Matt Murphy

No days off. It’s a mantra Patriot’s fans have heard coach Bill Belichick repeat many times, and in recent years it holds true for Bay State politics as well. Democrats in Massachusetts scored a resounding victory here on Nov. 8, reclaiming the governor’s office, building on their majority in the Legislature and sweeping statewide and Congressional races on […]

Gov. Charlie Baker has roughly one month left in office, and while he recently said he wasn’t prepared to start talking about what he’s accomplished in eight years, it appears that’s about to change. Baker, who returned to Massachusetts from a week in Ireland on Monday, will be in Quincy this morning at the New Way Peer […]

With the calendar about to turn to December, one of the state’s most prominent pollsters says the postmortem on Attorney General Maura Healey’s resounding win for governor shows how the Democrat benefited from the divisions in the Republican Party. Suffolk University pollster David Paleologos told MASSterList columnist and WBZ political analyst Jon Keller over the weekend that Republican Geoff […]

Traveling for the holiday? You’re not alone. AAA Northeast predicts that 1.3 million Massachusetts residents will travel at least 50 miles from home this Thanksgiving to spend the day with family or friends. That’s up 2.4 percent from a year ago. About 1.2 million of those travelers will be in cars, according to AAA Northeast, with today being the […]

Gov.-elect Maura Healey has had plenty of time to think about how she wants to staff the governor’s office and fill her Cabinet, but the just-elected Democrat is taking her time announcing any final decisions. Despite Healey’s huge polling leads throughout the campaign and the proven-out likelihood that she would cruise to victory, the attorney general’s […]

happy match day. The World Cup is underway in Qatar and the U.S. men’s national team kicks off their campaign at 2 p.m. against Wales. And speaking of campaigns, Gov. Charlie Baker in an interview that aired over the weekend breathed life into the idea that he may not be completely done with politics. Baker jetted off to […]

After a night of condolences online, Twitter still appears to be working for now. So give us a follow at @SHNSMurphy and @MASSterList while you still can. A return to politics without Twitter is a fascinating prospect to think about, and one Gov. Charlie Baker might relish. But for now, the political establishment is moving forward with […]

Gov. Charlie Baker is back from Republican Governors Association meetings in Florida and has a host of speaking engagements on his calendar today, while it’s Gov. elect Maura Healey’s turn to head out of town. Healey will be in Charleston, South Carolina for the National Governors Association’s seminar for new governors, according to her campaign. Baker has engagements […]

It’s been well-established that for Massachusetts to meet its carbon reduction goals it has to find a way to dramatically increase the number of drivers behind the wheel of electric vehicles. Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Beth Card has said that Massachusetts will need to have at least 200,000 passenger electric vehicles on the roads by 2025 and […]

Gov. Charlie Baker, in a rare nationally televised interview aired Monday, said the Republican Party should view the results of last week’s election as a rejection of extremism and a message from voters that it’s time to “move on” from President Donald Trump and embrace a more inclusive message. It’s the second time this month Baker has […]