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WILL HE STAY OR WILL HE GO? What s in store for House Speaker Robert DeLeo s future? That s what everyone wants to know.
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FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: MCGOVERN CALLS FOR HUNGER CZAR Rep. Jim McGovern is calling on President-elect Joe Biden to appoint a hunger czar to address food insecurity in the United States, a problem that s become more widespread during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Worcester Magazine
THEY RE SAYING THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD AGAIN: If anyone thought former Worcester City Councilor and one-time mayor Konstantina Lukes was going to stop lighting political fires in her retirement, they were obviously never really paying attention. Indeed, Lukes eyebrow-raising Dec. 4 editorial in the Telegram & Gazette showed her at her political brawler best. The target? Allowing non-U.S. citizens to sit on volunteer city boards. On Nov. 19 she wrote, “the Citizens Advisory Council, by a unanimous vote of the eight members present, made a dangerous and shortsighted change in their own rules by eliminating the requirement that all recommended appointees to boards and commissions be registered voters.” In true Konnie form, she breezes by the sensible rebuttal – that many legal immigrants live here and pay taxes, thus entitling them to be at least a little involved in their community s civic life – and goes straight for the melodramatic bluster, that “this