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Bierman currently covers government and politics. Before that, he covered transportation. He has also reported on higher education, crime, politics, and local government for the Miami Herald.
Broken City
Republican legislators are aggressively questioning Gina McCarthy, a career regulator who served four Republican governors in Massachusetts.
Members of the state’s congressional delegation plan to gather at Legal Sea Foods in Washington on Wednesday evening to raise money for Boston Marathon bombing victims.
Jim Koch, the founder of Samuel Adams beer, is trying to persuade Congress to grant an excise tax break for his brewery, and others much smaller.
Republican senators staged a surprise boycott of a committee meeting and stalled the confirmation of President Obama’s nominee, Mass. native Gina McCarthy.