Article snippet: The former Massachusetts governor and Utah senator-elect chastised the president in an op-ed for The Washington Post. Amid the pomp and circumstance of the first day of the Legislature’s 191st session, signs appeared of the challenges Speaker Robert DeLeo will face in the year ahead. The Democrat described President Trump as amoral: ‘‘Amoral is when you shoot someone in the head, it doesn’t make a difference. No conscience.’’ book review Presidential race between Carter and Kennedy foreshadowed a tectonic reshaping for the Democrats. “The club soda of beer,” she joked, as she answered a reporter’s question about the brew she drank on a live Instagram video — a video that has received mixed reactions. Elizabeth Warren met with reporters outside her Cambridge home after announcing that she had taken the expected step of forming an exploratory committee. Beacon’s Hill incoming class of lawmakers has already sent reverberations through the Massachusetts political scene with surprising victories and, in some cases, blunt commentary. 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 sta... Link to the full article to read more