By adamg - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 12:40pm

Three if you include Medford native Mike Bloomberg, but in any case, the New Hampshire results persuaded Deval Patrick he has no chance of getting the Democratic nomination, so he announced today he's not running for president anymore.

Coupled with Elizabeth Warren's poor showing yesterday, can we assume the Liar in Chief was, again, lying, about the hundreds of buses of Massachusetts residents rolling into New Hampshire to flip elections? Yes, of course we can.

By adamg - Tue, 11/12/2019 - 11:34am

Deval Patrick might stage a Bloombergian late entry into the presidential race, which would bring the number of Massachusetts candidates back up to three - four if you include El Bloombito, who spent his formative years in Medford. Patrick is, of course, upset that none of the roughly 5,000 moderates in the race (remember Seth Moulton?) seem to have put wooden stakes in the Warren and Sanders campaigns yet.

By adamg - Wed, 12/05/2018 - 9:33am

Politico reports Deval Patrick has decided not to run for president in 2020.

By adamg - Mon, 03/09/2015 - 3:57pm

This just in from Hizzonah:

The success of Boston's bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games relies on transparency. I urge Boston 2024 to release the salaries for all staff and consultants as a testament to the transparency and openness of this process

UPDATE: Boston 2024 releases salaries. Davey is making $300,000 a year, Patrick will get $7,500 a day to travel overseas and shmooze IOC members. The Herald has the complete list.

By adamg - Sat, 03/07/2015 - 8:37am

It seemed a bit odd at the time: There, in the back of a community meeting about the Olympics and Franklin Park sat Deval Patrick, smiling, but not saying anything.

The Globe reports this morning that Patrick's former minion and current Boston 2024 CEO Richard Davey has hired the newly retired governor to go on a lot of foreign trips, in a job as "global ambassador" to the International Olympics Committee. In the role, Patrick will journey overseas to shmooze the panjandrums of the IOC on why they should deign to grant Boston their munificence in 2024.

Deval and Diane Patrick
By adamg - Wed, 01/07/2015 - 10:13pm

Gov. Deval Patrick left office this evening in the traditional manner: All by himself, through the normally locked center doors of the State House, down the steps and onto Beacon Street, where he officially became another citizen again - which he celebrated with his wife Diane.

Photo by the governor's office. Posted under this Creative Commons license.

By adamg - Thu, 12/18/2014 - 3:36pm

Props to Jim Braude for asking Obama about those Somerville parking tickets.

More on WGBH.

By adamg - Fri, 07/18/2014 - 9:12pm

For short-term housing, WBUR reports:

"My faith teaches that 'if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him,' but rather 'love him as yourself,' "he said, quoting Scripture, his eyes teary.

Local man's son in the hospital in El Salvador.

By adamg - Tue, 05/13/2014 - 10:49pm

And not just in Boston, but everywhere, the State House News Service reports.

By adamg - Mon, 02/24/2014 - 7:21am

Not ruling out a run, Politico reports.

By adamg - Wed, 09/11/2013 - 9:17am

The State House News Service reports Gov. Patrick has heard software types about how bad Massachusetts looks with a tax on such basic services as setting up Web sites.

By Douglas Bennett - Thu, 05/16/2013 - 1:33pm

A lot of people have speculated that Lt. Governor Tim Murray's gubernatorial ambitions crashed and burned. However, with U.S.

By adamg - Sun, 04/21/2013 - 1:46pm

When it will have been exactly a week since the bombs went off.

By adamg - Thu, 02/07/2013 - 6:14pm

Gov. Patrick's holding off on shutting roads, though.

By adamg - Thu, 01/17/2013 - 8:52am
By adamg - Wed, 01/16/2013 - 6:25am

The Globe reports Gov.

By adamg - Mon, 01/14/2013 - 11:15pm

The Globe reports on a proposal by state officials to spend an extr

By riggssm - Sun, 10/28/2012 - 5:04pm

Maybe Adam blew away. Anyways, here's highlights from the press conference Governor Patrick just gave at MEMA headquarters.