Writings by Topic: Massachusetts Politics
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| Hooked on power |
The Boston Globe |
March 22, 2026 |
| Beacon Hill can't stand it when voters change the law |
The Boston Globe |
March 8, 2026 |
| Massachusetts keeps losing residents. That's a choice. |
The Boston Globe |
February 4, 2026 |
| What Tip O'Neill understood that Ed Markey doesn't |
The Boston Globe |
August 24, 2025 |
| Speaker Mariano has a problem with voters |
The Boston Globe |
August 13, 2025 |
| Beacon Hill's transparency theater |
The Boston Globe |
June 29, 2025 |
| A penny, more or less |
Arguable |
March 18, 2025 |
| Black patriotism and Martin Luther King Jr. |
Arguable |
January 14, 2025 |
| 'Raise the Age' laws draw more teens into crime |
The Boston Globe |
December 22, 2024 |
| Go home, Massachusetts lawmakers |
The Boston Globe |
December 15, 2024 |
| One columnist's ballot guide: Yes on 1. No on 2, 3, 4, and 5. |
The Boston Globe |
October 13, 2024 |
| In the Calvin Coolidge fan club with Michael Dukakis |
Arguable |
September 24, 2024 |
| Will making community college free make it better? |
The Boston Globe |
July 28, 2024 |
| End the Bay State's war on happy hour |
The Boston Globe |
July 17, 2024 |
| Readers redesign the Massachusetts flag |
The Boston Globe |
July 12, 2024 |
| What a nutty lawsuit |
Arguable |
June 25, 2024 |
| A simple fix for the Massachusetts flag |
The Boston Globe/Arguable |
June 20, 2024 |
| For assistance in dying, please press 1 |
The Boston Globe |
June 12, 2024 |
| Look who's backing DiZoglio's ballot campaign |
The Boston Globe |
November 26, 2023 |
| Jeff Bezos moves to Florida, leaving Washington — and its rising tax burden — behind |
The Boston Globe |
November 8, 2023 |
| Ayotte isn't wrong about New Hampshire and Massachusetts |
The Boston Globe |
August 9, 2023 |
| André Watts, 1946-2023 |
Arguable |
August 1, 2023 |
| DiZoglio's former opponent is rooting for her to win |
The Boston Globe |
July 12, 2023 |
| The Celtics, the Mavericks, and the "millionaire's tax" |
Arguable |
July 11, 2023 |
| As 'Taxachusetts' returns, residents are fleeing |
The Boston Globe |
May 28, 2023 |
| Rachael Rollins was a disgrace |
The Boston Globe |
May 21, 2023 |
| The case for a digital state lottery is as weak as ever |
The Boston Globe |
May 10, 2023 |
| Which former governor should Healey hang? |
The Boston Globe |
April 23, 2023 |
| In-state tuition isn't an immigration issue |
The Boston Globe |
January 18, 2023 |
| Legislators should be free |
The Boston Globe / Arguable |
January 11, 2023 |
| RIP, CLT |
The Boston Globe |
November 16, 2022 |
| What the Yes on Question 1 and No on Question 4 campaigns have in common |
The Boston Globe |
November 6, 2022 |
| An all-Democratic state government needs a Republican watchdog |
The Boston Globe |
September 21, 2022 |
| Millionaires tax is unwise and unworthy |
The Boston Globe |
July 27, 2022 |
| A roadmap for Jew-haters |
The Boston Globe |
June 15, 2022 |
| Boston's ignominious record of disrespecting free speech |
The Boston Globe |
May 8, 2022 |
| Bye-bye, Bay State |
The Boston Globe |
January 5, 2022 |
| The Massachusetts redistricting battle is more evidence that Congress is too small |
The Boston Globe |
November 14, 2021 |
| Focus on your day job, Governor Baker |
The Boston Globe |
November 10, 2021 |
| Why Beacon Hill resents ballot activists |
The Boston Globe |
October 17, 2021 |
| Legalizing assisted suicide would send a devastating message |
The Boston Globe |
October 10, 2021 |
| Beacon Hill, hoarding billions in surplus dollars, won't give taxpayers a break |
The Boston Globe |
July 14, 2021 |
| Online Lottery games would be a bad bet |
The Boston Globe |
June 27, 2021 |
