2010: It’s Coakley vs. Brown - MSNBC Firstread
Chris Dodd] than it is for many other incumbents Scott Brown bested a perennial candidate to win the Republican nomination,” the AP writes. Coakley won with 47% of the vote, followed by 28% for Rep. Michael Capuano, 13% for City Year co-founder read more..
A new national poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion shows that two-thirds of Americans believe the “War on Drugs” is a failure. A majority of those polled agreed that marijuana should be legalized. The survey, a nationally representative sample of 1,004 read more..
F RAMINGHAM — State police are heralding the work of a civilian dispatcher who helped track down a Natick man who allegedly kidnapped a Peabody woman before she managed to escape at the Route 30 exit on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Natick. Rick read more..
An astute Fixista flagged a fascinating interview that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gave to conservative talk radio host Lars Larson last Friday in which she appears to leave the door open to a third party bid for president in 2012. Asked by Larson read more..
Since Mitt Romney left the Statehouse to pursue his 2008 presidential campaign, and his one-time running mate Kerry Healey failed to hold the governor’s office after 16 years of GOP control, the Massachusetts Republican Party has further atrophied. read more..
Martha Coakley, who grew up in North Adams, came one step closer to Washington Tuesday night. At a rally in South Hadley last week, she said a young man in a wheelchair gave her a present. “And I didn’t open it until Sunday morning. When I did I read more..
Similar anti-tax promises proved successful for a string of Massachusetts Republican governors throughout the 1990s and into the current decade. But it’s anything for granted,” Coakley said after a unity event with her former Democratic rivals. read more..
The oldest building to earn the Energy Star distinction is Cambridge Savings Bank in Massachusetts, which was constructed Star structure – at 4.5 million square feet, it is larger than the Mall of America. read more..
Attorney General Martha Coakley won Tuesday’s Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat the late Edward Kennedy held for 47 years, dramatically outdistancing a four-way field with nearly half the vote in a low-turnout contest, and heading into a read more..
