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STATE HOUSE – Whether the judicial branch can fund the salary increases awarded by lawmakers last week appears to be a somewhat open question. The judiciary accounts for the bulk of the cost of the nearly $18 million package, which doles out raises to top members of the House and Senate,
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By Andy Metzger STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE STATE HOUSE, BOSTON — The group of House lawmakers who receive significantly larger paychecks than their rank-and-file peers is about to grow much larger if the pay-raise bill the governor vetoed Friday becomes law.
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STATE HOUSE – Helen Woodman Harrington, who epitomized the values of even-handedness and integrity the State House News Service still strives to uphold, died Monday at her beloved home in North Conway, N.H. She was 74. Woodman hired, trained and more importantly inspired more than a generation of reporters, who
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STATE HOUSE – House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Stanley Rosenberg would see their salaries increase by $45,000 a year and the governor's compensation package would grow by 65 percent under a comprehensive package of pay raises introduced by legislative leaders on Monday. The raises put forward
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By Matt Murphy and Colin A. Young STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Beacon Hill lawmakers waded into potentially treacherous political waters Thursday as they started the ball rolling on what could become significant pay raises for legislative leaders and statewide officeholders.
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STATE HOUSE – Companies that do not offer their employees health insurance would pay a $2,000 annual assessment per full-time worker to the state under a plan Gov. Charlie Baker plans to offer later this month to blunt the impact of escalating, enrollment-driven costs in the state's Medicaid
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ROXBURY, MASS., JAN. 12, 2017…..Without mentioning the mayor by name, Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson tore into what he said was Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's misplaced focus on the city's wealthy business community as he announced his mayoral bid at a rally in Dudley Square
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STATE HOUSE – The rest of the country may already think that Boston — the Hub of the Universe — runs on its own time. But Wednesday a legislative commission met to consider actually shifting the Bay State into a different time zone than the rest of the eastern seaboard. The commission, which