| A 'millionaires tax' is still a terrible idea |
The Boston Globe |
June 9, 2021 |
| A new Legislature convenes and three pay hikes kick in. Only in Massachusetts |
The Boston Globe |
January 6, 2021 |
| 'Whatever helps Democrats the most' |
The Boston Globe |
November 18, 2020 |
| Michigan and Pennsylvania courts struck down pandemic orders. Will the SJC? |
The Boston Globe |
October 11, 2020 |
| Ranked choice is the wrong choice |
The Boston Globe |
September 20, 2020 |
| The Kennedy dynasty (finally) wears out its welcome |
The Boston Globe |
September 6, 2020 |
| State lawmakers need to have more say in a crisis |
The Boston Globe |
May 10, 2020 |
| Keep politicians' names off relief checks. And everything else. |
The Boston Globe |
May 3, 2020 |
| Beacon Hill to riders and drivers: Drop dead |
The Boston Globe |
March 8, 2020 |
| Should it be illegal to sit out an election? |
The Boston Globe |
February 12, 2020 |
| When Massachusetts was the battlefield in the war on Christmas |
The Boston Globe |
December 25, 2019 |
| Your legislature in inaction |
The Boston Globe |
July 10, 2019 |
| Remembering Ray Shamie |
Arguable |
June 3, 2019 |
| Those imprisoned for breaking laws should have no say in making laws |
The Boston Globe |
April 17, 2019 |
| On the folly of rent control, right and left agree |
The Boston Globe |
April 7, 2019 |
| Bill Weld's true north is that he has no true north |
The Boston Globe |
February 3, 2019 |
| Three reasons to vote No on Question 3 |
The Boston Globe |
November 4, 2018 |
| From child refugee to Green Beret — to Congress? |
The Boston Globe |
August 19, 2018 |
| Short live the Legislature! |
The Boston Globe |
August 12, 2018 |
| The cynical 'millionaires tax' didn't fool the SJC |
The Boston Globe |
June 20, 2018 |
| The misleading case for a millionaires' surtax |
The Boston Globe |
April 11, 2018 |
| If the SJC sticks to precedent, the 'millionaire tax' is going nowhere |
The Boston Globe |
December 13, 2017 |
| Bribes — er, incentives — for Amazon |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 2017 |
| An 80% tax surcharge on millionaires? Don't fall for it, voters |
The Boston Globe |
June 21, 2017 |
| Delete your commission (and boards and task forces, too) |
The Boston Globe |
January 22, 2017 |
| Healey's Exxon witch-hunt |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2016 |
| Don't raise the charter-school cap. Eliminate it |
The Boston Globe |
November 2, 2016 |
| The happiest of happy warriors |
The Boston Globe |
April 11, 2016 |
| GE, Massachusetts, and the corruption of crony capitalism |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 2016 |
| The return of the grad-tax hustle |
The Boston Globe |
July 29, 2015 |
| Repeal that law school |
The Boston Globe |
May 13, 2015 |
| Campaign contributions and double standards |
The Boston Globe |
March 15, 2015 |
| Keolis agreed to high standards — not impossible ones |
The Boston Globe |
March 7, 2015 |
| A tip for Deval Patrick: Be like Bush |
The Boston Globe |
January 16, 2015 |
| Deconstructing Baker's inaugural speech |
The Boston Globe |
January 8, 2015 |
| An unlawful scheme to raise legislators' pay |
The Boston Globe |
December 3, 2014 |
| Who'll be looking down on Baker? |
The Boston Globe |
November 28, 2014 |
| Running from the 'R' word |
The Boston Globe |
October 8, 2014 |
| For casinos — and for repealing the casino law |
The Boston Globe |
September 29, 2014 |
| Don't count on an election-day tsunami |
The Boston Globe |
September 14, 2014 |
| I'm unenrolled. I'm conservative. Which Democrat should I vote for? |
The Boston Globe |
August 31, 2014 |
| How about a year-round tax holiday? |
The Boston Globe |
August 10, 2014 |
| Dissenters in a one-party statehouse |
The Boston Globe |
July 6, 2014 |
