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POLITICO Get the Massachusetts Playbook newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Presented by Uber Driver Stories MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. MARKEY MAKES HIS CASE — Remember those couple of weeks at the end of the 2020 election when Joe Biden was getting pressed about court-packing over and over? A group of Democ...

Roslindale/West Roxbury senior notes Community Content Note: In response to concerns about the coronavirus, area events may be subject to cancellation, postponement or attendance limits. Please contact organizers to confirm event details. Attention seniors The West Roxbury and Roslindale Transcript welcome your news. We publish every Thursday and are eager to publish your activities in this section. Please email any updates to this list to transcript@wickedlocal.com by the Wednesday prior to publication. The Villagers The Villagers of Roslindale meet at St. John Chrysostom Church hall, 4740 W...

Newtonville resident to participate in Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger Courtesy of Project Bread NEWTONVILLE — On May 2, Erika Cain, of Newtonville, will lace up for Project Bread’s 53rd annual Walk for Hunger.  She will be among thousands of virtual participants to walk in their own neighborhoods to raise more than $1 million to help get food to kids and families during the COVID-19 crisis. Historically, the Walk for Hunger, the nation’s oldest continual pledge walk, takes place the first Sunday of May on the Boston Common. The 2021 fundraiser will be the second event to be done vir...

Wicked Local It was 1996 when Paul Collins and his family moved back home to Winchester after spending 16 years as an “economic refuge” in New York state. After reading an article about Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger -- the leading statewide anti-hunger nonprofit -- he thought it would a great civic duty to help the cause. He had been interested in hunger in America from a social-justice perspective for a while and felt he could do something small and teach his kids a lesson about the world outside of Winchester and the “comfortable life” many Winchester families enjoy. “We organ...

The number of Massachusetts households receiving food assistance benefits is 26% higher than it was a year ago, and there could be another 700,000 people who are eligible for the aid but are not receiving it, advocates said Monday. Speakers at a virtual briefing hosted by the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Greater Boston Food Bank, Project Bread and Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of Social Workers highlighted a bill that aims to connect that population with nutrition benefits. Legislation filed by Rep. Jay Livingstone and Sen. Sal DiDomenico (HD 1500, SD 1015) proposes...