Labor Day Weekend (also known as Move-In Weekend) in Boston is a great opportunity to stage Ward 4’s annual voter registration drive. Thanks to organizer Andrea Olmstead and our awesome volunteers, we collected more than 100 completed voter registration forms (and handed out plenty more) over the three days. With preliminary elections just a few weeks away, the timing couldn’t have been better!

“Mass. lawmakers have two bosses, heed one (hint: it’s not the voters)”
In his June 8th Letter to Editor (Boston Globe), Ward 4 Vice Chair Jonathan Cohn points to the consequences of over-centralized power in the state legislature. The inertia on Beacon Hill is “worsening…with few bills, few votes, and almost