| Blinders and buffer zones |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 2014 |
| A 'classic sweetheart deal' |
The Boston Globe |
June 4, 2014 |
| Why no wine online in Massachusetts? |
The Boston Globe |
April 2, 2014 |
| Does the First Amendment stop at 35 feet? |
The Boston Globe |
November 10, 2013 |
| The bitter pill of failed state tax incentives |
The Boston Globe |
November 6, 2013 |
| Logan Airport is too important to be run by the state |
The Boston Globe |
September 1, 2013 |
| An invitation from the Sunshine State |
The Boston Globe |
August 18, 2013 |
| Political elite should shun Bill Bulger |
The Boston Globe |
June 23, 2013 |
| Is this any way to help the poor? |
The Boston Globe |
June 2, 2013 |
| The most useless job in the state |
The Boston Globe |
May 26, 2013 |
| Can Gabriel Gomez crack the code? |
The Boston Globe |
May 5, 2013 |
| Winslow's media endorsements were no game changer |
The Boston Globe |
May 1, 2013 |
| After the 'toughest' gun law, gun crime rose |
The Boston Globe |
February 17, 2013 |
| A guaranteed flop |
The Boston Globe |
February 6, 2013 |
| Incumbents forever |
The Boston Globe |
November 18, 2012 |
| Rx for the Mass. GOP: clarity and conviction |
The Boston Globe |
November 11, 2012 |
| What would Hippocrates do? |
The Boston Globe |
October 17, 2012 |
| Health care: No, the state doesn't know best |
The Boston Globe |
May 16, 2012 |
| For Elizabeth Warren, a story from 1984 |
The Boston Globe |
September 18, 2011 |
| Close the door on public-sector unions |
The Boston Globe |
July 13, 2011 |
| The tax break game |
The Boston Globe |
June 12, 2011 |
| Beacon Hill's 'old school' corruption |
The Boston Globe |
January 2, 2011 |
| Yes on 3: Four reasons to roll back the sales tax |
The Boston Globe |
October 24, 2010 |
| Fannie, Freddie, Frank, and fiction |
The Boston Globe |
October 20, 2010 |
| The man out to topple Barney Frank |
The Boston Globe |
September 8, 2010 |
| Electoral College bypassers should be careful what they wish for |
The Boston Globe |
August 1, 2010 |
| The union-only protection racket |
The Boston Globe |
June 27, 2010 |
| A blessing in disguise |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 2010 |
| On the Senate race in Massachusetts |
Bill Bennett's Morning in America |
January 18, 2010 |
| Blame Obama for the bluest state's blues |
The Boston Globe |
January 17, 2010 |
| It's the people's seat, and it's up for grabs |
The Boston Globe |
January 12, 2010 |
| Musings, random and otherwise |
The Boston Globe |
December 27, 2009 |
| Anybody but Coakley or Capuano |
The Boston Globe |
November 25, 2009 |
| The right is wrong on illegal immigration |
The Boston Globe |
November 22, 2009 |
| A very liberal foursome |
The Boston Globe |
October 27, 2009 |
| CLT's last hurrah? |
The Boston Globe |
October 25, 2009 |
| Do the right thing, Senator Kennedy. Resign |
The Boston Globe |
August 23, 2009 |
| The Bay State's low standards |
The Boston Globe |
June 13, 2009 |
| The pension wolves |
The Boston Globe |
April 1, 2009 |
| Cradle of democracy? |
The Boston Globe |
March 18, 2009 |
| Voting 'No' on Question 1 will send a message too |
The Boston Globe |
November 2, 2008 |
| It's time for a 'blunt budget ax' |
The Boston Globe |
October 5, 2008 |
| Are we angry enough to fight back? |
The Boston Globe |
July 20, 2008 |
| Poor, poor, pitiful pols |
The Boston Globe |
June 8, 2008 |
| A resolution: Abolish the income tax |
The Boston Globe |
December 30, 2007 |
| Governor Deluxe makes no apologies |
The Boston Globe |
February 21, 2007 |
| The Constitution's guardrails |
The Boston Globe |
December 17, 2006 |
| End to one troubling chapter, but a reopening of another one |
The Boston Globe |
November 7, 2006 |
| 'Borking' Kerry Healey |
