Voting at the June 17 Town Meeting

Opposition is growing to the Urbanica proposal to take the Old Library off the Town’s hands for $10,000 and convert its interior into three privately owned luxury condos.

Markey or Gomez: Who Gets Your Vote?

If the special election was today, who would you choose as our new U.S. senator?

A week from Tuesday, Massachusetts voters will decide who to elect in the special election to fill the seat vacated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.  We want to know - if the election was today - who would you vote for? Candidates Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez have been pullling out all the stops in the last two weeks as the latest polls show the gap is narrowing between the two.  After weeks of relative quiet, the negative ads have started to clog the airways and both candidates have had high-profile folks stumping for them. Rudy Guiliani was in town last week putting his support behind Gomez and President Obama came to Boston this week showing his support for Markey. So tell us, if you had to vote today who would …

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Wind Dummy 25

5:21 pm on Monday, June 17, 2013

What are the Communications and video Accessibility act and the prescription Drug Labeling Enhancement act? This is where you guys get weird. If small or business does not invent, test, re test, fight agencies, invest, take risks, market, tweak, re tweak, etc there would be none of these for the public as well as the handicap to buy. All Markeys people do is the easy part. Grab it, tax it, claim …   more ›

State House News Service Weekly Roundup: Olde Home Days

Recap and analysis of the week in state government.

His was not the story of Deval Patrick, or Mitt Romney or Bill Weld.  Argeo Paul Cellucci started local on the Board of Selectmen in his beloved town of Hudson and worked his way up: state representative, state senator, lieutenant governor, governor, ambassador. He was the Calvin Coolidge of his time, according to former Minority Leader Richard Tisei, and Democrats, Republicans and Canadians, alike, loved and respected him for it. Cellucci passed away last weekend after a battle with Lou Gehrig's disease at the age of 65, and on Thursday he became the 13th public figure to lie in state under the State House rotunda. The memorial service and public viewing for the former governor drew a who's-who to Beacon Hill, including Romney, Michael …

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Weston LWV to Host Old Library Project Meeting Tonight

The meeting will be held on June 12.

The Weston League of Women Voters will hold a public meeting about the proposed Old Library project on June 12 at 7 p.m. at the Weston Public Library, according to an announcement from the town.  The meeting is intended to educate residents about the proposed condominiums for the Old Library. Coffee will be served. 

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Markey Up 48-41 on Gomez in New Suffolk Poll

Margin between the two Senate candidates was 52-35 a month ago.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez has narrowed the polling gap with Democratic candidate Edward Markey in a new Suffolk University poll. In a survey of what the university called 500 "tightly-screened" likely voters, Markey has garnered 48 percent of support to Gomez's 41 percent. Ten percent have not yet made up their minds while one percent refused to answer and another one percent are supporting Twelve Visions candidate Richard Heos. “Ed Markey continues to lead but the margin has dwindled,” said David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston in a statement along with Monday's poll results. “Markey’s core ballot test number has fallen below 50 percent and recent Obama administration…

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