DEDHAM – State officials recently announced the award of $6.5 million total to cities and towns which applied for funding from the Shared Streets and Spaces Grant Program. The program provides technical and funding assistance to help Massachusetts municipalities conceive, design, and implement changes to curbs, streets, plazas, and parking areas in support of public health, safe mobility, renewed commerce, and community betterment. For this round of awards, MassDOT received

Amendment sets guidelines for subcommittees For Immediate Release: July 21, 2021 BOSTON — Members of the Massachusetts Senate voted...

All Norfolk & Plymouth District communities to receive funding for district priorities   For Immediate Release: July 13, 2021 BOSTON –...

Company operations should also cease domestically and internationally For Immediate Release: July 8, 2021 BOSTON – Senator John F. Keenan...

MassDOT’s 7/6/21 presentation on the widening of Route 18 through the communities of Weymouth and Abington, including costs, timeline, and planned traffic detours. Click the slides below to see the presentation.

Norfolk & Plymouth district to receive $3,901,973 For Immediate Release: July 2, 2021 BOSTON (07/02/2021) — The Massachusetts State...

Reports Show High Numbers of Assistance Denials For Immediate Release: June 24, 2021 BOSTON — With financial hardship continuing to be a...

Senator Keenan and Representative Ayers Nominated Constituent, Manet Community Health Center CEO For Immediate Release: 6/17/21 BOSTON –...

Budget includes several Senator Keenan priority amendments For Immediate Release: June 8, 2021 BOSTON – The Massachusetts Senate passed...

I am humbled and honored to be here with you. I haven’t done this before, so I was not sure what to say, or even how to say it. I googled graduation speeches and learned that it is good to tell a joke, and so I ran that by my wife Jeanne, and she said “Don’t, you’re not funny.” So rather than try to be funny, let me tell you about a few people I have met. A little over two years ago, I was on a Greek Island, about 7 miles off the coast of Turkey, volunteering at the Moria Ref

Quincy to receive $52,858,392 in school and local funding aid For Immediate Release: 5/27/21 BOSTON – On Thursday, May 27, the...

Sadly, what happened in Georgia is all too predictable, and happens all too often. Some people are full of hate and rage, cut-off from those who could help, and connected more so to those who prod, promote, and exploit that hate and rage. And then there is the easy access to a gun, and that predictable outcome becomes the actual outcome. People die, because they are like those whom some hate and rage against, and because they happen to be in the place where the gun is pointed

Appointed Chair of Housing, Vice-chair of Transportation For Immediate Release: 2/17/21 BOSTON – Committee assignments have been...

For Immediate Release: 1/28/21 BOSTON – This week, the Baker-Polito Administration announced nearly $13 million in state and federal...

Yesterday, the legislature passed S.2963, An Act relative to Justice, Equity and Accountability in Law Enforcement in the Commonwealth. This bill, which addresses issues of racial justice and police reform in Massachusetts, has been negotiated in Conference Committee for the past four months and reflects a compromise between previously passed House and Senate versions. I believe that the text of Senate Bill 2963 is a step forward for our state, for our communities of color, a

For Immediate Release: 11/24/2020 BOSTON – Massachusetts Senator John Keenan (D-Quincy) will host virtual Office Hours on Monday,...

Tireless work resulted in passage of landmark tobacco prevention and cessation law For Immediate Release: 11/18/20 BOSTON – Tobacco Free...

Award is Highest Honor Presented by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network For Immediate Release: September 21, 2020 BOSTON –...

Thank you to all those who reached out about Senate Bill 2800, the Reform, Shift + Build Act. This bill has prompted many necessary discussions about racial justice and the role of law enforcement in the Commonwealth, including communications from hundreds of constituents. I appreciate the numerous and productive conversations I’ve had over the past week, which have reinforced the deeply personal aspects of this bill.  Let me first state that I truly appreciate the work done

One day a while ago while having lunch in Quincy, I barely noticed at first the diversity of the people eating at the restaurant. When I did notice, I marveled at it. I thought how far we have come since the Quincy of my youth. I remember in the mid-1970s, new classmates at my elementary school. They were part of what was known as “white flight”, i.e. white people fleeing Boston because of the integration of the public schools, because of busing. I saw the terrible images on