State Auditor Diana DiZoglio has drained her campaign account to pay for the signature-gathering effort to put a proposed law on the ballot allowing her office to audit the Legislature.
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Posted inOpinion
Beacon Hill dawdling comes with consequences
Despite months of opportunity to work with Gov. Maura Healey to accommodate migrants and other families and pregnant women under the state’s right-to-shelter law, lawmakers dawdled, seemingly content to let Healey take the political heat.
Posted inState Government
Lawmakers fail to reach deal on shelter funds
THE LEGISLATURE adjourned early Thursday morning with no agreement between the two branches on an omnibus close-out spending bill that included $250 million to keep the state’s emergency shelter system afloat.
Posted inOpinion
It’s time to protect gig workers and consumers
Gig economy companies like Uber and Instacart are exploiting workers by misclassifying them as independent contracts and not employees, which limits the employment protections they deserve to have.
Posted inState Government
Conflicting goals on Everett soccer stadium
The Legislature is on the brink of signing off on a plan that clears the way for the Kraft Group to build a soccer stadium for the New England Revolution along the Mystic River in Everett, but the behind-the-scenes sausage-making that has brought the plan to the goal crease deserves cheers or jeers, depending on who you listen to.
Posted inArts and Culture, State Government
State seal and motto commission punts to Legislature
Although the commission raised several possibilities for the seal and motto, the panel punted a decision to the Legislature. How that decision will be made is unclear at the moment.
Posted inHousing
Sluggish housing production hammers Greater Boston
Three years after the start of the pandemic, rents are soaring and housing production is still nowhere near what it needs to be to meet demand, according to the new Greater Boston Housing Report Card from the Boston Foundation.
Posted inImmigration, State Government
House, Senate at odds on shelter spending, Everett soccer stadium
The main points of contention between the House and Senate are how the $250 million needed to keep the state’s emergency shelter system afloat should be spent and whether the Legislature should do a favor for Robert Kraft.
Posted inPolitics
New AFL-CIO president Chrissy Lynch on the changing face of labor
Chrissy Lynch is the Massachusetts AFL-CIO’s first female head, succeeding Steven Tolman this fall to be the first new president in more than a decade to lead the 800-organization federation.
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Campbell says DiZoglio lacks legal authority to audit Legislature
Attorney General Andrea Campbell concludes the state auditor lacks the legal authority to audit the Legislature without its consent.