Article snippet: The former Massachusetts governor and Utah senator-elect chastised the president in an op-ed for The Washington Post. Here are five faces to watch come Jan. 2, when they’re sworn in for the first time as state legislators. Paul Brodeur is thinking about running in 2019. While he would not need to formally declare his intention to run until May, Brodeur said the political reality is that he will probably have to make up his mind sooner. Jeri Robinson has been reappointed to the Boston School Committee, and she will be joined by a new member, Quoc Tran, the mayor’s office announced Monday. The Senate minority leader says he’ll seek additional measures in the wake of the Sept. 13 disaster in the Merrimack Valley. Elizabeth Warren met with reporters outside her Cambridge home after announcing that she had taken the expected step of forming an exploratory committee. Here are five faces to watch come Jan. 2, when they’re sworn in for the first time as state legislators. When officials at the University of Utah invited Joe Biden to speak there in December, Biden’s representatives listed a number of requirements for the appearance. The pay bumps will be the first for the governor’s nine cabinet secretaries since he took office in 2015. It will push their salaries from $161,500 to $170,400 a year. Officials said the impact of the shutdown will eventually become more obvious at state agencies that receive federal grant funding. <?EM-dummyTex... Link to the full article to read more