An overheated industry has gone bust. A tepid economy is not producing enough jobs. And a successful businessman promises he can use his private-sector experience to jump-start the economy. This is presidential candidate Mitt Romney now, but it was also Romney nearly a decade ago when he ran for governor of Massachusetts, a state that was still reeling from the tech bubble’s burst. Read full article > >

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As Massachusetts governor, Romney had an unremarkable record on jobs

LAS VEGAS — Mitt Romney appeared headed for a big victory in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses, an outcome that would give the former Massachusetts governor his second consecutive victory of the year and tighten his claim to dominant front-runner status in what has been a turbulent Republican presidential race. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney poised for victory in Nevada caucuses

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney appears likely to become the first candidate to win consecutive nominating contests in the turbulent 2012 GOP presidential contest , with a double-digit lead in Nevada two days before that state’s caucuses. Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney poised for Nevada caucus win; Newt Gingrich looks ahead to Super Tuesday

If he were elected president, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney says, he would cut companies’ tax bills . But former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) would cut them more than twice as much . Romney would eliminate some people’s capital-gains taxes. But Gingrich would eliminate everybody’s. Read full article > >

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Romney and Gingrich policy ideas mirror their personalities: Pragmatic vs. epic

A harsh new ad from former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney uses news footage from 1997 to remind voters of then-House speaker Newt Gingrich ’s ethics violations. “History Lesson” is unusual in that neither Romney nor Gingrich appears. The entire 30-second spot consists of an NBC News report from Jan. 21, 1997, the day Gingrich was reprimanded by Congress for using tax-exempt money for political purposes and giving the House Ethics Committee false information. Read full article > >

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NBC objects to Mitt Romney’s ‘history lesson’ ad

The former governor of Massachusetts moves past his rival, Newt Gingrich, heading into the final weekend before the vote.

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As Primary Nears, Florida Poll Favors Romney

Engaged: Barney Frank , 71, and longtime partner Jim Ready , 42, the congressman’s office confirmed for us Thursday, following a report by New England Cable News . Where’s the wedding? In Massachusetts, where gay nuptials were made legal in 2004. When? Sorry, that’s all the details they’d give. Frank is set to leave Congress next winter after 32 years, and he’s said the rigors of the job and the desire to devote more time to his relationship were factors. “I have a partner now,” Frank told Charlie Rose in an interview a couple weeks ago. “I’m in love for the first time in my life.” The couple met at a political fundraiser in Ready’s home state of Maine. The Advocate described him in 2009 as a Todd Palin lookalike and surfing enthusiast. Their mostly low-profile relationship has made the news a handful of times, when Ready exchanged words with his beau’s opponents at public forums, and when he was charged with having marijuana plants at his home in 2007. Read full article > >

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Barney Frank engaged to boyfriend Jim Ready (updated)

The lobbying firm of former Representative William Delahunt of Massachusetts is set to be hired for a project that he earmarked $1.7 million for while in Congress.

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Ex-Representative May Lobby for Project He Helped Finance

THURSDAY NIGHT’S Republican presidential debate produced more equivocation from former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney about when he would release his tax returns and how many he would release. He was asked by moderator John King if he would follow the standard set by his own father, George, the former Michigan governor who was the first presidential candidate to release his tax returns . He put out 12 years’ worth in November 1967, as he prepared to run for the White House in 1968 — a point also being made in a Democratic National Committee video. All Mr. Romney could muster was an awkward “Maybe.” Wait until April, he said. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Republicans are falling short of the Romney standard

THURSDAY NIGHT’S Republican presidential debate produced more equivocation from former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney about when he would release his tax returns and how many he would release. He was asked by moderator John King if he would follow the standard set by his own father, George, the former Michigan governor who was the first presidential candidate to release his tax returns . He put out 12 years’ worth in November 1967, as he prepared to run for the White House in 1968 — a point also being made in a Democratic National Committee video. All Mr. Romney could muster was an awkward “Maybe.” Wait until April, he said. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Republicans are falling short of the Romney standard

On the stump, GOP White House hopeful and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney “loves dichotomies,” write Michael Kranish and Scott Helman in a forthcoming book. “Strong versus weak, stagnation versus prosperity, leadership versus drift.” Read full article > >

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Mitt Romney’s complex relationship with religion, family explored in new book

MANCHESTER—Mitt Romney’s victory in New Hampshire was long expected and never in doubt. What the campaign here said about the former Massachusetts governor’s readiness for a possible general election contest against President Obama might have been the more important story. Read full article > >

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Romney’s playing to win the GOP, but the general election is another game

As Mitt Romney edges closer to the Republican presidential nomination, the imperative grows for the former Massachusetts governor to release his income tax returns and disclose the identities of the fundraising bundlers who have brought in millions for his campaign. Mr. Romney’s determined lack of transparency on these two fronts — the candidate and his campaign have said he has no plans to release either — represents a striking and disturbing departure from the past practice of presidential candidates of both parties. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Why won’t Romney release his tax returns?

IF ANYTHING COULD trip up former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in his pursuit of the Republican presidential nomination, it might be the charge that he and the private-equity firm he co-founded, Bain Capital, got rich dismantling companies and destroying jobs. This line of attack hits Mr. Romney at his strong point — his private-sector experience. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: The peculiar debate over Mr. Romney’s business record

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Mitt Romney appeared calm and confident as he greeted voters on Tuesday, even as fallout continued from a spontaneous comment Romney made Monday to a group of business leaders. As the former Massachusetts governor held up a baby outside Webster Middle School here, someone shouted repeatedly: “Are you going to fire the baby?” It was a reference to Romney’s remark that he liked being able to “fire people who provide services to me.” Read full article > >

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As New Hampshire votes, Romney remains confident — despite attacks