Safe Communities Act – A Brief History of Legislative Inaction
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LEFT FIELD: Progressive Massachusetts is rolling out endorsements for several candidates on Friday. The group is backing state Representative Tram Nguyen in the state’s Sixth Congressional District Democratic primary and state Senate hopefuls Gayle and Persis
First Round of Endorsements June 2026
The Massachusetts state primary is less than three months away on Tuesday, September 1, and the general election is less than five months away on Tuesday, November 3. That time
MA House Votes 153-3 to Rein in Politically Motivated Book Bans
Yesterday, the MA House voted 153 to 3 for a bill to protect school and public libraries and to rein in politically motivated book bans. The 3 NO votes were
Coalition Letter in Support of H.2554
June 1, 2026The Honorable Aaron MichlewitzChair, House Committee on Ways and MeansState House, Room 24324 Beacon St.Boston, MA 02133 Dear Chairman Michlewitz and Committee Members,We are writing to you in
MA House Unanimously Passes Data Privacy Bill
On Thursday, the MA House unanimously passed the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act, establishing important new data privacy protections. In particular, the bill would do the following: The MA Senate
TODAY: Tell Your State Rep: Pass a Strong Data Privacy Bill
The Massachusetts House of Representatives will be voting TODAY, on a data privacy bill. Your precise location data – showing which doctor’s office you visited last month, which NO KINGS rallies you’ve
Op-Ed: “An Abundance of Questions Coming to the November Ballot”
Jonathan Cohn, “An Abundance of Questions Coming to the November Ballot,” Fenway News, June 2026. With the onset of spring weather in May came a biennial Massachusetts tradition: signature collectors
MA Could Have up to 11 Ballot Questions This Year, But This One Is Already on the Ballot.
You’ve probably seen signature collectors out in force for the *10* campaigns currently collecting to get questions on the November ballot. But what you need to remember is that there
Rent Control and Same Day Registration Are in the Mass Dems Platform. Beacon Hill Should Pass Them.
It’s ballot question signature collection season. When going to the grocery store or the farmer’s market, you may have started seeing people collecting for various questions. Maybe you are even
My Top Five Favorite Songs about Data Privacy
Today, technology has far outpaced privacy law. Data brokers and Big Tech are free to do almost anything they want with our personal information, including selling our cellphone location data