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STATE HOUSE — A new version of the state's prescription monitoring system is scheduled to go live next week after more than $6 million in upgrades, according to the Massachusetts Medical Society, which described the program as a key tool to fight misuse of prescription drugs. The statewide physicians
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STATE HOUSE — MBTA inventory workers giving a tour around the central warehouse earlier this summer paused for a moment, moving to the side of an enclosed alley to make room for a forklift passing through. The hallway is the only indoor connection between the loading dock and the main warehouse,
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STATE HOUSE — Seven experts with experience in marijuana policy, including legal, medical and business types, will help a group of 20 Massachusetts voters next week dive headfirst into the debate over the marijuana legalization ballot question in order to give fellow voters easy to understand information on the initiative. The
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STATE HOUSE — Senate President Stanley Rosenberg distanced himself Wednesday afternoon from a comment made by his chief communications advisor on Twitter that seemed to call out Democrats who support charter school expansion for not being "real Democrats." The Democratic State Committee voted Tuesday night by acclamation to oppose
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SPRINGFIELD, MASS. — In the cybersecurity battles waged on servers and keyboards outside the public eye, Massachusetts is beefing up its bulkhead in Holyoke with a $5 million grant announced Wednesday that will be used to bolster computing technology used by the University of Massachusetts. The internet, which is increasingly home
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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