Western Mass Politics & Insight

In 2024, both Springfield's city council and school committee saw high-stakes debates and votes early on. How they navigated them, plus primary challenges and a drunk driving incident involving the Hampden County Sheriff, were some of the city's top political stories of the year. WAMC's Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief James Paleologopoulos spoke with Matt Szafranski, Editor-in-Chief of Western Mass. Politics & Insight, about how it all played out.

Except in Greenfield, it was good to be an incumbent mayor

Sarno can extend his record tenure in office, Hurst would be the city's first Black mayor

First-term City Councilor Delmarina Lopez is running for mayor

Special election is scheduled for Sept. 13th

Voters in November will elect city's first new mayor in a decade

Democratic State Rep. John Velis has won a special election in Massachusetts to fill a vacant State Senate seat last held by Don Humason, who is now the…

Another state legislator from western Massachusetts is calling it quits. Democratic State Representative Jose Tosado of Springfield is expected to…

Agawam and Easthampton are among the western Massachusetts communities where voters Tuesday will decide races for mayor. In both, the incumbents are not…