Briefings: New Springfield City Hall Hires Telegraph Broader Transitions Afoot…
Slowly but surely, Mayor Domenic Sarno is backfilling the parade of retirements and reassignments that have emptied leadership in Springfield city government. Since his reelection—or before if you...
View ArticleTake My Council, Please: Aspirations for a City on the Hill…
SPRINGFIELD—A relatively tame agenda before the City Council Monday quickly unraveled into much longer discourses. The body spent a considerable amount of time mediating on technical changes to legal...
View ArticleAnalysis: Soldiers’ Home Justice Is a Bigger Project Than Two Defendants’...
Nearly four years after the shroud of the coronavirus fell upon Holyoke and the then-Soldiers’ Home, its final legal drama has apparently concluded. The only two people to face criminal charges from...
View ArticleA LaChapelle Mayoralty & a Mayors Presidency…or What Happens When Making Plans…
EASTHAMPTON—Despite years of involvement with Democratic politics, it is no secret that the 2016 election was a turning point for Nicole LaChapelle. Two reelections later, LaChapelle will not seek...
View ArticleSarno Imports Familiar Name from across the River for Next City Solicitor…
UPDATED Another major staffing change has hit Springfield City Hall with the exit of City Solicitor John Payne. Mayor Domenic Sarno has chosen former legislator and onetime district attorney candidate...
View ArticleBriefings: Cast Changes Break up Rules Committee’s Odd Couple after 2 1/2...
A rare mid-Congress shakeup has changed the committee counterpart of one of the 413’s congressmen. At the tail end of Tuesday’s Rules Committee meeting, Ranking Member James McGovern, a Worcester...
View ArticleTake My Council, Please: Atoning for the Acts of Omission…
The Springfield City Council digested a simple agenda quickly on Monday. The only scent of discord arose from a split vote to transfer funds over a lawsuit. However, that conversation took place in...
View ArticleBriefings: Philly Transit Agency Drops CRRC As Future Railcar Work Dwindles…
Weeks after reports appeared that MGM Resorts International is considering selling MGM Springfield, another blow has come to a city economic anchor. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportations...
View ArticleWestfield Councilor Files in Western Mass Swing District, Taking on Incumbent...
few of the region’s incumbents face much risk in the general election. But now, one of the region’s true swing seats, anchored in Westfield, a swing community itself, will have a contest. City...
View ArticleDo Svidaniya, Holyoke: Stitching Together Puello-Mota’s Russian New Year…
A little over three months ago, freshly relieved of his duties as a city councilor in Holyoke, Wilmer Puello-Mota was preparing for trial or a plea. Until he wasn’t. The state of Rhode Island was...
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