Bob Metcalfe sat across from me in his Beacon Hill home on a Friday night just before Christmas.
From local party hacks to the grandees of Beacon Hill, the pols are looking for a step up the food chain.
Laura Lashbrook Colby, Division Director of staffing agency Beacon Hill Associates, says LinkedIn is an integral part of how they do business.
Beacon Hill Village created a manual to help others start villages.
Republicans can offer only token resistance now because Democrats hold 127 of the 160 House seats and 36 of 40 Senate seats on Beacon Hill.
Massachusetts has plenty of Democratic voters but a shortage of extremely wealthy towns, and so is represented by only one locale, the Beacon Hill section of Boston.
It landed in this hole because the folks on Beacon Hill like the sound of universal healthcare a whole lot more than they like the cost of it.
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Inside the golden domed State House on Beacon Hill is an oil painting of Romney with a copy of a bill decorated in a medical symbol beside a portrait of his wife Ann.
But last August Beacon Hill was forced to impose new price controls and a cap on overall state health spending because "health-care spending has crowded out key public investments, " as Mr. Patrick puts it in his budget.
Most of his work revolved around the annual budget process, a Beacon Hill ritual in which the governor, Republican or Democrat, presents a budget to the Massachusetts legislature, which quickly dismantles the plan and replaces it with its own agenda, overriding any eventual veto attempts by the governor.
Created bottle by bottle at the top of the 288m (945ft) high chalk hill, Mr Munro is hoping his beacon "will be seen for miles".
"America is still the land of opportunity, and it is a beacon of hope and liberty and, as Ronald Reagan said, a shining city on the hill, " McCain said.
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