The Boston Globe |
October 11, 2006 |
| A mockery of the rules |
The Boston Globe |
July 9, 2006 |
| Mass. exodus |
The Boston Globe |
January 15, 2006 |
| The issuing of same-sex marriage licenses by the state of Massachusetts |
NPR: All Things Considered |
May 17, 2004 |
| Give the new tunnel a nonpolitical name |
The Boston Globe |
October 26, 2003 |
| Out of a job he should never have had |
The Boston Globe |
August 10, 2003 |
| Will they gut Question 2? |
The Boston Globe |
November 7, 2002 |
| Making the case for Question 1 |
The Boston Globe |
October 27, 2002 |
| Romney's secret 'R' |
The Boston Globe |
October 6, 2002 |
| Rolling out the 'Finneran gambit' |
The Boston Globe |
April 25, 2002 |
| Mitt is mainstream |
The Boston Globe |
March 28, 2002 |
| Swift shows true grit when it comes to taxes |
The Boston Globe |
February 28, 2002 |
| Hands off the tax cut |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 2002 |
| Musings, random and otherwise |
The Boston Globe |
January 17, 2002 |
| Will they kill the tax cut? |
The Boston Globe |
November 15, 2001 |
| Why the Community Preservation Act is a bad idea |
The Boston Globe |
November 4, 2001 |
| The swollen state budget |
The Boston Globe |
October 18, 2001 |
| Brian Joyce — a change of heart, or a betrayal? |
The Boston Globe |
September 9, 2001 |
| Could Massachusetts survive without an income tax? Of course! |
The Boston Globe |
July 31, 2001 |
| Finneran's map passes the test |
The Boston Globe |
July 16, 2001 |
| Against the tax cut? Give it back. |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2000 |
| Last rites for the GOP in Massachusetts |
The Boston Globe |
November 9, 2000 |
| Who killed the Massachusetts GOP? |
The Boston Globe |
May 15, 2000 |
| The trashing of Jack E. Robinson |
The Boston Globe |
March 27, 2000 |
| Big money for the Big Dig |
The Boston Globe |
March 13, 2000 |
| The real meaning of Willie Horton |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 2000 |
| Ed reform earns an F |
The Boston Globe |
December 2, 1999 |
| Our year-round, do-nothing Legislature |
The Boston Globe |
October 18, 1999 |
| Weld's vanishing legacy |
The Boston Globe |
July 15, 1999 |
| Ray Shamie's last campaign |
The Boston Globe |
May 24, 1999 |
| Who wrecked the Massachusetts GOP? |
The Boston Globe |
November 9, 1998 |
| In the 8th District, it makes no difference who wins |
The Boston Globe |
September 10, 1998 |
| Shorter and sweeter on Beacon Hill |
The Boston Globe |
September 7, 1998 |
| What Malone knows and Cellucci doesn't |
The Boston Globe |
August 27, 1998 |
| Antitax group giving up? |
The Boston Globe |
June 11, 1998 |
| Speaker Finneran to Massachusetts taxpayers: Drop dead |
The Boston Globe |
January 15, 1998 |
| Cellucci, Malone, and the Republican Future |
CommonWealth |
Summer 1998 |
| Wannabe Weld, pot-stirrer |
The Boston Globe |
July 29, 1997 |
| The fall of term limits — and the SJC |
The Boston Globe |
July 17, 1997 |
| Raises for Finneran's pals, but no relief for taxpayers |
The Boston Globe |
July 8, 1997 |
| When smoking is outlawed, only lawmakers will smoke |
The Boston Globe |
June 19, 1997 |
| At UMass, student lawbreaking has grown routine |
The Boston Globe |
June 3, 1997 |
| Why is the state so secretive about its standardized tests? |
The Boston Globe |
December 10, 1996 |
| Good riddance to a disgraceful speaker |
The Boston Globe |
November 26, 1996 |
| Moakley doesn't know when to quit |
The Boston Globe |
October 31, 1996 |
| Why Johnny still can't read (or write or do math) |
The Boston Globe |
October 29, 1996 |
| Four ways to jump-start the Kerry campaign |
The Boston Globe |
September 26, 1996 |
| A nominee of a different color |
The Boston Globe |
September 10, 1996 |
