SENATE PRESIDENT STANLEY ROSENBERG said on Tuesday that the problems at the MBTA are straight out of “Democracy in America,” the book Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in the 1800s which suggested that Americans may vote themselves more benefits than they are willing to pay for. “This is de Tocqueville writ large,” Rosenberg said in a […]
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Rosenberg’s open door
THE PALATIAL OFFICE of the Senate president is big enough for the entire Democratic caucus of more than 30 lawmakers to occasionally gather for private sessions amidst its ornate wood molding and picture gallery. And if its walls could talk, they would have plenty to tell about secret strategy sessions where details of bills were […]
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Big Three back tax diversion
THE BIG THREE on Beacon Hill are in agreement that about $200 million in capital gains tax revenue slated for deposit in the state’s rainy day fund should instead be diverted to offset this fiscal year’s $765 million deficit. Both House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Stan Rosenberg said on Monday that they agreed […]
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Rosenberg unveils leadership team
SENATE PRESIDENT STAN Rosenberg announced his leadership team and committee chairmanships today, putting women senators in two of the chamber’s most powerful posts. Sen. Harriette Chandler will serve as majority leader, while Sen. Karen Spilka will chair the budget-writing Senate Ways and Means Committee. Spilka, an Ashland Democrat who served as Senate chair of the […]
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The Rosenberg reign begins
WITH PLENTY OF nods to the past, but also a clear message of change, Stan Rosenberg took the gavel as Senate president on Wednesday. The 65-year-old Amherst Democrat arrives at the Senate’s top post with a liberal profile on issues but a reputation for deliberative policymaking that hears out all sides on issues. In a […]
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President-in-waiting
IF LIFE HAD taken a different turn, Stan Rosenberg might be an Orthodox Jewish rabbi today. That was his ambition while studying for his bar mitzvah in the early 1960s at Temple Israel in Malden. Had he followed that path, his days would be filled leading prayer services, wrestling with complicated questions posed by religious […]