STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE CVS PHARMACY will require its staff to check the state’s prescription monitoring program database before filling certain abuse-associated opioid prescriptions under a newly announced settlement with […]
Healey cuts deal with CVS on opioids
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Plan B for a pipeline
ONE OF THE BIG MYSTERIES on Beacon Hill is how Gov. Charlie Baker is going to accomplish one of his top remaining energy priorities – building a new natural gas […]
Posted inThe Download
Not very candid camera talk from police union
If the topic weren’t so serious, the situation would be laughable. In the wake of rising national concern over police conduct, in particular in dealings in the black community, law […]
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Baker says DCR suspensions send right message
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Wednesday applauded one of his cabinet secretaries for handing out one-week suspensions without pay to the top two officials at the Department of Conservation and Recreation […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Politics
DeLeo pays Mintz another $100,000
HOUSE SPEAKER ROBERT DELEO’S campaign committee paid $100,000 in legal fees at the end of March to the same Boston law firm that represented him previously in his legal battles […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Baker is right; we need gas pipeline
Gov. Charlie Baker is right to push for a new natural gas pipeline. His support for renewable energy – solar and wind – is fully compatible with his support for […]
Posted inState House News Service, The Download
Paul LePage, a solitary man
Who does Maine Gov. Paul LePage remind you of? If you said no one, go to the head of the class. While some have compared the bombastic LePage to the […]
Posted inEnvironment
Firm pays $5.5m to resolve Plum Island concerns
A BOSTON ENGINEERING FIRM on Tuesday agreed to pay $5.5 million to settle allegations that it failed to make sure contractors complied with the company’s own design specifications in building […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
Rivera to LePage: Your comments help no one
The following is a response from Lawrence Mayor Daniel Rivera to Maine Gov. Paul LePage’s comments about where the opioids causing problems in Maine are coming from. PAUL LEPAGE, the governor […]
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Wynn Palace off to slow start
It’s been open only a week — so it’s still very early — but already there are concerns that the new $4.2 billion Wynn Palace casino and hotel in Macau […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
LePage: Drugs in Maine come from Lowell, Lawrence
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE MAINE GOV. PAUL LEPAGE, a second-term Republican who has become a lightning rod in the debate over drugs and race, did not shy away Monday from […]
Posted inEnvironment, State House News Service
MIT dean talks fusion with govs, premiers
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AN ACADEMIC’S IDEAS about what the future might hold inspired Gov. Charlie Baker to invite him to speak to Canadian premiers and New England governors. Speaking […]
Posted inEnvironment
Baker still wants new natural gas pipeline
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER is continuing to push for a new natural gas pipeline into the region, but at a conference on Monday with fellow New England governors and Canadian premiers […]
Posted inEducation, Opinion
Why Question 2 grassroots opposition is growing
I HAVE SPENT much of my adult life supporting local political movements and promoting direct voter contact as the best way to win elections. I like to think I know […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
AIM scorecard tells “tale of two chambers”
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A MAJOR BUSINESS association gave Senate President Stan Rosenberg its lowest score this election cycle, and criticized the Senate’s work in the current legislative session. “While […]
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Standing on principle
They throw the ball, hit the ball, kick the ball, bounce the ball, and stop the puck. The fact they do it better than 99.9 percent of the world is […]
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Trump’s phony appeal to blacks
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE Donald Trump is a Machiavellian lout whose overblown xenophobic tendencies have lately inveighed upon race — specifically black Americans. His bullying of black people began recently with […]
Posted inEducation, Politics
Warren as school choice champion
WHEN ASKED ON Thursday about the November ballot question to raise the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts, Sen. Elizabeth Warren sounded a note of caution about the initiative. “You […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Time to turn page on natural gas
AS REPORTED LAST WEEK, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a utility-proposed cost-recovery scheme – the “pipeline tax” that would have helped finance Spectra’s Access Northeast project – violated […]
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Episode 16: Healey declares success on gun ban
It’s been more than a month since Attorney General Maura Healey announced her crackdown on sales of assault weapons she said are in violation of the 1998 state law barring […]
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The Codcast: Healey declares success on gun ban
It’s been more than a month since Attorney General Maura Healey announced her crackdown on sales of assault weapons she said are in violation of the 1998 state law barring […]
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Sanders group accused of breaking law
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE, a conservative non-profit that has established itself as a foil to Democratic lawmakers on Beacon Hill, believes the new organization formed by […]
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‘Encampment’ moved off Boston Common
THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT last week evicted from the Boston Common a fairly large group of people who had been sleeping and hanging out for many weeks on the grass […]
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Bernie’s Bay State army mobilizes
FOR ANYONE WHO THINKS the Bernie-or-Bust movement is dead, think again, at least if you live in Massachusetts. Our Revolution, US Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new initiative to inspire and promote […]