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Healey pledges full funding of 2019 education law, other initiatives at meeting with municipal leaders
01-20-2023 2:49 PM

By Sam Drysdale

BOSTON — In her first appearance before Massachusetts’ municipal leaders, Gov. Maura Healey said she would fully fund the Student Opportunity Act, seek supplemental funding to cover costs associated with serving migrant children in the state’s public...


Transparency rules back in spotlight on Beacon Hill
01-18-2023 4:34 PM

By Chris Lisinski

BOSTON — Around the country, state legislatures use their public websites to publish reams of written testimony submitted in support or opposition to proposals, name special interest groups and people who offer formal feedback, and identify how...


State housing market cooling down
01-17-2023 8:08 PM

By COLIN A. YOUNG

After two years of double-digit increases in home sale prices and inventory that couldn’t keep up with demand, signs of a correction in the Massachusetts housing market were apparent in the final 2022 statistics, analysts at The Warren Group said...


Impaired driving program reveals rift among cannabis commissioners
01-13-2023 3:36 PM

By Sam Drysdale

BOSTON — Cannabis control commissioners are in sharp disagreement over a new curriculum on driving under the influence of marijuana.This month, Massachusetts became the first recreational-use cannabis state in the nation to adopt a curriculum to...


Healey: Monument ‘means something’ in fight against racism
01-12-2023 7:54 PM

By Colin A. Young

BOSTON — As she prepares to speak at the unveiling of The Embrace, a Boston Common monument honoring the lives and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, Gov. Maura Healey said the memorial is particularly meaningful given the...


Cannabis control chief cleared of wrongdoing over tie to Greenfield applicant
01-12-2023 7:53 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

Cannabis Control Commission Chairwoman Shannon O’Brien did not break any CCC regulations with her ties to a company that the commission regulates, a CCC investigation released Wednesday concluded.An application from the Greenfield cultivation company...


MCAS getting fresh look in shifting landscape
01-10-2023 8:32 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

Top Democrats are leaving the door open to reassessing the role of Massachusetts’ long-controversial standardized testing system as some education advocates reinvigorate calls to abolish the tests or remove the requirement that high school seniors...


Healey staffs up to elevate state’s climate focus
01-09-2023 10:14 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

COSTON — As promised in her inaugural speech Thursday, one of Gov. Maura Healey’s first actions as governor was to issue an executive order creating the country’s first Cabinet-level climate chief.The order announced Friday, Healey’s first full day in...


Baker signs law protecting ‘vulnerable’ road users
01-03-2023 4:53 PM

By MICHAEL P. NORTON

Gov. Charlie Baker has agreed to a new law aimed at making roads safer for “vulnerable users” such as bicyclists, pedestrians, skateboarders and anyone else who is not in a vehicle.Baker signed the bill (H 5103) Sunday after it gained momentum during...


RMV joins multistate record-sharing compact
07-21-2022 11:03 AM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — The Registry of Motor Vehicles now has another tool to track out-of-state driving records, an area where gaps in the past have been tied to tragic results.Over the weekend of June 25 and 26, the RMV tested and successfully rolled out a new...


Sales tax holiday weekend set for Aug. 13-14
06-13-2022 1:53 PM

By SAM DORAN

BOSTON — The Legislature on Monday set the dates of this year’s sales tax holiday weekend, settling on Aug. 13 and 14, when Massachusetts shoppers will get a break from state sales tax on most retail items less than $2,500.The annual sales-tax-free...


Drug defendants splitting $14M in state lab scandal settlement
06-02-2022 3:54 PM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Roughly 31,000 defendants who had criminal convictions vacated in the wake of a massive state drug lab scandal are poised to split about $14 million in settlement payments under a new agreement between their lawyers and Attorney General Maura...


House leaders eye $110M jolt for strained early education field
04-11-2022 8:57 PM

By COLIN A. YOUNG

BOSTON — With more than $110 million for the early education and care sector, including a tripling of funding for provider salaries, House leaders said Monday that their fiscal year 2023 budget proposal will seek to make child care more accessible to...


Former Senate president Stanley Rosenberg returning as lobbyist
09-25-2020 12:55 PM

By MATT MURPHY

BOSTON – When Stanley Rosenberg left Beacon Hill in the spring of 2018 under less than desirable circumstances, no one could say for sure if or when the Amherst Democrat might resurface after a career spent in public service.But Rosenberg, who once...

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