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--The Massachusetts House voted overwhelmingly in favor of preliminary approval to pour $1 billion into life sciences investment over 10 years. [WBZ Radio]

The Joint Committee on Transportation has approved a bill that bans the use of using a handheld gadget while driving, and the Massachusetts House of Representatives will vote on the bill next, the Globe reports.

Today, some Massachusetts residents will be voting on a replacement for State Senator Jarrett Barrios, who left the Senate to make some bucks working for Blue Cross. The following candidates for his position are all Democrats: Timothy Flaherty - Former assistant DA and son of Charlie Flaherty, who used to be speaker of the Massachusetts House. Definitely has the most badass campaign photo. Also has the most endorsements (Globe, Cambridge Chronicle, Blue Mass Group). Anthony...

Oh, how quickly we forget. Thomas Finneran was all the rage 18 months ago. The subject of literal rage. After being speaker of the Massachusetts House for 8 years and a member for 18 years before that he was caught up in all sorts of political scandal. It wasn't the middle of the road politics or opposition to the same sex marriages that had been declared legal by the SJC, but his involvement in a redistricting scandal that forced him to leave his powerful post in Massachusetts politics and start dealing with the legal actions being taken against him. The Globe is reporting breaking news that the legal actions might be over. Finneran is set to plead out to Obstruction of Justice charges on Friday in exchange for the prosecutors taking the charges of perjury off the table. The agreement is said to involve a fine and a period of unsupervised probation. He'll also be barred from seeking political office for five years. It's an unsurprising punishment for a politician's illegal action.

Not to raise an alarm before one is necessary, but a small news item appeared tonight on the WCVB 5 website that might have a huge impact on our public television station. Here's most of the text of the article: Live coverage of the Massachusetts House of Representatives is leaving the television airwaves and heading to the Internet.... The move is expected to save about $300,000 over the next two years that would have been...