Public hearing scheduled on possible change to state law as governor sets 19 January as the date for special election
Massachusetts legislators have scheduled a public hearing on whether to change state law to allow the governor to name an interim replacement for the late US senator Edward Kennedy.
Lawmakers decided today to set the hearing for [...]

Another Kennedy just might occupy the Kennedy seat in the Senate. Amid the emotional public outpouring over the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy, talk of a successor has focused on his widow, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, and his nephew, Joseph Kennedy II, the 56-year-…

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Mrs. Kennedy, Kara, Edward, Patrick, Curran, Caroline, members of the Kennedy family, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Today we say goodbye to the youngest child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy. The world will long remember their son Edward… more …

Ted Kennedy’s death triggers what could be a bruising, crowded Democratic free-for-all for his Senate seat. Among the leading possibilities are Kennedy’s nephew Joseph Kennedy II, his widow, Vicki, Rep. Barney Frank and several elected… more …

‘There are no second acts in American lives’– this dour pronouncement of F Scott Fitzgerald has been many times refuted, and at no time more appropriately than in reference to the late Senator Ted Kennedy, whose death was announced yesterday. Indeed, it might be argued that Senator Kennedy’s career as one of the most influential [...]