Healey to run for re-election as attorney general, not run for governor

By adamg - 2/16/17 - 10:18 am

The Globe reports.

For-profit schools say they have the right to contact prospective students as many times as they want, so they sue Martha Coakley

By adamg - 9/26/14 - 9:20 pm

A trade association of for-profit career schools in Massachusetts is suing Attorney General Martha Coakley, saying her attempts to regulate them violate their First Amendment rights and federal regulations and are a just a confusing mish-mash of nonsens

AG candidates would seek to require fingerprint scanners in new guns sold in Massachusetts

By adamg - 8/22/14 - 9:12 am

WBUR reports on a gun-control debate between Democratic attorney-general candidates Warren Tolman and Maura Healey. Tolman would require fingerprint authentication for new guns, which he called the unsafest product for sale today; Healey says she's down with that, too, but wants to focus on broader crime issues.

Campaign roundup: Bill Galvin has an intense fear of public speaking

By adamg - 10/27/10 - 8:17 am

That's one possible explanation for why the Prince of Darkness refuses to debate his opponents.

Campaign roundup: Mother of Louise Woodward's victim to endorse Coakley

By adamg - 10/12/10 - 8:51 am

Debbie Eappen, whose son Matthew died at the hands of au pair Louise Woodward back in 1997, will join with DAs Dan Conley (Suffolk) and Gerry Leone (Middlesex) to endorse Martha Coakley for

The Tea Party has a candidate for attorney general

By adamg - 7/24/10 - 1:37 pm

He's Guy Carbone, former commissioner of the MDC (remember that?), big fan of Arizona and a gun-owning opponent of nationa

Martha Coakley could have Republican opponent after all

By adamg - 7/20/10 - 3:59 pm

The Worcester Telegram reports James McKenna, a Millbury lawyer, is talking to Republican officials about running a write-in campaign in the September primaries so he can get on

Martha Coakley can rest up from January

By adamg - 4/18/10 - 11:48 am

She won't have a Republican opponent this fall.

We'll have Jack E. Robinson to kick around again

By adamg - 3/12/10 - 3:39 pm

MassBeacon.com reports everybody's favorite perennial candidate has decided to run for something this year, after all: Attorney general.

Coakley sets out agenda if re-elected

By adamg - 2/14/10 - 1:39 pm

Richard Howe reports on yesterday's Lowell Democratic caucus, which included a visit from Attorney General Martha Coakley, who addressed the blue throng.

Poor Martha Coakley: Even the governor is ignoring her, at least on health-care costs

By adamg - 2/11/10 - 9:45 am

Paul Levy, CEO at Beth Israel Deaconess (and, yes, a Charlie Baker backer), explains why Deval Patrick's attempt to regulate health-insurance premiums will fail because

Maybe Charlie Baker didn't want him reading about insurers paying too much

By adamg - 1/29/10 - 9:09 am

The Outraged Liberal got outraged this morning trying to read

Norfolk County DA to run for attorney general if Martha Coakley heads to Washington

By adamg - 1/9/10 - 1:29 pm

Bill Keating sent out a fundraising pitch and has a campaign Web site, Josh Dawson reports.

Appeals court throws out another conviction, based on Supreme Court case Coakley argued and lost

By adamg - 12/8/09 - 11:16 am

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today overturned a Roxbury man's conviction for crack trafficking because prosecutors relied on a certificate that the substance found in his apartment was a large amount of crack, rather than producing an expert who coul