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In July, the State House will vote on transparency rules that one Natick High School group is calling on Rep. David Linsky (D-Natick) to vote "yes" on.

The first House budget of Speaker Ron Mariano’s tenure passed the chamber with little publicly visible resistance.

STATEHOUSE ROUNDUP: Go to the head of the class By Matt Murphy Form a line, single file. No talking. And stay to the right. Teachers are used to enforcing these rules for their pupils, but when it came to their own COVID-19 vaccinations it was only by breaking them that this week they wound up getting exactly what they said was necessary to safely return all children to the classroom. The pressure campaign to vaccinate teachers has been building for weeks, but reached fever pitch after Gov. ...

Pledging more diversity, House speaker Mariano unveils new leadership team, committee chairs The House’s 10-member leadership team, Mariano included, features four women but just one person of color By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated February 12, 2021, 7:46 p.m. Email to a Friend House Speaker Ronald Mariano remade the chamber’s leadership this week, putting slightly more representatives of color in charge of committees, naming the House’s first female majority leader, and appoint...

A pair of firsts for the Mass House leadership team Claire Cronin will become the first female majority leader and Kate Hogan will be the first LGBTQ pro tempore, the No. 3 leader By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated February 11, 2021, 4:25 p.m. Email to a Friend Claire Cronin will become the first female majority leader of the Massachusetts House.Office of Representative Claire D. Cronin House Speaker Ronald Mariano, who pledged to make the chamber’s leadership more diverse when he was elect...

Jeff Turco of Winthrop, former president of the Winthrop Town Council, had $59,700 in his campaign account for state representative as of Dec. 31, 2020, leading the other three candidates in the March 2 Democratic Primary in funds raised for the campaign. The reporting period covered from Dec. 1 to Dec. 31 and the numbers were part of the campaign finance reports that all candidates are required to file with the Mass. Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF). Winthrop School Committee me...

By Melissa Moore-Randall Valentino Capobianco hopes his lifelong commitment to civic engagement will give him the boost needed to be elected to the 19th Suffolk District Representative seat of former Speaker Robert DeLeo.  Valentino Capobianco.  A Winthrop resident and member of the Winthrop School Committee, Capobianco sees both his Winthrop roots as making him the man he is today and the influence of his parents and grandfather. “My experiences growing up in Winthrop definitely made me th...

Alicia DelVento officially announced via video that she is running to fill the Massachusetts House of Representatives 19th Suffolk seat vacated by former Speaker Robert A. DeLeo’s resignation. Alicia currently serves as the Democratic State Committee Woman for the First Suffolk and Middlesex District and previously served as an aide to former House Ways and Means Chairman Jeffrey Sánchez and Representative Danielle Gregoire. As part of the announcement, Alicia released the following statemen...

Giannino to Be Inaugurated as State Representative Today in Boston Jessica Giannino is scheduled to be inaugurated as state representative for the Sixteenth Suffolk District in a ceremony today (Wednesday) at noon in the House Chambers at the State House. Giannino, a Revere councillor-at-large, is succeeding RoseLee Vincent in the seat that encompasses Revere, Chelsea, and Saugus. First City Council Meeting of Year is Monday Night The Revere City Council will be meeting for the first time in th...