Entries in The Scrum by Mike Deehan

During last night's 11th-hour debate on a measure to reform the state's public records laws to increase transparency, the House's Democratic majority voted down a motion to increase its own transparency. The vote wasn't a surprise inside the halls of the State House, but it may have ramifications next year if a powerful conservative nonprofit group has anything to say about it.

One of Beacon Hill's biggest power players was left out of the BBJ's "Power 50" list.