Attorney General candidate Warren Tolman—described by WGBH's Peter Kadzis as a "consummate political insider" and "prince of labor"—won his party's endorsement at the recent Massachusetts Democratic State Convention, but only by the slimmest of margins. Somehow, newcomer Maura Healey managed to come within a whisker of winning. And in what's been a pretty boring election year thus far, the Attorney General race is becoming the thing to watch.

Plus, gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley's Scott Brown apology tour continues—and while Coakley and her rivals Steve Grossman and Don Berwick all identify with the term "progressive," its meaning is nebulous at best.

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