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Capital - The week in politics and issues

posted onSeptember 1, 2017
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Article snippet: Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories capital source The contentious debate among GOP state committee members about an anti-hate-speech resolution is showing the first sharp divisions in the party’s US Senate primary.  Capital Source A long-standing political grudge could end up being rich subtext in the race to fill the seat that US Representative Niki Tsongas is vacating.   Clinton will return to the first-in-the-nation primary state Dec. 5 to pump her upcoming memoir.   Capital Source Businessman John Kingston made it clear he is serious about running — and putting up $2 million of his own money to prove it.   capital source Massachusetts Republicans lost one this week, but they got the potential to pick up a bigger one.  capital source Republican lawyer Dan Shores will challenge Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey next year, charging that she has made the office too overtly political, he said Thursday.  CAPITAL SOURCE Democratic activists, strategists, and officials say there is an unusual paucity of candidates for the number-two spot of lieutenant governor. Historically, that job has drawn multiple candidates from lower offices. This time, party insiders say, there’s just one so far.   CAPITAL SOURCE The teenagers with the Hyde Square Task Force were the first to discover that TD Garden failed to comply with a 1993 law requiring the arena hold three annual fundraisers. ... Link to the full article to read more

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