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Bitcoin can be confusing. Really confusing. It’s also not widely used and extremely volatile, which makes those who want to invest in the digital currency […]

Lobbyists registered with the state of Massachusetts give a lot of money to politicians, but usually focus their funds on the statehouse lawmakers who they […]

There are well over 100 active federal political action committees (PACs) based in Massachusetts, but what we look at this week are the 31 directly […]

Steve Grossman did a little boasting to the press this week, announcing that his campaign account balance has topped a million dollars. That war chest […]

Massachusetts-registered Political Action Committees (PACs) spent close to $7 million in 2013—more than the total PAC expenditures from the entire 2011-’12 election cycle—according to my […]

Warren Tolman, who has long called public campaign financing a top priority and who sponsored clean-election bills as a state senator, declined to commit to […]

Incumbent Massachusetts lawmakers had nearly $9 million, collectively, in their campaign accounts at the end of 2013, according to year-end finance reports. But much of […]

This past year has seen huge, epic, game-changing upheavals in Massachusetts politics, but surely none more consequential than the June opening of Carrie Nation on […]

For the three-month period of September through November, Republican Charlie Baker and Democrat Steve Grossman are leading the way in fundraising for the 2014 Massachusetts […]

There are few issues that elicit more hand-wringing among progressives than campaign financing, especially in the past few years since the Supreme Court widened the […]

UPDATE 3: Both John Connolly and Marty Walsh call on all outside independent expenditure committees spending in support of their campaigns to disclose identities of […]

Last week, a woman named Jocelyn Hutt, of Roslindale, filled out some paperwork with the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF), and just […]

John Connolly’s campaign is claiming to have raised $610,000 in the first half of October—a mighty haul that seems to have taken Marty Walsh’s campaign […]

Back in February, I wrote that “those assessing the [potential 5th District congressional] race expect candidates to need between $1 million and $2 million for […]

Polls and insider opinion suggest that city councilor John Connolly and state representative Marty Walsh are the frontrunners in the Boston mayoral contest, with District […]