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Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin, one of the most aggressive securities regulators in the country, announced Monday that he will seek an eighth consecutive term in office that's unprecedented in the state. Here's a look at some of the biggest cases of his tenure so far.
The nomination of the Southborough Center Historic District to be placed on the National Register of Historic Places is moving forward.
Massachusetts grew older, less white and more populated during the past decade, according to information released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
June 23 O’Connell told the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that he decided to remain unregistered because “it was too expensive to stay registered for just seven clients,” according to the court documents. When a 69-year-old client decided to sell their house and buy a condo, O’Connell recommended taking out a 30-year variable interest rate mortgage on the new property and investing the house-sale proceeds with him. “If they do not accelerate payments, Client 1 will be a few months shy of 100 years old at the time the mortgage is paid,” Galvin’s offi...
BOSTON (AP) â Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing whether to take some of the voting changes adopted at the height of the pandemic â including the broad use of mail-in voting â and make them permanent. The state took that step and others â including expanding the use of early voting and ballot drop boxes â to help diminish the pandemic health risk of voters crowding polling locations. Many of those changes proved popular, leading to a push to write them into state law. âThe pandemic is coming to an end and we have to think about whether we want to make some of t...