STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE PILGRIM NUCLEAR POWER STATION in Plymouth will shut down by June 1, 2019, its owners announced Tuesday morning, citing “poor market conditions.” Pilgrim owner Entergy Corporation […]
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DeLeo backs north-south rail link
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE SAYING IT WOULD BE A “TERRIBLE MISTAKE” for the state to embark upon an expansion of South Station at the expense of a rail tunnel linking […]
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DeLeo prefers omnibus energy bill
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE HOUSE SPEAKER ROBERT DELEO said he wants to avoid a piecemeal approach to energy law changes and would prefer to deal with them all in a […]
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Baker files Canadian hydroelectricity bill
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Thursday filed procurement legislation to boost the state’s supply of hydropower, presumably from Canada, a goal that the governor says will increase […]
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Senate approves tweaked T control board
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE MASSACHUSETTS SENATE late Thursday night agreed to put the MBTA under the management of a fiscal control board, tucking that measure into a $38.1 billion […]
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Baker proposes T funding hike
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE STATE TAXPAYERS WILL further subsidize the struggling MBTA under Gov. Charlie Baker’s budget proposal, which calls for a $64.5 million increase in funding for the agency, […]
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DeLeo says he didn’t trade jobs for votes
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE House Speaker Robert DeLeo said he never traded jobs for votes in 2007 and 2008 when court testimony indicates he offered lawmakers the opportunity to make […]
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Bills pass, then idle in legislative limbo
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE In the amount of time it’s taken for Beacon Hill Democrats not to reach agreement on veterans’ services and drug compounding pharmacy regulation bills, Roz Savage, […]
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Gun group critical of report for DeLeo
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE The state’s largest gun owners group released a critique on Tuesday of a task force’s recommendations to reduce gun violence, concluding that experts appointed by House […]
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Target: Data breach could affect 40 million
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Target, the major retailer with locations throughout Massachusetts, confirmed Thursday “unauthorized access to payment card data” that may have impacted 40 million credit and debit card […]
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Baker, Polito to run as GOP team
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker on Tuesday tethered his hopes to take back the Corner Office to a former state representative from Shrewsbury, joining Karyn Polito […]
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Fact-checking Patrick’s health care article
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEGov. Deval Patrick is bullish about the 2006 health care access law, the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act, and a 2012 state law to control cost increases. […]
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Record MCAS scores but news not all good
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICEFourteen Massachusetts schools designated “underperforming” in 2010 have met three-year turnaround goals and will shed their Level 4 status, but four turnaround schools could fall into state […]
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Vermont Yankee plant to close next year
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Citing financial factors including lower natural gas prices, Entergy announced plans Tuesday to close and begin a decades-long process to decommission the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power […]
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Cabral: Administration using ‘scare tactics’
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE SENIOR TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS on Tuesday cautioned that major expansion projects prioritized by the Patrick administration could be in jeopardy if tolls on the western portion of […]
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Lobbyists win challenge to Galvin requirement
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ASSERTING THAT PART of Secretary of State William Galvin’s arguments made “absolutely no sense,” a Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of lobbyists who went […]
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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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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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Menino goes to rehab; diagnosed with diabetes
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICENEWLY DIAGNOSED WITH diabetes, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has been transferred to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital following a month-long stay at Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he was […]
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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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No election highlights for Massachusetts GOP
Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the number of House Republicans members scheduled to be sworn in on Jan. 2, 2013. The correct number is 29, down […]
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State makes plans for revenue falloff
State House News Service In the face of economic risksand uncertainty three months into the fiscal year, the Patrick administration is capping full-time equivalent employees at current levels and taking […]
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Patrick signs sentencing reform bill
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Gov. Deval Patrick on Thursday morning signed legislation eliminating parole eligibility for certain repeat violent offenders and making about 600 non-violent drug offenders immediately eligible for […]
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Senate passes food pricing bill
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE With just two senators present, the Senate on Monday morning approved a bill that food stores in Massachusetts have been pressing unsuccessfully for a decade. Under […]