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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS.
MARKEY STAFFS UP — Mara Dolan is joining Sen. Ed Markey's re-election effort as senior communications adviser. The hire is Markey's latest move to build out his 2020 Senate campaign, as Rep. Joe Kennedy III considers running against him. In late August, Markey brought former state party chair John Walsh onto his campaign.
Dolan is a well-known Massachusetts operative. She has served as communications director to former state Senate President Stan Rosenberg, and worked on Bob Massie's campaign for governor. Dolan also worked for Secretary of State Bill Galvin's 2018 re-election campaign, when he faced a primary challenge from Boston City Councilor Josh Zakim. More recently, Dolan launched Left of Center, a women-run super PAC focused on holding a Democratic majority in the House. She's also an analyst and commentator on television and radio.
Kennedy has also been staffing up as he eyes a Senate bid. Kennedy offered a job to political operative Rich Thuma last week, a move that showed he is building a campaign in waiting as he considers getting in the race. Thuma last worked on Montana Gov. Steve Bullock's presidential campaign in New Hampshire, and had previously worked for both Markey and Kennedy. If Kennedy takes the plunge, he'll be in a four-way contest against Markey and already-announced candidates Steve Pemberton and Shannon Liss-Riordan.
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TODAY — Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito chairs a meeting of the Governor's Council. Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu recognizes youth activists from Climate Strike Boston and the Sunrise Movement at a council meeting. Attorney General Maura Healey speaks at a Chelsea Chamber of Commerce breakfast. State Sen. Marc Pacheco hosts a Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Day at the State House. Rep. Bill Keating is among the lawmakers holding a hearing titled "Voices Leading the Next Generation on the Global Climate Crisis" in Washington, D.C.
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 | DATELINE BEACON HILL |
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- "Some on Governor's Council 'troubled' by Baker-Polito patronage appointments," by Mary Markos, Boston Herald: "Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito is brushing off criticism of her close associates landing high-salary court jobs, saying the patronage pipeline is time-honored business as usual on Beacon Hill — even as some members of the Governor's Council say they're "troubled" by what's going on the board Polito chairs. "It stinks to high heaven," Councilor Robert Jubinville told the Herald. "I am troubled with what I see and what I've seen, but I'm only one vote." Two out of three recent clerk-magistrate candidates with close personal ties to Polito landed a lifetime appointment to the over $152,000-a-year posts ."
- "Lawmakers renew push for cameras on school buses," by Christian M. Wade, The Salem News: "Lawmakers want to help catch motorists who illegally pass stopped school buses by installing cameras to record the violations. On Tuesday, several proposals were heard by the Legislature's Committee on Transportation that would allow cameras to be mounted on the extended stop-sign arms of school buses to record license plates of traffic in both directions. Video images would be given to local police to assess whether a moving violation took place."
- "FED UP DRIVING SAFETY BILL SUPPORTERS TO MEET WITH SPILKA," by Chris Lisinski, State House News Service: "Supporters of long-sought driving safety legislation are trying to increase the pressure on lawmakers as the widely popular bill remains stalled in private negotiations. Families who lost loved ones to distracted-driving crashes plan to meet with Senate President Karen Spilka on Wednesday, where they will press for information on why the legislation passed by both branches remains in conference committee limbo, according to Emily Stein, president of the Safe Roads Alliance. If no resolution comes soon, advocacy groups will hold a press conference on Sept. 26 to highlight the toll from a gap in state law that allows widespread use of electronic devices behind the wheel to continue."
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| WHAT CITY HALL IS READING |
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- "Boston City Council race reflects an evolving Boston," by Adrian Walker, Boston Globe: "Can the Boston City Council save Boston politics? Not long ago, that would have been a tongue-in-cheek question. But if you want to see how much this city is changing, and where it's going, the City Council races are a perfect place to take the pulse. Over the past decade, the council has steadily become more progressive and more inclusive than at any time in its recent history. That process figures to only accelerate after this year's races are decided."
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| FROM THE HUB |
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- "The Hub: An impressive front door to Garden, N. Station," by Andy Metzger, CommonWealth Magazine: "NOT LONG AGO, attending a game at TD Garden or taking a train out of North Station meant you would need to come and go through a nondescript side door. There was no real front entrance, and little besides the sheer size of the two facilities to distinguish the sports arena and transit center from their surroundings. "It was very plain," said Joe Aiello, northeast field coordinator for the Rail Passenger Association. "Here's a big concrete wall. Here's a walkway. Just go and get on your train. There was nothing pleasing about it. It felt very sterile." No longer. There are big changes afoot at North Station."
