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STATE HOUSE — House Speaker Robert DeLeo said Tuesday he regrets not getting a charter school bill done and thinks the complex and controversial education policy issue shouldn't have been left to be settled at the ballot box this November. Question 2 on November's ballot will ask
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BOSTON — The MBTA faces an additional financial hurdle this year as projected sales tax revenue for the transit agency has dropped about $32 million, increasing the urgency to find new cost savings. Layoffs have not been ruled out.
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STATE HOUSE — Education and religious advocates on Monday called for the relocation of a portrait depicting the state's twenty-third governor, referring to him as "a symbol of bigotry" for his party's support of a constitutional amendment they say restricts school choice. A member of
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STATE HOUSE — The economic development bill filed late Sunday and enacted right around midnight Monday does not include an expansion of a tax incentive aimed at helping low-income workers or authorization for the Massachusetts Lottery to expand into online gaming, according to the lead House negotiator on the bill. Both
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STATE HOUSE — House and Senate lawmakers came tantalizingly close to reaching a deal that would have limited the use of non-compete agreements between employers and employees, but couldn't overcome differences over how compensation for workers who sign such contracts would be negotiated. House and Senate leaders had been
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STATE HOUSE — Attorney General Maura Healey would be stripped of her authority to regulate firearms under a bill filed Friday afternoon by the state Senate minority leader. Sen. Bruce Tarr of Gloucester filed his "act to protect due process and strengthen public safety" 12 days after Healey announced
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The campaign to legalize adult marijuana use in Massachusetts announced endorsements Thursday from 10 state lawmakers, who said a ballot question's passage in the fall would generate new tax revenues and end marijuana prohibition laws that they called a failure. "It's time we got this
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MassHealth and Medicare each provided primary health insurance coverage for more than 1 million Massachusetts residents from December 2013 to March 2016, while around 4 million Bay Staters were covered by private commercial insurance, according to a new report from a state agency. More than 160,000 of those covered