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BOSTON – The fate of the cost-burdened Green Line Extension depends in large part on the new budget that will be presented to transportation overseers at a meeting Monday. Last August, Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack paused the trolley line extension to Somerville and Medford, warning that the prior cost estimate of
Massachusetts
STATE HOUSE — The state's political history being what it is, the Massachusetts Republican Party hopes to make modest electoral gains at the state level this year, favoring a targeted strategy rather than casting the kind of wide net that has blown up in its face before. Despite Gov.
Massachusetts
STATE HOUSE — Massachusetts shoppers would be able to buy craft beers and spirits at farmers markets — but not take those bottles or any other purchases home in a plastic bag — under a bill approved Thursday by the Senate. An omnibus bill (S 2171) that passed the Senate on a 36-1
Massachusetts
STATE HOUSE — Despite sluggish tax collections for the state's largest revenue month appearing to put the state's budget in a squeeze, Gov. Charlie Baker has no plans to impose another round of emergency cuts to keep the state's budget in balance with only two
Maura Healey
STATE HOUSE — Gov. Charlie Baker is slated to deliver six commencement speeches this year, according to communications from various universities, including an address at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y., where his son is graduating. Other speakers preparing to deliver commencement addresses in Massachusetts as this academic year comes to
Massachusetts
BOSTON — After tossing trout into Jamaica Pond on Wednesday, Gov. Charlie Baker heaved aside his earlier notion that the Republican presidential nomination has not yet been decided. The expected showdown between the likely Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton means the governor will not vote for the
Massachusetts
STATE HOUSE — In the wake of the suspension of Kinder Morgan's major natural gas pipeline project in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the Baker administration's energy chief on Tuesday stressed that "incremental" increased natural gas capacity continues to be a necessary component of its plan
Massachusetts
BOSTON – If efforts to repeal Common Core education standards succeed and the state returns to the old approach used with the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, or MCAS, tests in place before 2010, it may find itself in good company. In Michigan, a state Senate committee has advanced a bill that