Speaker, attorney say accusation unfair

Jurors' perception of Mulligan could be key

Lawyers go after key prosecution witness

Kathleen Petrolati had no college degree for Probation job

Focus shifts from height to ground floor

Witness says he spoke with friends who also testified

Chief justice was concerned about hiring practices

Proposal would double state limit on contributions

Say they are trying to streamline O’Brien case

Senate President helped Mosca land position

Was he aware of the hiring shenanigans?

Lawton drops off flowers after getting the job

Judge in federal trial admonishes both sides to stop trying patronage system

Mohegan Sun, Suffolk Downs profit sharing?

As he ticked off new initiatives, the new mayor of Boston sounded a lot like the old mayor.

For Massachusetts Republicans, it’s an increasingly narrow path to victory. The party’s two best hopes for major office this fall are plotting very different paths to try to get there.

Campaign finance package would impose stricter disclosure regulations

Footprint will probably run its plant less often to comply

Federal trial of Probation Commissioner John J. O’Brien likely to shine unflattering spotlight on the House speaker

SJC will weigh environmental impact of Salem facility

Outside money, lots of it hard to trace, is flooding political races in the US, dramatically altering the campaign playing field. Wendy Kaminer, iconoclastic lawyer, civil libertarian, and political observer, and Liam Kerr, who heads a group that’s part of the spending spree but nonetheless worries about its impact, consider what it’s doing to campaigns and what, if anything, should be done ab

Brayton Point to close in 2017

Jesse Baerkahn is part lawyer, part real estate broker, part urban cheerleader

Environmentalists want to kill off Brayton Point. The Patrick administration says let the market do the dirty work.

Takes 101 of Boston’s 112 majority-minority districts

Outside PACs line up behind Walsh

Walsh hamstrung by the go-along culture in the Legislature