GOVERNORS

While Massachusetts lawmakers meet with seemingly light agendas dealing mostly with local community-level issues, objections can pop up surprisingly.

Massachusetts Democrats captured all major offices on the ballot, and Massachusetts Republicans are re-grouping and taking a closer look at their messaging.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern represents the 2nd Congressional District in Massachusetts and chairs the House Rules Committee. He stands to lose his chairmanship with a GOP takeover.

Massachusetts Gov.-elect Maura Healey and her running mate, Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Driscoll, plan to spend part of Wednesday chatting with the Republicans whose jobs they will take over in January.

Incumbent Democrat Ned Lamont defeated Republican challenger Bob Stefanowski and Independent Party candidate Rob Hotaling.

In Massachusetts Democrat Maura Healey and Republican Geoff Diehl are vying to succeed Gov. Charlie Baker, who decided not to run for re-election.

Democrat Maura Healey plans to fill in the "yes" bubble on a pair of ballot questions dealing with taxes and immigration, while Republican Geoff Diehl will select "no" on the two measures whose fates will be decided by voters on the same day they pick the first new Massachusetts governor in eight years.

The candidates for governor of Massachusetts debated for the first time ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

As the Legislature prepares to return $3 billion to taxpayers under the terms of a 1986 law, some unfinished economic development plans that included one-time checks for residents, could get scaled back.

The Massachusetts governor's race features two candidates with starkly different views of former President Donald Trump. Trump has endorsed Geoff Diehl, while Maura Healey repeatedly sued the Trump administration.