State Treasurer

State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg has tested positive for COVID-19 and is quarantining at her home, her office announced early Sunday afternoon. The treasurer’s office said that Goldberg “recently learned of potential exposure and was tested” for the coronavirus. The test came back positive and Goldberg is monitoring her symptoms, the office said. “The Treasurer’s office will continue to function...

Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has announced the endorsement of one of Iowa’s last two uncommitted Democratic elected officials, state Treasurer Michael Fitzgerald. “She’s the one I think can address the biggest problems we have, and that is the hollowing out of the middle class,” Fitzgerald said in an interview with The Associated Press. “She’s clear, you understand her message, and...

Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves has won the Republican nomination for governor and will face Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood and two other candidates in November. Reeves defeated former Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Bill Waller Jr. in Tuesday’s primary runoff. Mississippi, Louisiana and Kentucky are the only states electing governors this year. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant is limited to two...

Shortly after announcing he will leave the political arena, Maine Gov. Paul LePage offered his support to Republican candidate Shawn Moody, a businessman who has campaigned on continuing LePage’s policies. Moody, who has built a successful collision center business, campaigned alongside LePage’s wife in the Bangor area. LePage’s daughter, Lauren, is running the Moody campaign.

The Rhode Island Democratic Party is criticizing a Republican candidate for state treasurer who appeared to threaten political opponents in a blog post. In Sunday’s post, Michael Riley said he was angry with comments Robert Walsh, executive director of the teachers’ union, made about pension reforms.

The Vermont GOP met Wednesday night to pick new candidates for the November ballot after one man won six different races in the state Republican primary, then withdrew his nominations in five of those contests. Republicans selected Lawrence Zupan to face Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent, for one of Vermont’s U.S. Senate seats, and chose Anya Tynio to vie for...

Republican and Democratic voters in Connecticut and Vermont are heading to the polls to vote in the states’ primaries Tuesday.

A task force put together by the state treasurer is recommending an overhaul of Massachusetts’ alcohol laws, some of which date to the end of Prohibition in 1933.

Most Republican leaders in Alabama say they plan to vote for Roy Moore on Tuesday, despite sexual misconduct allegations against the former judge that have prompted others around the country to say he should never be allowed to join the U.S. Senate. “I have stated both publicly and privately over the last month that unless these allegations were proven to...

Assistant Treasurer Shawn Collins tapped to lead agency.

It seems increasingly unlikely that the state’s top elected officials will meet a deadline for assembling the agency that will regulate marijuana in Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts State Lottery has yielded more than $1 billion in annual profits, even as sales have dipped.

Backers of legalized recreational marijuana are urging Massachusetts legislators to hold off on any major changes to the voter-approved law.

Massachusetts’ state treasurer is asking the U.S. Justice Department to clarify its stance on legal recreational marijuana laws in states where it’s legal.

Money that could have been used to modernize California’s water infrastructure and build more water storage has been held up due to red tape at the state level that requires a lengthy regulatory and bidding process, CNBC reported.

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