STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV. DEVAL PATRICK for the first time on Thursday promised to veto the Legislature’s transportation financing plan if it is not amended to replace toll revenues […]
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Posted inEconomy, Environment, State House News Service
Patrick asks lawmakers for gas tax backup
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEGOV. DEVAL PATRICK PLANS to return the Legislature’s transportation financing plan on Tuesday with an amendment that would trigger an automatic increase in the gas tax in […]
Posted inEnvironment, State House News Service
Coakley suit seeks halt to fishing reductions
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICECALLING DEEP REDUCTIONS in allowable fish catch limits a “death penalty” to the Massachusetts fishing industry, Attorney General Martha Coakley on Thursday filed a lawsuit in federal […]
Posted inEducation, State House News Service
Slain teen’s parents call for relationship ed
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICETHE PARENTS OF SLAIN WAYLAND TEENAGER Lauren Astley made a heartfelt plea to lawmakers on Tuesday to implement comprehensive teen relationship and violence education in public schools, […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, State House News Service
Investigators charge 3 Tsarnaev friends
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICETHREE CURRENT OR FORMER UMASS-DARTMOUTH CLASSMATES of surviving marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been charged by federal prosecutors with conspiring to obstruct justice and destroy evidence. […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics, State House News Service
DeLeo calls tax plan ‘fantasy land’
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEHOUSE SPEAKER ROBERT DELEO called the governor’s request for $1.9 billion in new tax revenue “fantasy land” during a private political caucus with Democrats on Wednesday, expressing […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics, State House News Service
Gomez launches Senate candidacy
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEGABRIEL GOMEZ officially launched his campaign for the US Senate on Thursday, describing himself as a “new kind of Republican” interested in breaking the partisan divide in […]
Posted inEconomy, Opinion, Politics, State House News Service
Patrick applies budget pressure on lawmakers
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEGOV. DEVAL PATRICK’S PLAN to raise $1.9 billion in taxes to finance investments in education and transportation got a two-pronged push Wednesday, as University of Massachusetts President […]
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Murray faces probe on campaign finances
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE STATE REGULATORS FOUND evidence that Lt. Gov. Tim Murray and his campaign committee did not comply with campaign finance laws and referred the matter last September […]
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LG Murray says he won’t run for governor
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICELT. GOV. TIMOTHY MURRAY, after spending the last 15 years in local and statewide public office, will not run for governor in 2014, citing the time commitment […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Politics, State House News Service
Gun control pushed by Obama, state officials
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEGOV. DEVAL PATRICK AND REP. DAVID LINSKY of Natick are pushing gun control measures in Massachusetts, while President Obama unveiled a $500 million package of reforms, calling […]
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Lawmakers, gun control advocates mull strategy
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE.After hosting a private meeting that drew half the Legislature and invited gun control advocates, Natick Democrat Rep. David Linsky said today he intends to file a […]
Posted inState House News Service, Transportation
Electronic tolls pushed by Patrick
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEGOV. DEVAL PATRICK PLANS to recommend switching to an electronic tolling system in Massachusetts, embracing new technology that would cost about $100 million and result in […]
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Patrick wants to cut local aid by 1 percent
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AS PART OF A PLAN to address an estimated $540 million mid-year budget gap, Gov. Deval Patrick on Tuesday slashed spending by $225 million and asked […]
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Burgess posting was a ‘screw up,’ Patrick says
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEHOURS AFTER the Boston Globe reported that the state highway safety director has a long record of accidents and driving infractions, the Patrick administration indicated that Sheila […]
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LG Murray says what everyone knows
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE LT. GOV TIMOTHY MURRAY wants to be the state’s next governor. That much he made clear on Thursday. His plans to make that happen, however, are […]
Posted inHealth Care, Politics, State House News Service
Bigby says NECC has primary responsibility
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE CALLING IT “ONE of the greatest health care tragedies in my memory,” the Patrick administration’s top health official told lawmakers Wednesday that she is committed to […]
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Sen.-elect Warren is monosyllabic
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICECANDIDATE ELIZABETH WARREN was known for giving lengthy answers to the even the simplest of questions, often joking that she had not yet mastered the political skill […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics, State House News Service
State tax revenues lag, mid-year cuts likely
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEIN LIGHT OF a new dim revenue report for October that shows tax collections now trailing estimates for the year by over $250 million, the Patrick administration […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Politics, State House News Service
Coakley recuses herself in drug lab probe
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEFOLLOWING CALLS for Attorney General Martha Coakley to recuse herself from a broader probe into the functioning of the state drug lab at the center of an […]
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Democrats target Republican freshmen
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEFRESHMEN HOUSE REPUBLICANS are in the crosshairs this election cycle with the majority of incumbents from both parties facing no opposition and a Democratic majority all but […]
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State board strips pension from Finneran
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEMORE THAN FIVE YEARS after former House Speaker Thomas Finneran pled guilty to obstruction of justice, the State Retirement Board on Thursday voted to strip the […]
Posted inEnvironment, State House News Service
Boston ranks 9th in clean tech
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEBuoyed by its academic research centers, Boston ranks among the top 10 metro regions in the country for its use and development of clean technology, though it […]
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Former prosecutor to head drug lab case review
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Former Suffolk County prosecutor David Meier will lead a new central office set up to review the thousands of criminal cases potentially tainted by a state […]
