WITH ALL THREE of the state’s legal sportsbooks now having already owned up to accepting bets on games that were not legally permitted, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission on Tuesday began […]
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Posted inPolitics
Baker, Polito wade back into local politics
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A MONTH AFTER they left office, former Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito are wading back into the political fray with endorsements of the […]
Posted inState Government, State House News Service
State tax revenues miss mark for first time since June 2020
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE STATE REVENUE collections missed the mark by nearly 5 percent in January, with the $3.834 billion that the Department of Revenue reeled in landing $192 million, […]
Posted inState Government, State House News Service
Under new rules, House returns to in-person sessions
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE HOUSE on Wednesday unanimously adopted its rules for the two-year term that began four weeks ago, agreeing to eliminate a pandemic-era policy that allowed representatives […]
Posted inTransportation
Doubts raised about the T’s bus redesign plan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the MBTA Advisory Board on Thursday gave T overseers an earful, telling the T board  that MBTA host communities are concerned that […]
Posted inRace/Racism
Healey calls King statue important given Boston’s ‘narrative’
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AS SHE PREPARES Â to speak at the unveiling of The Embrace, a Boston Common monument honoring the lives and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. […]
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Mass. Business Roundtable official appointed to Healey cabinet
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE LAUREN JONES, a Massachusetts Business Roundtable official who at one point worked as communications director for the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, was announced […]
Posted inState Government, State House News Service
Healey goes with interim secretary of health, human services
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV.-ELECT MAURA HEALEY will start her term as governor with an interim secretary of health and human services, acknowledging that she needs more time to find […]
Posted inEnergy, State House News Service
Mass. shows interest in financing Maine wind project
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A 1,000 MEGAWATT onshore wind project planned for northern Maine and an associated transmission build-out “would provide benefits to Massachusetts and the region,” the Mass. Department […]
Posted inGambling
Start dates for in-person sports betting set
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE GAMING COMMISSION on Thursday narrowed the launch date for  in-person sports betting in Massachusetts and it appears as if the first bets could be placed […]
Posted inEducation
Riley ‘shocked’ at MTA push for right to strike
ALLOWING PUBLICÂ school teachers to strike would be “a bridge too far” and disregards the pandemic lessons about the importance of in-person learning, the state’s education commissioner said Tuesday as the […]
Posted inGambling
Free sports bets? How to tax them?
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GAMING REGULATORS have reached no conclusions  as to how they will treat, for tax purposes, the promotional betting offers that sports wagering companies dangle to attract customers, […]
Posted inMarijuana, State Government, State House News Service
Cannabis commission seeks 23% budget increase
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE MEMBERS OF THE  Cannabis Control Commission voted  to approve a fiscal year 2024 budget request of more than $23.7 million, including 26 new hires and $1.5 […]
Posted inState Government, State House News Service
State pension board looking to rebound
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE OFFICIALS AT THE STATE pension fund expect economic cycles and market downturns will periodically affect their investments and the quarter that ended in September “was one […]
Posted inEnergy, Environment, State House News Service
No consensus on timing for fossil fuel heat shift
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A COMMISSION that spent the last 11 months studying ways to help the state meet its emissions reduction requirements by shifting to cleaner buildings and addressing […]
Posted inPolitics
Baker talks politics on CNN
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE STEPPING ONTO A STAGE that he usually shuns, outgoing Gov. Charlie Baker recently invited CNN to his State House office so he could share his thoughts […]
Posted inEconomy
Boncore resigns abruptly at MassBIO
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Former state senator Joe Boncore is stepping down as CEO of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council by the end of the year and his second-in-command, Kendalle Burlin […]
Posted inEnergy, State House News Service
Wind farm raises alarms about its viability
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A MAJOR OFFSHORE wind project in the Massachusetts pipeline “is no longer viable and would not be able to move forward” under the terms of contracts […]
Posted inEnergy, State House News Service
State’s largest solar field opens in Ludlow
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A RENEWABLE ENERGYÂ project in Ludlow will soon start generating enough power for more than 1,500 homes, boosters said as they cut the ribbon Monday on the […]
Posted inState Government, State House News Service
Rating agencies praise state, but also issue warning
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE BIG THREE credit rating agencies had largely good things to say about Massachusetts this month, but one firm warned that the strong economic fundamentals and […]
Posted inGambling
Sports betting could start in late Jan., maybe
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AN EMERGENCY MEETING called Friday was still not enough for the members of the Gaming Commission to agree on actual dates for the potential launch of […]
Posted inGambling
Lottery facing headwinds, sales down
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AS ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY and an expanding menu of gambling options send lottery sales into a slide in Massachusetts and across the country, Massachusetts officials are thinking […]
Posted inHealth, Health Care, State House News Service
Biden pushes cancer moonshot at JFK Library
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE SIXTY YEARS after President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to collectively get behind the goal of putting a man on the moon by the end […]
Posted inState Government, State House News Service
Baker administration puts tax cap excess at $2.9b
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Wednesday filed a $1.6 billion supplemental budget to close the books on fiscal year 2022, proposing another $200 million in aid for […]