- "Boston City Council President Calls For City Inspector General To Be Created After Corruption Scandals," by Arjun Singh, WGBH News: "In the wake of two corruption scandals in Boston's City Hall, City Council President Andrea Campbell wants the city to create an office for an independent inspector general. Campbell envisions the inspector general as an office independent from both the mayor and the city council that investigates issues ranging from corruption to mismanagement and waste in the city budget. "I want someone who is locally based who is not reactive, but who is proactive at looking at complaints related to waste, mismanagement corruption, you name it," Campbell said during an interview with Boston Public Radio on Tuesday."
- "Oops: Joe Biden references the 'Rite Aid' strike in Boston (it was Stop & Shop)" by Jaclyn Reiss, Boston Globe: "Chalk up another gaffe for Joe Biden. The former vice president was speaking at an event held by the AFL-CIO in Philadelphia on Tuesday when he decided to refer to the time in April when he rallied with striking Stop & Shop workers in Boston. The thing is, he didn't quite get the details right, calling it a "Rite Aid strike." "When I went up to the Rite Aid strike, I looked out in that parking lot when I was talking with the folks when I was walking the picket line, up in Boston — and what happened? I looked out there, and I'll bet you 40 percent of the people there were non-union," Biden said during the Tuesday event, according to a clip posted online."
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- "Ed Markey could get a boost from young climate change activists in a primary against Joe Kennedy," by Jazmine Ulloa, Boston Globe: "Senator Ed Markey stood in front of the US Capitol on Tuesday surrounded by about 20 climate change activists young enough to be on a school field trip but who are energizing a movement that potentially holds the key to his reelection. Kallan Benson, 15, from Maryland, said she was terrified of what could happen if legislators don't take action to reverse global warming. Nadia Nazar, 17, of Baltimore, compared the destruction caused by mass flooding in her family's home in India to that of hurricanes increasingly devastating the East Coast."
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- "Derailed: My Public Transit Odyssey across Massachusetts," by Miles Howard, Boston Magazine: "It's 6:30 a.m., and I'm standing beside a bus shelter in the parking lot of the North Adams Walmart Supercenter with an envelope filled with $1 bills and quarters. The late-summer day isn't sweltering yet, but when I look up and see thunderheads, I hope I won't be here long. I'm waiting for a bus operated by the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA)—one of the 16 regional transit authorities scattered across Massachusetts—which will take me south on Route 8 to Pittsfield on my way to Amherst tonight."
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| THE OPINION PAGES |
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- "America desperately needs a fresh crop of leaders. Here's where to find them," by Michelle Nunn and David Gergen, CNN: "As a sense of mounting crises spreads and the 2020 election heats up, many Americans are asking: where can we find leaders who can guide us through these storms? The answer, we believe, is in the same places where we have found them since the beginnings of the country: among talented young people who have already shown a dedication to serving others outside of politics. There must be a push, then, to recruit these committed public servants into politics at all levels and to prepare them for the rigors of elected leadership."
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| ON THE STUMP |
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- "O'Connell has a leg up in Taunton race," by Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine: "REPUBLICAN REP. SHAUNNA O'CONNELL always seems to be one step ahead in the race to succeed Thomas Hoye Jr. as mayor of Taunton. Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito in January broached the idea of Hoye leaving the mayor's post to become the interim register of probate in Bristol County. But the appointment wasn't officially announced until August 5, one day before nomination papers were due in the mayor's race. O'Connell, given a heads-up by the Baker-Polito administration before the announcement, was ready. The Taunton rep announced her candidacy for mayor within an hour of the announcement and even sent out a robocall to voters. Other candidates for mayor, who had no inkling the popular Hoye was stepping down, had to scramble to get their nomination papers in on time."
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| WARREN REPORT |
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- "Poll: Biden and Warren on the rise, while Harris plummets among 2020 field," by Caitlin Oprysko, POLITICO: "Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren made steady climbs after last week's Democratic presidential debate, while Sen. Kamala Harris has plummeted since her breakout performance in the first debate this summer, according to a poll out Tuesday. The national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll of Democratic primary voters found that while Biden maintains a lead, climbing 5 percentage points in the past two months, Warren has also been on the rise, posting a 6-point gain since July. But Biden (31 percent) still has a 6-point lead on Warren (25 percent), with Sen. Bernie Sanders rising 1 point to 14 percent in the poll."
- "'The lines keep getting longer': Crowd size takes center stage in 2020 race as Warren event rivals Trump," by Ashley Parker and Annie Linskey, The Washington Post: "The battle began on the first full day of Donald Trump's presidency, when the newly elected president instructed his minions to publicly exaggerate the size of his inauguration crowds. The fight raged on as Trump continued to obsess and fret over crowd size — boasting, touting and sometimes inflating his own adoring masses at campaign rallies and presidential events. Then finally this week, the Democrats — who have long tried to ignore Trump's bigger-is-better ethos — offered a tangible response of their own in the form of Elizabeth Warren's Monday evening rally in New York City's Washington Square Park, where the senator from Massachusetts showed that she, too, could match the spectacle of Trump, right down to the large cheering throngs."
