“Massachusetts” on The Daily Caller

Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick’s office will have to wade through thousands of emails in coming weeks to respond to dueling Freedom of Information Act requests from the Romney campaign and the Democratic National Committee. (more)

When Mitt Romney left his Massachusetts governorship to run for president, his staff did everything in their power to prepare him for the race. (more)

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Republican candidates will challenge President Barack Obama on foreign policy, an issue they have given scant attention in recent weeks, in a debate Saturday night. (more)

The topsy-turvy nature of the 2012 race for the Republican nomination suggests that a lack of cash isn’t the kind pf impediment for a candidate that once was. And New York Times columnist David Brooks says that could have left the door open for anyone — including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, had he decided to run. On Friday’s “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS, Brooks said the younger Bush would be up in the polls, despite his family link with former President George W. Bush. (more)

During his time as Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney worked to assure pro-choice groups that he would protect abortion rights and hinted he could help soften the GOP’s stand against the practice, The Washington Post reports. (more)

In what appears to have been a joke, Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren declared last Friday that she would be “going for the hick vote” in 2012. (more)

Massachusetts Democratic Senate contender Elizabeth Warren doubled Republican Sen. Scott Brown’s third-quarter fundraising haul, The Hill reports. (more)

In 2010, he was the tea party poster boy. In 2012, Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown may not get so much as a nod of acknowledgement from tea party groups. (more)

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele told The Daily Caller that it was a “very conservative” decision for 2012 Republican presidential candidate Gov. Rick Perry of Texas to give in-state college tuition rates to illegal immigrant students. (more)

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man with a degree in physics was charged Wednesday with plotting to blow up the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol using remote-controlled airplanes filled with explosives. (more)

When Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick declared this week “car-free week,” he apparently didn’t mean for everybody. (more)

Ron Suskind’s controversial new book, “Confidence Men” reveals how President Barack Obama came to embrace “RomneyCare” as a model of reform. (more)

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard Law professor and consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren officially launched her Democratic campaign for U.S. Senate on Wednesday by greeting commuters at a rail station in Boston before embarking on a tour of the state. (more)

Until last summer, education experts from across the political spectrum regarded Massachusetts as having the nation’s best academic standards and testing for children in kindergarten through 12th grade. But now that the state has adopted national standards and testing, it has become a cautionary tale about the dangers of ceding local control over public education. (more)

You could be forgiven for thinking that President Barack Obama wrote Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s June op-ed in The Washington Post. In the piece, Patrick (Obama?) writes of his consternation over what he calls the “radical right,” which opposes increasing “revenue” to cut the deficit. “Everyone … knows that reducing government spending and addressing revenue shortfalls have to be a part of the plan,” Patrick writes. (more)

Top Democrats in New Hampshire and Massachusetts are ripping former Gov. Mitt Romney’s record on job creation, pointing to a series of disquieting statistics about the Massachusetts economy while Romney was at that state’s helm. (more)

BOSTON (CBS) – There’s a battle rolling onto Boston’s sidewalks pitting pedestrians against tourists on futuristic wheels. (more)

MONSON, Mass. (AP) — The sight of flattened homes, peeled-off roofs and the toppled steeple of a 140-year-old church stunned New Englanders after deadly tornadoes swept through Massachusetts, striking an area of the country that rarely sees such severe twisters. (more)

Mitt Romney plans to announce his candidacy for president June 2 in New Hampshire, a Romney aide confirmed Thursday to The Daily Caller. (more)

BOSTON—Two mayors in Massachusetts want to ban a brownie that contains a sleep aid and features a cartoon character that critics say appeals to children. (more)