THE COST OF treating her Type 1 diabetes for 15 years has taken a toll on Claire Clendenen’s life. Clendenen, who works in public health in Boston, just recently paid […]
Bill tackles insulin affordability
Posted inThe Download
Parsing words at the Mass. Gaming Commission
MASSACHUSETTS LAWMAKERS MADE it pretty clear in 2014 that they wanted to protect midsize theaters from having to compete against event venues run by casinos, inserting into the gaming law […]
Posted inArts and Culture
Parsing words at the Mass. Gaming Commission
MASSACHUSETTS LAWMAKERS MADE it pretty clear in 2014 that they wanted to protect midsize theaters from having to compete against event venues run by casinos, inserting into the gaming law that […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
House leader questions implementation of criminal justice law
THE TOP HOUSE lawmaker on criminal justice issues is accusing the Baker administration of “outright resistance” to implementing the state’s criminal justice reform law. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Michael Day, […]
Posted inTransportation
MBTA nearing a financial cliff
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE MBTA might inch to the edge of a financial “cliff” as soon as fiscal year 2024, when the agency will have exhausted all of the […]
Posted inHealth Care
Massachusetts will drop 3,700 from COVID death count
MASSACHUSETTS WILL REVISE its COVID-19 death count downwards by around 3,700 people as the state shifts to using a new definition to count deaths attributed to coronavirus. “We believe […]
Posted inHealth Care
Eating disorders are ravaging young people
AN EATING DISORDER epidemic is growing. Clinicians are seeing eating disorders in children at younger and younger ages, and now, due to the pandemic, eating disorders among teens are at an […]
Posted inThe Download
Lawmakers are revising road funding formula
THE HOUSE’S TRANSPORTATION policy leader pledged Wednesday that lawmakers will consider revising the state’s road and bridge funding formula, an indication that years of complaints by rural lawmakers may finally […]
Posted inGambling
Gaming Commission backs off oversight of Everett entertainment complex
THE MASSACHUSETTS GAMING Commission indicated on Thursday that it will not require a proposed entertainment complex across the street from Encore Boston Harbor to be subject to the commission’s regulatory […]
Posted inTransportation
Lawmakers are revising road funding formula
THE HOUSE’S TRANSPORTATION policy leader pledged Wednesday that lawmakers will consider revising the state’s road and bridge funding formula, an indication that years of complaints by rural lawmakers may finally […]
Posted inGambling
Encore tries to defuse concerns on concerts, expansion
ENCORE BOSTON HARBOR submitted a memorandum to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission on Wednesday trying to clear up confusion about concerts and other events held in its casino ballroom and its […]
Posted inOpinion
Why a real estate transfer tax is a bad idea
ONE POLICY that has recently garnered attention on Beacon Hill is the real estate transfer fee: a de facto new sales tax on real estate. The idea would be to […]
Posted inState House News Service, Uncategorized
House rejects gas tax suspension, pursuing ‘real relief’
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A $1.6 BILLION spending bill passed the Massachusetts House unanimously on Wednesday after representatives shot down a Republican bid to add in language that would have […]
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SJC hears life and death arguments in medical aid in dying case
THE STATE’S HIGHEST COURT on Wednesday heard oral arguments in an emotional and high-stakes case over whether a physician can prescribe lethal medication to a terminally ill patient. Several Supreme Judicial […]
Posted inThe Download
Tsarnaev again faces death penalty, but support for capital punishment dropping
IT’S PROBABLY THE highest profile capital punishment case in the country. And while it was an administration in Washington led by a Democratic president opposed to the death penalty that […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Tsarnaev again faces death penalty, but support for capital punishment dropping
IT’S PROBABLY THE highest profile capital punishment case in the country. And while it was an administration in Washington led by a Democratic president opposed to the death penalty that […]
Posted inTransportation
E-bikes, electric vehicles focus of clean transportation grants
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION on Tuesday awarded $5 million for “equitable clean transportation projects,” with a heavy focus on the deployment of electric bicycles in low-income communities and electrification of rideshare […]
Posted inTransportation
MBTA not among transit agencies splitting $2.2b in fed aid
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT on Monday announced $2.2 billion in aid to states to preserve transit jobs and pay for daily train and bus operations, but Massachusetts […]
Posted inOpinion
ARPA money needed for nature, open space
LAST FALL, the Massachusetts Legislature invested $4 billion of state and federal funds in a COVID recovery. The lawmakers’ priorities – support for essential workers, investments in housing and healthcare […]
Posted inPolitics
House pares down Baker budget bill to $1.6B
AS GOV. CHARLIE BAKER well knows, you don’t always get what you want – even in a state awash in money. The House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday released […]
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Hyde Park’s quirky commuter rail fare structure
The Fairmount, Readville, and Hyde Park commuter rail stations are all within roughly two miles of each other, yet the price to travel into Boston from each station varies dramatically. […]
Posted inTransportation
Hyde Park’s quirky commuter rail fare structure
THE FAIRMOUNT, Readville, and Hyde Park commuter rail stations are all within roughly two miles of each other, yet the price to travel into Boston from each station varies dramatically. […]
Posted inUncategorized
Decision, judgment in Brayton Pt. case
What follows is the decision and judgment by Land Court Judge Robert B. Foster. The decision was converted from a PDF to a Word document, so some formatting is a […]
Posted inEnvironment
Judge orders shutdown of Brayton Pt. scrap metal operation
A STATE LAND COURT JUDGE on Monday ordered a scrap metal operation at Brayton Point in Somerset to shut down within the next two weeks after concluding that the operation […]