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Massachusetts

In these tense times, Gov. Healey’s out-of-office policy deserves a rethink. Here’s why

MassLive

National

States jockey for top spots in DNC primary shake-up

The Hill

Today on Beacon Hill

12:00pm

Governor's Council Assembly

Governor's Council Chamber, Room 360, State House, Boston
1:00pm

Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Coordinating Council (EVICC) Meeting

Via Zoom

Birthday: Rep. Dawne Shand

Birthday: Rep. Andres Vargas

Birthday: State Senator Joanne Comerford

Quote of the Day

“That a commissioner may be occasionally abrasive, boorish, inconsiderate, ill-tempered, and even unreasonable with colleagues is not, without much more, sufficient grounds for her removal from office ... Shorn of rhetoric and hyperbole, the Treasurer’s Decision attempts to stretch a modest number of unexceptional facts into a Procrustean bed of gross misconduct they simply cannot be made to fit ... The Treasurer’s grounds for misconduct may look like bricks in shape, and edges and surface appearance ... But viewed from any perspective other than the Treasurer’s, these bricks are as thin as playing cards. Resting on walls constructed of same, the Treasurer’s case for gross misconduct against O’Brien turns out to be just that: a house of cards.”
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Robert Gordon
A judge ruled Treasurer Goldberg wrongly fired Cannabis Commission chair Shannon O’Brien, saying rudeness isn’t “gross misconduct” and Goldberg’s case, though dressed up as solid, was really a flimsy house of cards.

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