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STATE HOUSE — University of Massachusetts students working this summer to pay for college could face a higher financial mountain to climb in the fall. After freezing tuition for two straight years and then increasing it 5 percent last year, UMass appears poised to raise tuition and fees by rates that
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STATE HOUSE — A deal regarding transgender individuals in places of public accommodation, such as restaurants, locker rooms and pools, was struck Wednesday between House and Senate negotiators. The compromise (S 2407) would allow transgender individuals to use the facilities that match their gender identity, and not necessarily their anatomical sex.
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STATE HOUSE — Just hours after the Supreme Judicial Court cleared the way for a marijuana legalization ballot initiative to go to voters in November, the group working to legalize cannabis turned in what it said is enough signatures to secure its slot on the Nov. 8 ballot. Just after noon,
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STATE HOUSE — Cape Wind's long-running quest to establish a wind farm on the Nantucket Sound hit another hitch Tuesday as a three-judge federal Appeals Court panel reversed lower court decisions that had found regulators complied with environmental and endangered species laws in permitting the project. Cape Wind celebrated
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STATE HOUSE — A group of senators plans to travel in the fall to explore strategies used by other states to keep health care costs in check, Senate President Stanley Rosenberg said Tuesday. The plan is in its early stages, with the destinations and the roster of lawmakers who will attend
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A compromise transgender protections bill could emerge from a conference committee and land on Gov. Charlie Baker's desk this week, Senate President Stanley Rosenberg said Tuesday. The six lawmakers who are negotiating House and Senate versions of the bill banning discrimination against transgender people in public accommodations met
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Members of the House Ways and Means Committee over the holiday weekend were advancing land bills affecting Revere, South Boston and Chicopee as well as a major economic development bill and legislation dealing with older adults, regional public health and simulcasting. In addition to its funding provisions, including $500 million
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STATE HOUSE — A citizens-backed initiative petition that sought to end the state's use of Common Core learning standards was improperly certified by Attorney General Maura Healey and is now ineligible for the November ballot, according to a Supreme Judicial Court ruling on Friday. The decision "will prevent