Lawmakers urged to create opportunities for candidates of color
Matt Murphy
State House News Service
The state s only majority-minority Congressional district, represented by U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, is an area ripe for lawmakers to create more opportunities for candidates of color at the state level, according to officials and advocates who testified Monday in front of legislators in charge of redistricting.
Pressley, who in 2018 became the first Black woman elected to Congress from Massachusetts, urged the Special Committee on Redistricting on Monday to keep as much of her district intact as possible.
Meanwhile, leaders in Randolph, Chelsea and Revere pressed for their communities to be kept whole in House districts on Beacon Hill, rather than carved up. And numerous advocates said Boston should have a Senate district crafted to make it more likely that a Black person can be elected.
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A seemingly technical change in how the state will redraw its political boundaries has ignited a fiery intraparty battle on Beacon Hill, where the state’s top election official is accusing legislative leaders of orchestrating a “power grab.”
âGood news for Massachusettsâ: Population tops 7 million, as state keeps 9 congressional seats after 2020 Census
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated April 26, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Bill Galvin, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth.Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
Massachusettsâ population grew to slightly more than 7 million people last year, a 7.4 percent jump from 2010 and a large enough increase to ensure the state keeps its nine seats in the US House of Representatives for the next decade, federal US Census officials announced Monday.
No New England state lost, or gained, seats in their congressional delegation with the U.S. Census Bureauâs long-awaited release of population figures Monday, showing growth nationwide slowed to its second lowest rate in the countryâs history.
Should DiMasi, and other federal felons, face a ban on lobbying Beacon Hill? The SJC will decide
By Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated April 16, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Former Mass. House speaker Salvatore DiMasi appeared at a prehearing conference in 2019 on his appeal of Secretary of State William Galvin s denial of his application to register as a lobbyist.Jim Davis/Globe Staff
In the summer of 2009, former House speaker Salvatore DiMasiâs federal corruption charges hung like a haze over the State House, driving demand for a package of ethics and lobbying reforms.
More than a decade later, Massachusettsâ highest court will now decide whether that