Mass. likely to lose seat in US House

Massachusetts almost certainly will lose one of its 10 congressional districts after next year’s census, the result of a long-term population shift that is giving Southern and Western states more political power in Washington at the expense of the Northeast, say specialists who have been poring over data in advance of the 2010 count. Read more... http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/08/14/population_shift_likely_to_cost_mass_seat_in_us_house/