STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS ASSOCIATION is pushing lawmakers to increase state funding for public education by more than $1.5 billion a year by May 1, a campaign […]
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Big question for lawmakers: When will downturn come?
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE DESPITE A STRONG ECONOMY, last year’s $1 billion budget surplus, and revenue collections that are outperforming expectations so far this year, the potential for an economic […]
Posted inPolitics
Elugardo says House needs structural change
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE WHEN NIKA ELUGARDO was young, her “little middle school protest” was to leave the Pledge of Allegiance incomplete when reciting it in class, dropping the phrase […]
Posted inEconomy
Rivera: Columbia Gas should be disbanded
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Federal lawmakers who gathered in Lawrence Monday called for top executives at Columbia Gas and its parent company to leave their jobs in the wake of […]
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Baker, Warren cruise to second terms
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE REPUBLICAN GOV. CHARLIE BAKER will return to the corner office in January, resoundingly winning reelection Tuesday night after campaigning on a message of bipartisanship. Baker defeated […]
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Actress: Yes on Q3 would send message to nation
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AS THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT weighs changes to legal definitions around sex and gender, a vote to uphold a Massachusetts law aimed at protecting transgender people from […]
Posted inHealth Care
Council imposes new conditions on BI-Lahey merger
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE NEW CONDITIONS IMPOSED Wednesday on a pending 13-hospital merger are “unprecedented,” according to the executive set to helm the new system, who said the terms and […]
Posted inHealth Care
HPC urged to weigh in on nurse ballot question
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE CITING COMPETING CLAIMS from both sides of a nurse staffing ballot question, health insurers on Wednesday asked a state agency to produce in the next month […]
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Baker declares emergency, enlists Eversource
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Friday afternoon declared a state of emergency in the wake of a series of gas fires and explosions in the Merrimack Valley, […]
Posted inHealth Care
Slow growth in MA health care spending
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE HEALTH CARE SPENDING in Massachusetts rose 1.6 percent to $61.1 billion in 2017, increasing at the slowest rate tracked since the passage of a 2012 health […]
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Gonzalez slams Baker for supporting GOP ticket
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV. CHARLIE BAKER said on Friday that he is supporting the entire GOP statewide slate, include US Senate nominee Geoff Diehl, a supporter of President Trump. […]
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Sanchez, Spilka drop immigration issue from budget
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE INABILITY OF HOUSE AND SENATE budget negotiators to reach a consensus over immigration law enforcement doomed a budget measure that would have restricted local police […]
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DeLeo: Let’s take policy issues out of spending plan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE WITH THE STATE’S ANNUAL BUDGET now nine days late, House Speaker Robert DeLeo floated the idea Monday of separating the policy proposals in the spending bill […]
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Baker says feds reviewing son’s groping charge
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE US ATTORNEY’S OFFICE is reviewing allegations that Gov. Charlie Baker’s son A.J. groped a woman on a plane last week, and state authorities are not […]
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Senate passes ‘extreme risk’ gun bill
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE BOTH BRANCHES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE have now signed off on bills that would create a new judicial process designed to temporarily take guns away from […]
Posted inEducation
Finalists for UMass Boston job all withdraw
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE THREE FINALISTS to become the next University of Massachusetts Boston chancellor each withdrew from consideration over the weekend, citing “extreme disappointment” with actions by the […]
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Meehan: Many more college closures coming
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE LESSONS FROM THE CONTROVERSIAL acquisition of Mount Ida College by the University of Massachusetts could be used to shape similar deals in the future, according to […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Hefner indicted on felony charges
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A GRAND JURY on Thursday indicted Bryon Hefner, the husband of former Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, on felony charges connected with five sexual assaults, criminal lewdness, […]
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DeLeo sheds more light on non-disclosures
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE HOUSE SPEAKER ROBERT DELEO used two different figures this week in describing the number of non-disclosure agreements signed by departing House employees during his tenure, and […]
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Speaker: Non-disclosure agreements ‘part of doing business’
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A DAY AFTER two state representatives blasted the Massachusetts House’s use of nondisclosure and non-disparagement agreements with some departing employees, Speaker Robert DeLeo on Friday defended […]
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Chandler expresses confidence in Rosenberg probe
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ACTING SENATE PRESIDENT HARRIETTE CHANDLER expressed confidence Monday in the integrity of an ongoing sexual harassment investigation in the Senate, in the wake of reports that […]
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Chandler elected acting Senate president
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE SENATE INITIATED an Ethics Committee investigation on Monday night into its now former president Sen. Stanley Rosenberg in a dramatic day of upheaval that saw […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
House pushes narrower criminal justice legislation
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE plans to consider substantial changes to the way justice is delivered, with a powerful committee polling members Monday on legislation to repeal certain […]
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Top Baker aide offers sex offender fixes
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE IN RESPONSE TO A CRITICAL AUDIT, the state’s top public safety official on Tuesday outlined changes that could be made at the agency tasked with monitoring […]