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- "Lobster industry pinched by tariffs," by Christian M. Wade, Gloucester Daily Times: "The trade war with China is putting the squeeze on the state's lobster industry, and the damage is seeping into other sectors of the seafood economy, lawmakers were told Tuesday. China has imposed 35% tariffs on U.S. lobsters — and many other food products — over the past year amid rising trade hostilities with the United States. As a result, U.S. lobster exports to China have fallen off a cliff, dropping by 80% since its retaliatory tariffs went into effect."
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| ABOVE THE FOLD |
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— Herald: "ALL THAT YAZ," — Globe: "Netanyahu appears to stumble in election," "For homeless and South End residents, police raids have been no solution." |
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- "Why young people are striking Friday: 'I won't go to school and act like everything is normal,'" by Greta Jochem, Daily Hampshire Gazette: "On Friday, many students will skip school for a trip to Boston — but it's not for fun. The students, along with many adults, will attend the youth-led Boston Climate Strike to demand action on climate change. The strike includes a rally at City Hall plaza and a march to the Statehouse. Similar events are planned all around the world for Friday. Jordan Winsor, co-coordinator of Sunrise Movement Northampton, estimates there will be 500 people from western Massachusetts, most of them young, making the trek to the state capital."
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| THE LOCAL ANGLE |
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- "Trahan calls Pelosi's ability to unite party 'masterful,'" by Emma Murphy, The Lowell Sun: "As speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi has a hard job and is not given proper credit, according to 3rd District Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass. On Monday, Trahan sat down the Sun editors and reporters for an editorial board meeting which covered many topics, including calls for President Donald Trump's impeachment, efforts to clean the Merrimack River and Pelosi's position in the party. Trahan is about 10 months into her two-year term representing the 3rd Congressional District of Massachusetts. The district stretches from Gardner in the west to Haverhill in the east."
- "Coogan, Correia to face off in November," Herald News: "The mayoral election in November will see incumbent Mayor Jasiel Correia facing off against School Committee member Paul Coogan, with Coogan garnering the most votes in Fall River's preliminary election on Tuesday. The city's 2019 preliminary election was between Correia, Coogan and Erica Scott-Pacheco, with the top two vote-getters to face off on Nov. 5. On Tuesday night, with all of the city's 29 precincts reporting, Coogan had a significant lead, with 8,273 votes. Correia came in second with 2,777 votes, with Scott-Pacheco at a very near third with 2,171 votes."
- "Sullivan tops ticket, Pereira in second, in Brockton preliminary election," by Marc Larocque, Brockton Enterprise: "Brockton voters sided with one of the older, more experienced candidates for mayor, and one of the younger candidates trying to bring a fresh new perspective to City Hall, as they voted for the two finalists who will appear on the ballot during the decisive Nov. 5 election. Councilor At-large Robert Sullivan, who has served on City Council since 2006, took in the most votes for mayor of Brockton in Tuesday's preliminary vote, beating out six other candidates running for the city's top leadership position. Sullivan, 49, who works as an attorney, took in 37.8 percent of the vote, with 5,071 ballots cast in his favor."
FOR YOUR RADAR - Reps. Seth Moulton, Bill Keating, Stephen Lynch and Lori Trahan were appointed to serve on the conference committee for the fiscal 2020 National Defense Authorization Act.
MAZEL! to Scott Conway, who was named to the Boston Irish Business Association Board of Directors.
FOR YOUR COMMUTE: Is Fare Fair? On this week's Horse Race podcast, Steve Koczela and Jennifer Smith talk about new polling in the potential primary match-up between Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy III. MassINC Research Director Ben Forman talks about a new fare equity study in Massachusetts, and state Sen. Becca Rausch explains her "Community Immunity Act." Subscribe and listen on iTunes and Sound Cloud.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to former Rep. John Tierney, Daily Hampshire Gazette alum Emily Cutts, Liberty Square Group's Blue Lab Manager Jen Migliore, New Boston Ventures Director of Operations Kathryn Burton, and Mark Walsh.
DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? No! The Giants beat the Red Sox 7-6.
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There's a public health crisis spreading across the country - and it's small enough to fit in your kid's pocket.
E-cigarettes are hooking a new generation, thanks to Big Tobacco tricks like slick marketing, massive doses of nicotine, and thousands of kid-friendly flavors. Now, 5 million kids - including 1 in 4 high schoolers - use e-cigarettes. This growing public health emergency threatens decades of progress in lowering youth tobacco use. And it's getting worse.
We're building a nationwide movement to confront this crisis with the bold action our kids deserve. We must take flavored e-cigarettes off the market, stand up to companies like JUUL, and stop this escalating epidemic before it's too late. Learn More. |
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