Don Berwick

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Is the Conventional Wisdom About the Convention Crumbling?

We are about halfway between the end of the Democratic party caucuses and the June 14 state convention, so I’ve been checking in with people […]

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Politicians Predict the Red Sox Season

  With the thrill of baseball back upon us, I asked local pols via Twitter for their predictions of the number of games the team […]

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What the Massachusetts Governor Candidates Are Spending Their Money On

It’s early in the campaign, but where the state’s 10 gubernatorial candidates are sinking their dough speaks volumes about their prospects in the election.

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Eight Things You Should Know About the Massachusetts Democratic Caucuses

Notwithstanding the fine but late-acting hamlets of Auburn, Bolton, Groveland, and Royalston, Massachusetts Democrats have wrapped up their caucuses. Predictably, nobody agrees on what happened. […]

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Jamie Eldridge Is Going to Endorse Don Berwick for Governor

State senator Jamie Eldridge will endorse Don Berwick for governor on Friday, joining fellow progressive leader Sonia Chang-Diaz, who endorsed Berwick last month. “I really […]

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Steve Grossman Leads the Wide-Open Democratic Caucuses

Massachusetts Democratic caucuses are good places for local political celebrity-spotting. I dropped in on four of them on Saturday (Quincy, Lynn, Belmont, and Brookline) and […]

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Look Forward to a Crowded Democratic Primary Ballot

On Groundhog Day, my network of more than 100 political insiders saw their shadow and predicted seven more months of campaigning for 13 of the […]

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Gov-o-Meter

Who’s up and down in the race for governor.

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Charlie Baker, Steve Grossman Lead the Gubernatorial Money Race

For the three-month period of September through November, Republican Charlie Baker and Democrat Steve Grossman are leading the way in fundraising for the 2014 Massachusetts […]

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Q&A #6: Dems for Guv—Is It All Coakley?

A few of you are interested in the 2014 gubernatorial race—at least, the Democratic primary side. “Steven Leibowitz” asks: Does the big poll lead Coakley […]

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Coakley Brings Tell-Tale Signs To Democratic Convention

The biggest gubernatorial buzz at Saturday’s Massachusetts Democratic Convention was not about the two newly-declared candidates, state Treasurer Steve Grossman and state senator Dan Wolf; […]

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Wait, So Which Dems Are Announcing Bids for Governor?

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that: “… candidates for governor are invited to speak at the upcoming Democratic State Convention, July 13 in […]