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By MERCY LINGLE

NORTHAMPTON — The Western Massachusetts Policy Center could have been called the “Eastern Massachusetts Policy Center,” or even the “Washington D.C. Policy Center,” but founder and CEO Lauren Rollins chose western Massachusetts as a base location for...

LAURA WASHINGTON

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee. Anxious Democrats are taking note.The longtime environmental lawyer is the son and namesake of Robert F. Kennedy Sr., a former U.S. attorney general who was assassinated...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — With the city at what many would consider a political and cultural crossroads, members of the Progressive Blueprint for Greenfield, an independent advocacy group, took to the Greenfield Common on Saturday to communicate their mission to...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

The Supreme Court decision Thursday banning the use of affirmative action in college admissions drew condemnation from education leaders, politicians, and others across the Pioneer Valley and state.In statement after statement released shortly after...

By AOIFE MOORE

DUBLIN — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday was welcomed as a “hero and a trailblazer” to Ireland, on her first foreign trip in her new role.An emotional Healey addressed the Irish Senate, almost exactly 60 years to the day since President...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

HOLYOKE — Speaking to a small crowd of supporters, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren lambasted the U.S. Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade last year, saying the court had been taken over by “extremists” who threatened to curtail further liberties...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Calling the Republican Party “a joke” and referring to its MAGA faction as “wingnuts,” an exasperated U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern took to the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday night to accuse Speaker Kevin McCarthy of losing control of the...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

LEVERETT — One of the people in the first delegation from Letcher County, Kentucky to come to Leverett to share her worldviews, Gwen Johnson, found the Hands Across the Hills project to be a successful way to bridge the country’s political divide and...

By DOMENIC POLI, MAX BOWEN and ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

Video recordings and photos are prohibited inside the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Miami, but that’s done nothing to quell public discourse around Donald Trump becoming the first former U.S. president to face federal criminal...

By MARY BYRNE

GREENFIELD — A race is shaping up for the corner office at City Hall after Mayor Roxann Wedegartner announced her candidacy for reelection on Monday in a bid to make up for the time the COVID-19 pandemic “robbed” from her first term.Running for a...

By BOB FLAHERTY

AMHERST — It’s fitting that those who knew John Olver and worked with him during his 40 years of public service would gather to honor the late congressman’s memory at a place named for him — the John W. Olver Design Center at the University of...

By DOMENIC POLI

A Manhattan grand jury voted last week to indict former President Donald Trump on 34 counts of business fraud and, much like those of the Mueller special counsel investigation into election interference or the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol,...

By BELLA LEVAVI

TURNERS FALLS — Constituents had the opportunity to pick the brains of their local legislators on Saturday during a coffee social organized by the League of Women Voters of Franklin County.State Sen. Jo Comerford, D-Northampton, state Rep. Susannah...

By MAX BOWEN

ATHOL — Louis Marino, a lifelong Republican turned Libertarian, is hoping to unseat U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the next election.Marino, of Athol, announced his candidacy at the Unified Libertarians of Massachusetts convention earlier this month....

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — Educational issues pertaining to schools across western Massachusetts — including transportation, rural inequities and a lack of sufficient state aid — peppered the discussion of a Joint Ways and Means Committee hearing at the University of...

By SYDNEY KO

Western Massachusetts will have ample representation on a new legislative committee focused on agriculture.Sens. Anne Gobi, D-Spencer, and Jo Comerford, D-Northampton, were named Senate chair and vice chair, respectively, of the new Agriculture...

By SCOTT MERZBACHand BELLA LEVAVI

AMHERST — John Olver of Amherst, who served as a U.S. congressman for 22 years and was for more than 40 years on the local and national political stage, died Thursday, leaving a legacy of progressive advocacy and achievements that continues to benefit...

By GREG VINE

Speaking in response to news that U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will need to take “extraordinary measures” to prevent a default on the nation’s debt should lawmakers fail to increase or suspend the federal debt ceiling, U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — Two years after the events of Jan. 6, 2021, when supporters of former President Donald Trump forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, the views of what happened that day remain firmly entrenched along partisan lines, according to a new...

By DOMENIC POLI

The region’s state legislators are getting acclimated to their newly redrawn districts but say their day-to-day lives won’t change much, as they were elected to represent the people, regardless of political affiliation, and who share similar...