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Northshore October 2025
Charlie Baker is riding a wave of Republican pride in a notoriously blue state. But will it be big enough for this Swampscott resident to unseat a Democrat and become the next governor of Massachusetts? On a blistering cold morning in late January, the warmth of hundreds of people radiated through Boston’s Faneuil Hall as crowds swarmed to listen to a man speak. Like many who spoke at that hall before him— from Samuel Adams to Ted Kennedy—he wanted to talk politics. Television news crews maneuvered feverishly around the crowds, while camera phones flashed against the ivory white columns from every direction amidst a s
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