Public Affairs

Meet the Candidates: Natalie Blais

Seven candidates sought the Democratic nomination for the 1st Franklin District seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Natalie Blais, who won the Democratic primary race for retiring Rep. Steven Kulik’s seat, joined Carrie Saldo to discuss what it takes...

Meet the Candidates: Jo Comerford

Successful write-in campaigns are rare in politics, but a write-in candidate won in the Democratic Primary for the Hampshire, Franklin, Worcester Senate Seat. Jo Comerford, a former MoveOn.org campaign director, defeated Chelsea Kline, the only candidate actually on...

Meet the Candidates: Lindsay Sabadosa

The 1st Hampshire District House seat has been vacant since February, when State Representative Peter Kocot died of cancer. Two women stepped up to run this fall—Kocot’s longtime district aide Diana Syznal and Lindsay Sabadosa, an activist and advocate. Sabadosa...

Should Faneuil Hall Be Renamed?

Last year, WGBH, WGBY’s sister station in Boston, reported on a Confederate monument hidden away on Georges Island in Boston Harbor. The state subsequently covered up the monument and then moved it into storage, and nobody seemed to mind. But now, a much bigger and...