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STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, JAN. 4, 2017….Former state budget chief Jay Gonzalez has left his position as chief executive of the health insurer CeltiCare to explore a bid for governor in 2018, opening the door for someone from the Patrick-era of Democratic politics on Beacon Hill to challeng the popular
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STATE HOUSE — The leaders of both the House and Senate are on board with a six-month time frame for rewriting the state's marijuana laws after voters in November approved regulated sales of the intoxicating plant. In a brief hallway interview on Thursday, House Speaker Robert DeLeo concurred with
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STATE HOUSE – Massachusetts lawmakers are fast-tracking legislation to facilitate the expansion of a California biologics company into Worcester. The bill (H 4774), filed just earlier this month, emerged Tuesday morning from the House Ways and Means Committee and was whisked through the House by noon. Senate Majority Leader Harriette Chandler
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STATE HOUSE – Years before it became the centerpiece of a federal extortion case that rocked Boston City Hall, an outdoor music festival and its hiring practices were the subject of debate within the office of former Attorney General Martha Coakley. Boston Calling's offer to let music fans work
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STATE HOUSE – With Hillary Clinton's loss to President-elect Donald Trump still raw for Bay State Democrats, party leaders and electors on Monday – without mentioning Trump's name – rallied Clinton supporters to regroup and pick up where her campaign left off fighting for causes like "economic justice&
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STATE HOUSE – On the eve of marijuana legalization in Massachusetts, Secretary of Public Safety and Security Daniel Bennett on Wednesday sent an eight-page letter to law enforcement leaders around the state to help guide them as a number of once-criminal acts become perfectly legal. The first part of the state&
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STATE HOUSE – Rep. Shawn Dooley wants Massachusetts to play hard to get, at least when it comes to presidential politics. The Norfolk Republican last week filed a bill to change the way the Bay State metes out its Electoral College votes for presidential candidates to allow the 11 votes be
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STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, DEC. 5, 2016…..House and Senate leaders will make a decision in the coming weeks whether to push for a delay this month in key pieces of the marijuana legalization law without waiting for the next Legislature to come into session in January. "We've