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STATE HOUSE — Attorney General Maura Healey's announcement Wednesday that she would step up enforcement of the state's assault weapons ban, focusing on what she described as "copycat" guns, swiftly generated backlash from gun owners, dealers and activists who are viewing the move as an
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STATE HOUSE — Presenting a broad reform agenda for the second year of the MBTA's Fiscal and Management Control Board's existence, Gov. Charlie Baker said the agency should shift its pension management to the state's fund managers and continue to look for opportunities to privatize
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Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth last month were awarded a patent for technology they say could reduce the costs of fishing vessel monitoring, a cost fisherman say threatens their livelihood, the school announced this week. Dr. Brian Rothschild, the retired founding head of the UMass-Dartmouth School of Marine
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STATE HOUSE — As the University of Massachusetts student swept the hallways of the Supreme Judicial Court during summer break in the early 1980s, he had no inkling that he would be angling to return to those hallways some three decades later. If David Lowy does work at Pemberton Square again,
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BEACHWOOD, OHIO — The Massachusetts delegation to the Republican National Convention needed little introduction to their guest on Tuesday morning. Everyone already knew his name. John Ratzenberger, better known as his mailman character Cliff Clavin from Cheers, has been a vocal proponent of vocational and technical education outside of his acting
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STATE HOUSE — Dozens of members of Congress have asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew for an investigation into the Chinese railcar company building Red and Orange line subway cars for the MBTA. The China Railroad Rolling Stock Corporation, or CRRC, has used subsidized financing from the Chinese government to
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STATE HOUSE — A quilt-work of penalties for parking in bike lanes would be replaced with a blanket statewide ticket of up to $100 under a bill that passed the House on Monday. The bill (H 3072) filed by Rep. David Rogers, a Cambridge Democrat, would bar drivers from parking or
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STATE HOUSE — Forty-three miles and four days after they set out on a march from Medway, hundreds of activists filled the State House Monday morning, chanting, "Stop the pipeline or the people will." The "People Over Pipelines" march took the demonstrators through communities including Norfolk, Walpole,