
Wicked Local
February 28, 2011
State Rep. Ed Coppinger joined with Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and a coalition of legislators, district attorneys, law enforcement officials, and victim advocates to announce the filing of An Act Relative to the Commercial Exploitation of People, comprehensive legislation that would for the first time, establish human trafficking for sexual servitude or labor as a crime in Massachusetts.
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West Roxbury Patch
February 2, 2011
by David Ertischek
On Monday Massachusetts Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo announced committee assignments for the new legislative session, and it was something that first-term State Representative Ed Coppinger had been looking forward to for months.
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West Roxbury Patch
January 20, 2011
by Timothy Robertson
In less than five months following his election to a state senate seat, Michael Rush (D-West Roxbury) will be deployed to Iraq, leaving his chief of staff in charge of his office, Rush said Wednesday.
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West Roxbury Transcript
January 14, 2011
by Dan Atkinson
After 14 years in the Naval Reserve, newly-elected State Sen. Mike Rush is getting called up for duty — he’ll be deployed to Iraq as an intelligence officer in March.
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