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PLYMOUTH - US Representative William R. Keating says he couldn’t be
happier with his new congressional district, which in last year’s
redistricting lost Quincy and six surrounding towns. The 9th Congressional District of Massachusetts now includes New
Bedford, America's most profitable fishing port, and eight other south coast communities.
With the addition of the south coast, the New Bedford-Fall River area is the district’s largest urban center. Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter, a Fall River Democrat, has already declared his intention to run in the Sept. 6 Democratic primary. Another Democrat, former state senator Robert A. O’Leary of Barnstable, who finished 1,300 votes, or 2 percentage points, behind Keating in the 2010 Democratic race, is considering running again. Slow population growth forced Massachusetts lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional map, eliminating one of 10 districts. In the process, the Legislature created a minority-majority district centered in Boston and crafted the 9th District to give more clout to a growing region that for decades has been represented in Congress by politicians from Boston or nearby inner suburbs Read the complete story in The Boston Globe
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MELISSA WOOD, NATIONAL FISHERMEN: Meting out the meager
May 22, 2012 - Listening to the New England Council's Groundfish Advisory Panel talk about how that industry is going to pay for monitoring costs is kind of like trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you've just lost your job. Though monitoring is important keeping costs down is critical. As Panel Member Gary Libby pointed out, "If we had 100 percent monitoring we probably wouldn't have an industry."