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BOSTON – Gov. Charlie Baker, who plans "a lot of level funding" in his second annual budget, said that by fiscal 2018 he will have weaned state government off the use of one-time revenue sources to balance spending. "We need to do all we can to make sure
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BOSTON – In the wake of a "parade of discontinuity" and low performance, the Southbridge Public Schools went into state receivership Tuesday by a unanimous Board of Elementary and Secondary Education vote, becoming the third district in Massachusetts to be removed from local control. "We have a school
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STATE HOUSE — Massachusetts women civilly committed for substance abuse treatment will no longer be sent to prison and instead will be referred to one of the 60 new state hospital beds slated to open this year under a law signed by Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday. "For the past
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STATE HOUSE — After Boston Mayor Marty Walsh proposed studying a $15-per-hour minimum wage for the state's largest city, House Speaker Robert DeLeo has expressed reluctance to see such a policy become law. Facing pressure from a ballot campaign, lawmakers in 2014 hiked the hourly minimum wage throughout the
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BOSTON — Bruce Tarr, the top Republican in the Massachusetts Senate, on Friday endorsed Ohio Gov. John Kasich for the GOP presidential nomination. Tarr, the Senate minority leader from Gloucester who has served in the upper chamber since 1995, said Kasich's 18 years of experience on the Armed Services
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BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker proposed an additional $83.5 million for vocational education Friday, including a $75 million five-year capital program in a jobs bill set to be filed next week and an additional $8.5 million in his annual budget. Both of Baker's initiatives would need to
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BOSTON – Following up on a 2010 law that critics say has been ineffective, the Massachusetts Senate on Thursday approved a ban on the use of hand-held cell phones and other electronic devices while driving. After an afternoon of debate on more than 20 amendments, the Senate passed the measure that
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BOSTON — Cost-cutting on the over-budget Green Line Extension project should be "on the side of brutal" and stakeholders "need to wrap their arms around that reality," the chairman of the MBTA's control board said Wednesday. "The cutbacks of scope really need to be