Deval Patrick News

The city's budget is so far in the red that state intervention and multimillion dollar emergency loans are needed immediately, according to local officials interviewed last week.

YOU'RE A sensible, principled conservative. You want America to be a land of boundless opportunity and freedom, where people are treated as individuals and judged on their merits.

The Patrick administration has drawn concessions, including furloughs and a delay in a previously negotiated wage increase, from leaders of four unions representing 30,000 state employees.

Jeff Santos is on an ambitious mission: For the past year, he has been building Boston's only progressive radio talk show station.

There wasn't some of the blatant stupidity that has marked some legislative sessions -- like the infamous 200 House "Toga" party.

Three members of the state's congressional delegation back the idea of a UMass law school.

Gov. Deval Patrick urged the Massachusetts Legislature on Wednesday to suspend its rules and stay in session as long as needed to pass an education-overhaul bill, but the House speaker balked.

Gov. Deval Patrick threw his support yesterday behind a report calling for in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities to be extended to undocumented immigrants.

The state Senate plans to vote today on wide-ranging criminal justice legislation that would make it easier for inmates to get jobs after their release from prison, a change that Deval Patrick promoted during his campaign for governor.

Immigration activists say they are hopeful that Gov. Deval Patrick will support proposals in an advisory report calling for more English classes for the state's immigrants and in-state tuition for undocumented college students.

Governor Deval Patrick today will unveil a state-commissioned report that urges him to push for driver's licenses and in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, as well as English classes for foreign-born Massachusetts residents who need them.

"I feel like I have every bit as much right to run for the top job as he does." -- Timothy P. Cahill, State treasurer State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, who is mounting an independent candidacy for governor, said yesterday that he had rejected entreaties from supporters of Republican rival Charles D. Baker to quit the race and serve as Baker's ...

When pastor Brandon T. Crowley talked politics during Sunday services after the local elections earlier this month at Myrtle Baptist Church, the congregation erupted in shouts of "hallelujah'' and exultant clapping as members of this predominantly African-American congregation considered their unusual political lineup: a newly elected black mayor, ...

It seemed like a given that Mario Rodas would go to college. The Guatemalan-born student certainly had the academic credentials, going from English as a second language classes to taking advanced placement exams for college credit his senior year at Chelsea High School.

Gov. Deval Patrick is set to release a report from a panel charged with making recommendations to him about a new state immigration policy.

Of all the candidates vying for the State House's corner office next year, there's one gubernatorial candidate who, if elected, would be standing up for the average Joe.

Study: 7 million Massachusetts residents flock to Connecticut casinos Nov. 11--BOSTON -- As state lawmakers heard arguments for and against expanding gaming in Massachusetts, two related issues intersected the debate: Gov.

Gov. Deval Patrick says the importance of Veterans Day was driven home to him when he saw a young girl say "Hello Daddy" to her Marine father as he stood at attention while serving as a pallbearer at a funeral last week.

A convicted domestic terrorist whose scheduled speech at the University of Massachusetts was canceled has been reinvited to campus by a faculty group against the objections of school administration.

According to my extensive research -- OK, scrolling through Wikipedia, mostly -- I believe this would be the first time that has happened ever , in the 200+ years of the party .