| Cut the fawning over Justice Liacos |
The Boston Globe |
July 11, 1996 |
| Rent control, RIP |
The Boston Globe |
April 30, 1996 |
| A worried John Kerry |
The Boston Globe |
April 9, 1996 |
| Finneran: speaker of the House, not the Democratic caucus |
The Boston Globe |
April 4, 1996 |
| Rx for the Legislature: Trim the fat |
The Boston Globe |
March 7, 1996 |
| Legislative greed |
The Boston Globe |
March 5, 1996 |
| Bill Weld's shifting standards |
The Boston Globe |
February 13, 1996 |
| Bill Weld's Revolution that Wasn't |
City Journal |
Winter 1996 |
| A ban on negative ads, Sen. Kerry? Why wait? |
The Boston Globe |
December 12, 1995 |
| Another blow to UMass's reputation |
The Boston Globe |
November 28, 1995 |
| So Weld is downsizing government? Seeing is believing |
The Boston Globe |
November 2, 1995 |
| If Packwood isn't fit to be a senator, why is Kennedy? |
The Boston Globe |
September 12, 1995 |
| Macworld's lesson for the megaplex debate |
The Boston Globe |
August 10, 1995 |
| Targeting the pay raisers |
The Boston Globe |
August 1, 1995 |
| Politics and Higher Ed 101 |
The Boston Globe |
June 22, 1995 |
| Freedom is the loser with a government-run 'megaplex' |
The Boston Globe |
May 25, 1995 |
| A two-front war against MassPIRG's duplicity |
The Boston Globe |
April 13, 1995 |
| The one thing the MDC excels at -- protecting itself |
The Boston Globe |
February 21, 1995 |
| Convention wisdom |
The Boston Globe |
December 13, 1994 |
| Governor Weld: Just another hack |
The Boston Globe |
December 6, 1994 |
| Face it: Rent control is dead |
The Boston Globe |
November 29, 1994 |
| Legislative pay hike is a done deal |
The Boston Globe |
November 22, 1994 |
| Why is this state different from all other states? |
The Boston Globe |
November 10, 1994 |
| Mired in Kennedy country |
The Boston Globe |
November 3, 1994 |
| In the 9th district, a fine candidate going nowhere |
The Boston Globe |
November 1, 1994 |
| Questions 4 and 5: power to the people |
The Boston Globe |
October 28, 1994 |
| Ted's spear: broken |
The Boston Globe |
October 26, 1994 |
| The Third District's gamble on Blute pays off |
The Boston Globe |
October 25, 1994 |
| A sleepwalk for Weld |
The Boston Globe |
October 19, 1994 |
| Pro-grad-tax crowd play a cynical, greedy game |
The Boston Globe |
September 29, 1994 |
| Bulger 'mafia' spurs Keating turnaround |
The Boston Globe |
September 20, 1994 |
| Why I'm voting for Bachrach; or, adventures on the Democratic ballot |
The Boston Globe |
September 15, 1994 |
| Harping on Romney's religion |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 1994 |
| At stake in Question 9: fairness for property owners |
The Boston Globe |
September 8, 1994 |
| Unbuckling the voters |
The Boston Globe |
August 25, 1994 |
| A roll call for murderers |
The Boston Globe |
August 2, 1994 |
| Raze the old Registry |
The Boston Globe |
July 14, 1994 |
| Lessons for Romney in Kennedy's success |
The Boston Globe |
July 12, 1994 |
| Speaking of the smell test, Governor Dukakis . . . |
The Boston Globe |
June 7, 1994 |
| Want to win? Don't get the convention endorsement |
The Boston Globe |
May 12, 1994 |
| In Brookline, a gang that can't count straight |
The Boston Globe |
May 3, 1994 |
| Defeating the Blob that runs the public schools |
The Boston Globe |
April 28, 1994 |
| Getting Barrett's drift |
The Boston Globe |
April 19, 1994 |
| Will the real Bill Weld please stand up? |
The Boston Globe |
April 12, 1994 |
| A great day for the Irish, but not for Flynn |
The Boston Globe |
March 17, 1994 |
| From Foxboro, foul play on the taxpayers |
The Boston Globe |
March 3, 1994 |
| The rules according to Silber |
The Boston Herald |
March 14, 1992 |
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