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Massachusetts Sen. Ryan Fattman, MassGOP Chair James Lyons may have violated state campaign finance rules, OCPF says Updated Apr 09, 11:37 AM; Posted Apr 09, 11:37 AM Facebook Share Massachusetts Sen. Ryan Fattman, his wife Worcester Register of Probate Stephanie Fattman and other Republican officials are embroiled in a campaign finance investigation where state regulators say they may have violated campaign finance rules. In several letters dated Thursday, the state Office of Campaign and Po...

A senator donated $137,000 to the state GOP. The party then spent that same amount aiding his wife’s campaign By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated April 9, 2021, 5:32 p.m. Email to a Friend Jim Lyons, chairman of the Republican Party in Massachusetts.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff In the churn of the November election, state Senator Ryan Fattman made a series of rapid-fire and hefty donations to the Massachusetts Republican Party, totaling $137,000. And in nearly every instance, the GOP quickly s...

As Equality Act is debated in D.C., gender equality-focused bills collect support at State House The Massachusetts State House in Boston FILE PHOTO Published: 3/16/2021 8:45:43 PM BOSTON – As Congress debates passing a landmark bill to bar discrimination based on gender identity, Massachusetts lawmakers are looking to expand protections already on the books. ”The Equality Act,” passed by the U.S. House on Feb. 25, would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964, adding language that would ban di...

TODAY — Rep. Lori Trahan hosts a Covid-19 tele-town hall. SUBSCRIBE TO "THE RECAST" TO JOIN AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION: Power dynamics are shifting in Washington and across the country, and more people are demanding a seat at the table, insisting that all politics is personal and not all policy is equitable. "The Recast" is a new twice-weekly newsletter that breaks down how race and identity are recasting politics, policy, and power in America. Get fresh insights, scoops, and dispatches on thi...

Article content Windsor is experiencing a not-seen-in-decades surge in applications to build apartment, condo and other multi-residential projects. Data supplied from the city shows that despite how COVID-19 ravaged some sectors of the local economy in 2020, unprecedented demand for housing and rising prices fuelled a stampede towards city hall as developers submitted 24 multi-residential applications, with a total of more than 2,378 units if they all end up getting built. In previous years, th...

Opinion Our car experts choose every product we feature. We may earn money from the links on this page. Phoenix Rising: How the Trans Am Was Turbocharged Was it one guys dream to turbocharge the Trans Am or just a bad couple of years at the end of an era? Only way to find out is to ask. Jessica Lynn WalkerCar and Driver From the April 2021 issue of Car and Driver . The 1977 Pontiac Trans Am gets all the attention, what with its starring role in Smokey and the Bandit, but to me, the turbocha...

‘Change had to happen’ after audit of Essex County retirement board; officials see parallels in Hampden County Updated Mar 07, 2021; SPRINGFIELD — Ten years before a stinging audit of the Hampden County Regional Board of Retirement, there was Essex County. A 2010 audit of the regional retirement board in northeastern Massachusetts exposed lavish travel, patronage and general piggery by its executive director and, to a lesser extent, its board members. The State Ethics Commission in 2011 ...

The Senate Ways and Means committee plans to accept written testimony on the bill until 10 a.m. Monday, Chairman Michael Rodrigues said.

Colin A. Young State House News Service The panel that has been searching for a new director for the Office of Campaign and Political Finance was unanimous Friday in its selection of Woburn City Clerk William Campbell to lead the independent agency that has oversight of the changing world of political campaigns. The search committee -- Secretary of State William Galvin, Democratic Party Chairman Gus Bickford, Republican Party Chairman Jim Lyons and Boston College Law School Dean Vincent Rougeau...

A Trumpster plots a primary challenge to Charlie Baker.