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BOSTON — MBTA staff is considering a complete replacement of the Green Line fleet in the next decade or so, a roughly $1 billion procurement that generated some words of caution from the T's control board on Monday. "Right now I think staff's recommendation for the
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BOSTON — As health insurers sat before state officials Monday to explain the math behind their rate increases, several pointed to an Affordable Care Act program and pharmaceutical spending — including six-figure price tags for annual supplies of some specialty drugs — as major cost drivers. The Division of Insurance called on Massachusetts
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BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday slashed nearly $50 million from the state budget to partially close what his administration identified as a $320 million gap between projected spending and revenues through end of the fiscal year. The emergency budget cuts, which come at the half-way point in the fiscal
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Could Friday be the day Administration and Finance Secretary Kristen Lepore brings her scalpel, or will it be a machete, to work to carve up the fiscal 2016 budget? Emergency mid-year budget cuts seem inevitable at this point given the signals coming from the administration, despite December revenues putting the
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Massachusetts residents will hear about the state of its biggest city, Boston, and the state of the Commonwealth during the same week. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, whose initial State of the City explored a now defunct bid to host the 2024 summer Olympics, returns to Symphony Hall on Tuesday, Jan.
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STATE HOUSE — With President Barack Obama taking heat over his executive actions on gun safety, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday blamed Congressional Republicans for impeding "even the smallest reforms" and urged voters to challenge every candidate running for office on what they plan to do to
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BOSTON – Boston Children's Hospital is the place to be Thursday morning. Gov. Charlie Baker, Speaker Robert DeLeo, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash, Health and Human Service Secretary Marylou Sudders and executives from the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership are all expected to turn up
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STATE HOUSE — Special elections to fill a vacant Senate seat on the South Shore and another soon-to-be vacant seat in Greater Boston will be scheduled for May 10, according to Senate President Stanley Rosenberg's office. Rosenberg and Minority Leader Bruce Tarr issued a joint statement on Wednesday afternoon