Saugus, one of those towns that flipped for Trump, is a greatexampleof a longstanding reality here in Massachusetts. We may be a reliably Democratic state in federal elections, but independents are the dominant voters, and plenty of them, as well as a significant number of Democrats, are to...
“I will never run a campaign against a Fitzpatrick in Bucks County,” said one local Democratic strategist, who asked not to be named while speaking well of his party’s nemesis. The county is rapidly changing. A cluster of towns that form a dividing line between the upper and ...
It covers suburban towns in the New York City commuter belt and rural parts of the state to the west. Altman ran on protecting abortion rights and IVF as well as criticizing Kean’s habit to decline local press interviews and public engagement. Republicans re...
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Displaced farmers migrated to the towns and cities. Even food came to be processed in great factories. Corporations were the main form of organization of the large-scale business that grew during this period. Much of politics of the era consisted of struggles between the wealthy, who owned ...
When we informed a Republican leader that the US Constitution requires seven years of citizenship to serve in Congress, the reply was, "I'll be damned!" Did Clarke conceal this from party officials who tapped him to run against Ed Towns? Given that Clarke teaches political science at Pace ...
CNN: “Massachusetts Rep: DeSantis shipped migrants ‘for his own political benefit’ Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, an advocacy group, said that some immigrants who were sent from Texas to Harris’ residence in Washington have told his team they were...
The cities and towns in Maine have been caught between the increased costs of services and the fixed base of real property taxation. The result has been real property tax levels which have tended to discourage building expansion and imposed hardships on many taxpayers especially those living on fi...
Our towns and our cities, then our counties, then our states, then our regional compacts -- and only then, the national government. That, let me remind you, is the ladder of liberty, built by decentralized power. On it also we must have balance between the branches of government at ever...
Some say that spirit no longer exists. But I've seen it. I've felt it -- all across this land; in the big cities, the small towns and in rural America. It's still there ready to blaze into life if you and I are willing to do what has to be done ...