Author: Jim Quigley

Massachusetts ‘has money to start’ replacing Cape Cod bridges, officials say

BOURNE, Mass. – Several top Massachusetts officials are celebrating more funding to replace the aging Cape Cod bridges.

Massachusetts was awarded nearly $1 billion for the project last week. That’s on top of the $700 million the governor has already pledged from state funds.

offices in Moscow in May 2013, sitting at a table across the room from three rows of Russian intelligence officials and officeholders. Alexander Bortnikov, director of the FSB, Russia’s top security service, was reading to Keating and a small congressional delegation a list of dates, times, and communications it had collected about one of the Boston Marathon bombers.

Read More: Mass. officials say it could be 8 to 10 years to replace each Cape Cod bridge, project could stretch through 2030s



President Biden Bows Out of Race, Local Democrats Lift Up His Legacy

Massachusetts politicians at the state and federal level echoed much of the same. 

“Joe Biden will go down as one of the most effective presidents in our history,” said U.S. Rep. William Keating, a Bourne Democrat that represents the Vineyard in Washington. 

Mr. Biden’s willingness to step down only affirmed Mr. Keating’s assessment, he said. 

“As if the last four years didn’t already make it clear, today firmly demonstrates that Joe Biden is the antithesis of Donald Trump, putting country ahead of personal ambition,” he said.

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Rep. Keating says Trump assassination attempt was “serious lapse” by Secret Service

BOSTON – The country is still reeling from the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

Senator Ed Markey expressed his concerns about the shooting on Tuesday. “Thank God he survived,” Senator Markey said on Cape Cod. “What a tragedy that it has occurred.”

Law enforcement officials told CBS News that moments before the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, a police sniper spotted the gunman, 20-year-old Thomas Matthews Crooks, sitting outside of the building he used in his attack, and took a picture of him. 

After Crooks was seen looking through a rangefinder, the police sniper immediately alerted the command post. Crooks was spotted again with a backpack, and police backup was called — but by the time officers responded, Crooks had scaled the building and positioned himself above and behind the local snipers inside the building.

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An FSB meeting, Steven Seagal, and spies everywhere: The story of how Bill Keating investigated a Boston Marathon bomber in Russia

WASHINGTON — Representative Bill Keating was scribbling furiously in his FSB-branded notebook.

The Bourne Democrat was in a brightly lit conference room in Russian government offices in Moscow in May 2013, sitting at a table across the room from three rows of Russian intelligence officials and officeholders. Alexander Bortnikov, director of the FSB, Russia’s top security service, was reading to Keating and a small congressional delegation a list of dates, times, and communications it had collected about one of the Boston Marathon bombers.



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Affordable housing is an issue in the SouthCoast. This group wants to help.

Kathryn Gallerani
Standard-Times

DARTMOUTH — With housing a fundamental need, it’s vital to share the programs and other resources available to help residents struggling to find and maintain a place to live, but some say it can be challenging to get the word out to the people who need help. 

Congressman Bill Keating said that’s why he convened the Southcoast Affordable Housing Forum hosted by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Wednesday afternoon, focusing, he said, on the adults and children at risk of homelessness and the homeless population.  

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Keating on Immigration Reform, Martha’s Vineyard Response to DeSantis

Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis thrusted Martha’s Vineyard into the forefront of the conversation immigration policy by chartering flights to send 50 Venezuelan migrants to Edgartown.

Democrat Congressman Bill Keating, who represents most of Southeastern Massachusetts as well the Cape and Islands in Congress, lauded the islanders for responding rapidly and with overwhelming support and solidarity.



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