Campaign

I spent the morning on four family farms in our district. It was a tremendous honor. Thank you to Barstow Family Farm, Next Barn Over, Plainville Farm, and Simple Gifts for opening your farms and [...]

Winning “Improved Medicare For All” in Massachusetts or “Single Payer” and expanding and stretching the Commonwealth’s revenue stream are among my top two campaign priorities. [...]

My entire professional career has been centered around defending the human and economic rights of people in local communities. The clock, these days, is ticking backwards. Anyone watching what’s [...]

Part of what happens in a campaign is that people in local communities lend their endorsement if they believe that you are the candidate who shares their values and who will best serve our [...]

ON REVENUE Each year the budget is a key part of the work of the Massachusetts legislature. If elected State Senator, I’ll help decide how the Commonwealth spends our money and how we raise the [...]

Bob Reich endorsed me for State Senate today. An honor. A high point, for sure. You can read more about it in today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette. Here are four things (among many) that I love [...]

A society should be judged by how we treat our people at the “bookends” of life, as children and as elders. I had the pleasure of meeting with Al Norman this morning. Al has been an [...]

There are local farms and farmers in every city/town in the Hampshire, Franklin, Worcester district, with some of the richest growing soil in the nation. Farming is in this region’s DNA. [...]

Yesterday, Northampton Mayor David Narkewicz, who also serves as the chair of the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority’s (PVTA) advisory board, and I met at a bus stop in Northampton to talk [...]

For a decade, the Center for New Americans has been holding a naturalization ceremony on July 4 in Northampton. Today 58 people from 33 nations became U.S. citizens. Attending this annual event [...]