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The campaign trying to legalize marijuana possession and sale through the ballot this November has reserved airtime for TV advertisements, according to spokesman Jim Borghesani. "We're going to try to buy as much as we can," Borghesani told the News Service.
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STATE HOUSE — State education officials have signed a five-year, $150.8 million contract with a New Hampshire-based organization for the development and administration of a new statewide assessment that students are set to begin taking next spring. The contract with Measured Progress, the vendor for the existing MCAS exam, calls
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As the ballot question campaign to expand charter school access heats up, six groups have proposed opening new charter schools in Massachusetts and 12 existing charter schools want to increase enrollment, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced Monday. DESE will decide by mid-September which of the six groups
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STATE HOUSE — Republican leaders in the Massachusetts House and Senate are hardly rushing to endorse their party's presidential nominee. Quizzed about their stance on Donald Trump over the past few weeks, the House and Senate minority leaders and several lawmakers on their leadership teams declined to say whether
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Gov. Charlie Baker and Democratic legislative leaders have been holding near-daily bill signings, crowding together to tout the major laws they agreed to over the past two weeks. But the bipartisan glee over passage of five of the "big six" bills identified by Baker is not universal. While
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STATE HOUSE — Robert Cordy, whose last day as a member of the Supreme Judicial Court was Friday, will return to his former law firm, McDermott, Will & Emery, in October. After 15-plus years on the bench, Cordy plans to practice the same type of civil and criminal litigation that comprised
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BOSTON — Farmers are worried about their crops, firefighters are battling wild fires burning 8 inches underground, some streams have been reduced to a trickle and homeowners have watched their lawns dry to a pale brown color. Environmental science experts on Thursday agreed: much of Massachusetts is in the midst of
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STATE HOUSE — Embedded in the $1 billion economic development bill Gov. Charlie Baker signed Wednesday was a measure that could affect when morning begins in Massachusetts. Under the law, a bipartisan commission would spend some of the fall and winter studying the impacts of permanently shifting Bay State clocks onto