Heartbreak on Beacon Hill
This is the hardest blog I’ve had to write this session. I believe an honest accounting of our work for the 2023-2024 legislative session must include an accounting of bills […]
Equal opportunity to testify
Written by Jared Freedman, Chief of Staff When Jo talks to groups of constituents or advocates, she always says “people power is what makes government work,” and “people most affected […]
Statement by Sen. Jo Comerford in response to The Boston Globe editorial, Put the Brakes on the Prison Moratorium, July 21, 2022
The Boston Globe has taken a position against a five-year moratorium on the construction of new jails and prisons. Here are five reasons why The Globe is wrong. First, and […]
Can’t stop. Won’t stop. Ever.
Greetings from your State House, Devastated. Furious. Grieving. We all expected the Supreme Court to end the right to abortion, but reading that decision – on top of the Court’s […]
Our greatest super power
Greetings, This week, the Massachusetts Senate passed a sweeping voting rights bill to expand access to our most important super power: our right to vote. S.2545, An Act fostering voter […]
