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Flanked by supporters in front of Pittsfield City Hall, state Sen. Adam Hinds on Wednesday launched his campaign for the state's second-highest office.
PITTSFIELD — Speculations of a statewide run were confirmed Wednesday morning as Sen. Adam Hinds officially announced his candidacy for Massachusetts lieutenant governor.Hinds, 46, a Democrat, represents the Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden...
GREENFIELD — If you’re set to fill the shoes of a 32-year veteran Chamber of Commerce executive director, it helps to have some serious street cred.And Natalie Blais has got it, as she’s about to take the helm of Franklin County Chamber of...
‘A good team’: Rep. Jim McGovern, Rep. Richard Neal say Western, Central Massachusetts, will keep House seats following Census Today 5:02 AM Facebook Share U.S. Rep. James McGovern needs about 21,000. And — hemmed in by state borders and facing a slow growing population in Central and Western Massachusetts — they’ll likely only find them by looking east toward the fast-growing Boston suburbs. But how to do that while keeping the districts centered on, and responsive to, the central and western part of the state, a goal both Neal, D-Springfield, and McGovern, D-Worcester, say is do...
Massachusetts grew by enough people over the past decade to keep all its nine US House seats as the state’s population climbed to more than 7 million over the past decade, but Secretary of State William Galvin said on Monday that the process of redrawing Congressional districts still will be challenging. The US Census Bureau released state population totals and Congressional