It wasn’t quite a Kinsley gaffe, the political blunder that journalist Michael Kinsley once observed happens when “a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”
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Obstacle course for Waymo
The self-driving car industry wants to pave the way for regulation, but could face a long road as testing resumes on Boston streets.
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Hard feelings in City Hall
A divided Boston City Council struggles to get started.
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Floating on ICE
In state of the state, Healey attacks Trump’s enforcement agency — and draws some criticism as well. Plus: Super PAC spending, challengers ahoy in House and Senate races and more in Political Intel.
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Read-ing the tea leaves
DA Morrissey rules out another run, amping up the race to replace him. Plus: Plus: Two trains in the night?
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Ballot question to kill the buzz
Ten years later, here comes a rematch on marijuana legalization. Plus: An epistle on Boston City Council fight and more in Political Intel.
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Karen Read cuts a check
Read and her defense team help DA candidate’s fundraising haul. Plus: Mayor Wu raises more than $1.1 million for inauguration fund.
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And we’re back
Power brokers on Beacon Hill and beyond offer resolutions for a busy new year.
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Stopping the slop
Massachusetts has two takes on AI, personified in its statewide elected officials: Gov. Maura Healey, who embraces the tech, and Attorney General Andrea Campbell, who has a more skeptical lens.
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Lobbying from the pastor
Rev. Miniard Culpepper, who will take a Boston City Council seat in January, had been trying for days to catch up with Sen. Nick Collins and press him on Mayor Michelle Wu’s property tax shift proposal.