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Harriette Chandler Of Worcester Elected Acting Mass. Senate President

    The Massachusetts State Senate has a new leader.

    After a day of extraordinary drama and closed door meetings that lasted hours, Senators met in a special session Monday night to elect Democrat Harriette Chandler of Worcester as acting president. 

     The Senate also authorized an Ethics Committee investigation into now former Senate President Stan Rosenberg of Amherst.  

    The investigation will look into whether Rosenberg’s husband Bryon Hefner had any influence over Senate business.

     Prosecutors plan to investigate Hefner for alleged sexual assaults. 

     Rosenberg took an unprecedented leave of absence as Senate President.

        WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke this morning with the new Senate leader.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.
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