hard times, however, are not rare for his breed."
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- "US Rep. Katherine Clark lauds inclusion of addiction workforce shortage, e-prescribing measures in new law targeting opioid crisis," By Shannon Young, Springfield Republican: "U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Melrose, touted a new federal law Thursday that seeks to combat the opioid abuse crisis by ensuring better tracking of Medicare prescriptions and helping treatment providers recruit and retain staff. Clark, who has pushed to address shortages in substance use disorder treatment staff and the oversupply of opioids through electronic prescribing, praised the measures' inclusion in the bipartisan-backed 'SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act' that President Donald Trump signed into law Wednesday."
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- "Dem lawmaker urges NLRB to withdraw new labor rule," by Lydia Wheeler, The Hill: " Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) on Thursday urged the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to withdraw a proposed rule that would change the standard for determining when companies can be held liable for labor law violations committed by subcontractors. Under the proposal from the Republican-led board, a company would have to possess and exercise "'substantial, direct and immediate control' over the hiring, firing, discipline, supervision and direction of another firm's employees to be considered a joint-employer, and the control can't be limited or routine."
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— Herald: "MOVE OVER, L.A.," — Globe: "Web of money ties MIT, Harvard to Saudis," "Pipe bomb inquiry focuses on Florida."
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- "Advocates Wonder Why Merrimack Valley Homeless Can't Use Excess Columbia Gas Housing Options," by Quincy Walters, WBUR: "On a chilly Wednesday night, when overnight temperatures will dip into the 30s, about 40 homeless people gather at a bus garage in Lawrence. They gather for dinner, to socialize, to get case management or a haircut. Some sleep there. There's no protection from the cold but there is a bit of protection from the wind."
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- "President of Mercy Medical Center in Springfield notifies staff of plan to eliminate jobs, some departments," by Robert Rizzuto, Springfield Republican: "Citing a challenging economy and financial pressures spurred by the ever-changing health care industry, the president of Mercy Medical Center notified staff this week of coming layoffs and the closure and reorganization of some departments. The letter, sent by President Mark Fulco to staff on Wednesday, said the coming changes were necessary to allow the hospital to continue its mission."
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- "Officer who saved life of Nero, the K-9 of fallen Yarmouth Police Sgt. Sean Gannon, given service award," by Kristen LaFratta, MassLive.com: "Retired Yarmouth Police Officer Peter McClelland remembers April 12 vividly. Shortly before an honorary police event where he is given the Distinguished Service Medal for his actions last spring, McClelland recognizes that he feels entirely out of his 'comfort zone.'"
- "Lombardo, Tribou show clear contrasts in Billerica rep debate," by Elizabeth Dobbins, The Lowell Sun: "Come November, the ballots cast by Republican incumbent state Rep. Marc Lombardo and his Democratic challenger, Chris Tribou, will look very different. In a debate with only a handful of shared stances -- both candidates agreed the Chapter 40B affordable housing law is broken and "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" should be pulled off the air -- Lombardo and Tribou split on issues like bathroom access, campaign finance and nurse staffing ratios."
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