The Washington Post, "Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign decision: Quietly agonizing as months go by," February 14, 2019 By Matt Viser and Michael Scherer Joe Biden was going to decide whether to run for president by the end of 2018. That deadline slipped. Just after New Year’s, he said he would…

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The Horse Race, "Episode 40: The Last Ballots Standing," July 18, 2018 George Cronin, managing director of our public affairs practice and veteran ballot campaign strategist, appeared on The Horse Race podcast for a conversation on the upcoming ballot questions – nurse to patient limits, commission on limiting election spending…

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WGBH's Boston Public Radio, "BPR Full Show: 7/16/18," July 16, 2018 Jessica Beeson Tocco, lead Republican lobbyist and Director of the firm's National Public Affairs practice joined 89.7 WGBH’s midday program Boston Public Radio. Alongside cohosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan, the conversation included relevant news and policy topics, such as Donald Trump’s SCOTUS nominee Brett…

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The Boston Globe, "An Early Pence Ally Wants to Build Rasky's National Lobbying Practice," April 16, 2018 By Jon Chesto Jess Tocco hopes her firm can benefit from the scramble for infrastructure money across the country. Toward that end, Tocco is leading a new effort at the lobbying/PR shop Rasky…

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The Boston Globe, "If Democrats Seize House, Massachusetts is Poised to Recapture Some Former Glory," April 2, 2018 By Liz Goodwin WASHINGTON — The once mighty Massachusetts delegation — locked out of power and languishing in the minority in Congress — may be poised to seize back some of its…

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POLITICO, "Is Massachusetts the Next Transgender Rights Battleground," March 29, 2018 By Lauren Dezenski BOSTON — Deep-blue Massachusetts may seem an unlikely battleground in the fight over transgender rights. But supporters and opponents alike say a November ballot question on whether to strike down the state’s recently enacted law protecting…

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CommonWealth Magazine, "Connecting the Lobbying Dots," March 8, 2018 By Bruce Mohl THE LEGISLATURE DIDN’T DO a whole lot last year, but the state’s top lobbying firms kept rolling along. ML Strategies, the lobbying arm of the Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo law firm, and O’Neill and Associates retained…

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WGBH's Greater Boston, "President Trump Preaches Unity, Critics Cry Division," January 31, 2018 Donald Trump’s first State of the Union was half victory lap, half stories of acts of heroism. In the end, 75 percent of people who watched the speech approved of it, according to a new CBS News…

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WGBH's Greater Boston, "Democrats & Republicans Turn On Their Own," December 6, 2017 Within the last 24 hours, Washington has seen members of both parties start to turn on their own. At least two dozen Democratic senators are calling for Al Franken to resign, with a sixth sexual misconduct allegation against…

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