Maura Healey launches campaign for governor, promising to ‘continue with what’s working and fix what’s not’

Attorney General Maura Healey, who made herself a national figure with lawsuits against the Trump administration and big corporations, formally launched her campaign for governor on Thursday, immediately becoming the race’s presumptive front-runner.

In her first public remarks as a gubernatorial candidate, the second-term Democrat pitched herself as an experienced public servant prepared to extend her purview from legal issues to kitchen-table ones, and get the Massachusetts economy “back on track.” And though she has built a reputation as a progressive, Healey resisted such labels on Thursday, instead striking a moderate...