Dan O'Brien

2 weeks ago | milforddailynews.com | Dan O'Brien

Incumbent Select Board members Joe Magnani and Brandi Kinsman won reelection in Ashland's town election. Scott Pelletier won a two-year seat on the Planning Board as a write-in candidate. Voter turnout was very low, with only 4.2% of registered voters participating. Incumbent Select Board members Joe Magnani and Brandi Kinsman held off a challenge from Carlton Phelps in the only formally contested race in the May 20 Ashland Town Election.

2 weeks ago | milforddailynews.com | Dan O'Brien

Matt Kizner is the newest member of the Hopkinton Select Board after topping the ticket in the May 19 annual town election. Incumbent Select Board member Shahidul Mannan secured the other open spot on the five-member panel. Kizner, who was most recently chair of the town's Capital Improvement Committee, earned 805 votes. Mannan collected 744 to earn a second three-year term on the town's top governing board. A third candidate, Jeffrey Doyle, came up a bit short with 703 votes.

2 weeks ago | bbc.co.uk | Dan O'Brien |Sophie Parker

Image caption, Wiltshire Council was left with no majority after the local electionsPolitical Reporter, WiltshireThe Liberal Democrats will be running Wiltshire Council going forward. The party appears to have received the backing of independent councillors to form an administration after no party won enough seats for a majority at the local elections. The Liberal Democrats had the highest number of seats, but still not enough to lead on their own.

2 weeks ago | thecurrency.news | Dan O'Brien

Britain is in a state of collective depression. This is not unusual in the Western world. I write this from Prague, where many people say there is a mood of unrelenting glumness among Czechs despite the country’s successful transformation from an impoverished communist dictatorship 35 years ago to a prosperous democracy today. The sense that many economic and societal problems are getting worse, and that progress in addressing others is not happening, is pervasive not just in the UK and Czechia.

2 weeks ago | milforddailynews.com | Dan O'Brien

Voters in Hopkinton will have just two races to decide when they visit the polls at the Hopkinton Middle School on Monday, May 19, for the annual town election. There are no ballot questions. Incumbent Select Board member Shahidul Mannan faces two challengers, Jeffrey Doyle and Matt Kizner, for two three-year seats on the town's top governing board. A second incumbent, Mary Jo LaFreniere, is not seeking reelection.