Deval Patrick News

You may have noticed a very patriotic sight in Boston Common starting Wednesday afternoon: thousands of small American flags planted not far from the intersection of Beacon and Charles Street.

Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Tim Murray speaks at an event in Winchendon, Mass, in Jan.

The number of Gateway Cities in Massachusetts would expand by more than a third under a Senate budget proposal scheduled for debate this week.

Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Tim Murray will be resigning Wednesday, according to CBS Boston.

Governor Deval Patrick and First Lady Diane Patrick will be heading to San Francisco soon to meet the newest member of the family - their first grandchild.

Catt Linehan Chaput with mom Mary and state Rep. Gailanne Cariddi. The past City Council candidate plans a career in public service.

University of Massachusetts student trustees are pushing for the Senate to join the House and Gov.

In his recent Ohio State commencement speech, President Obama soothed graduates by telling them not to pay attention to what they may have heard, not to fear government, and to reject the idea that "tyranny is always lurking just around the corner." Was he worried the grads had seen videos of the SWAT enforcers in Boston after the marathon ... (more)

However, now comes the time for the parties involved - the House, the Senate and the governor - to "pick one from column A and two from column B" and decide on a final commonwealth budgetary package of spending and taxes.

THE HOUSE AND SENATE. Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives' votes on one roll call from the week of May 13-17. There were no roll calls in the Senate.

The governor's office announced that their oldest daughter, Sarah Baker Patrick Morgese, gave birth to a son Monday in san Francisco.

Just when you think the news surrounding Obamagate cannot get any worse, it does.

Lt. Gov. Tim Murray will get one vote on the slots casino proposal for Worcester proposed by Rush Gaming out of Chicago if it makes it to the ballot later this year.

Gabriel Gomez is an ambitious guy. In January, with Massachusetts senator John Kerry all but certain to be confirmed as secretary of state, the 47-year-old Gomez wrote a letter to Governor Deval Patrick.

Earlier this month, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick announced that his state reached the goal of 250 megawatts of installed solar energy capacity.

UPDATED: 11 a.m. School Committee releasedits agenda and will vote onthe 2-year lease Monday night Framingham Patch has learned that MassBay Community College and Framingham has agreed, in terms, to a 2-year lease extension for the college to use the former Farley School building on Flagg Drive, next to Fuller Middle School and across from McCarthy ... (more)

Five hours, five floors, "140 clicks" - it's how the Barre Democrat and chairman of the state Senate Ways and Means Committee spent his Friday three weeks ago, sitting in as case workers - sometimes with piles of papers and files around them - plugged away at a Holyoke welfare office.

The birth of the Monomoy Regional High School is tangible now. The foundation is poured, the girders will be arriving soon and the track and synthetic-surface multipurpose field are taking shape.

In light of stronger than anticipated tax collections through April and under pressure from lawmakers, the Patrick administration announced Friday it would restore $20.8 million in spending to the fiscal 2013 budget, including outlays that cover special education costs and reimbursements to cities and towns for regional and homeless student ... (more)

The U.S. Attorney in Boston has given notice in a pending civil case that his office is still actively investigating allegations concerning the drug compounding firm blamed for a nationwide fungal meningitis that has taken the lives of 15 Tennessee patients and sickened 152.