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BOSTON – The Massachusetts state income tax rate will fall slightly in January, the third-to-last step in the tax rate's odyssey from 5.95 percent in 1999 to its potential nadir two years from now at the voter-approved level of 5 percent. Gov. Charlie Baker's budget office
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STATE HOUSE — A sticking point in the D.C. donnybrook that led to a 2013 government shutdown, the national debt ceiling has become a perennial catalyst for political brinkmanship in Washington. But Massachusetts has had its own debt ceiling since 1989, and the state is on track to hit it
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BOSTON – Late-night bus and subway service likely will be ended early next year, as members of the Fiscal and Management Control Board look for ways to cut costs at the deficit-ridden Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The $14-per-passenger cost was a chief reason cited for curtailing the service by members of
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STATE HOUSE — Special education students and English language learners enrolled at charter schools are more likely to earn higher scores on the state's standardized tests and reach certain other achievement markers than their peers in district schools, according to a study of Boston students presented Monday. The study,
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BOSTON — Halting a runaway Red Line subway train with 50 passengers aboard with no injuries drew praise for the two Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority workers who performed the feat from the T's control center last Thursday, stopping the driverless train in north Quincy by shutting off the power
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STATE HOUSE — Total emergency room use in Massachusetts dropped slightly in 2014, but visits associated with a behavioral health conditions rose sharply, according to preliminary Health Policy Commission findings. Early data from the commission's 2015 Cost Trends Report show a nearly 24 percent statewide increase in behavioral health-related
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The MBTA has notified several firms working on the over-budget Green Line Extension project that it is acting to end their current contracts, and the agency plans to install a new project manager as part of a restructuring of the project management team. The move comes after the MassDOT Board
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STATE HOUSE — More than a year after the Legislature passed a domestic violence prevention law, more than three-quarters of the new law's provisions have been fully implemented, according to a new report. The Governor's Council to Address Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence — reconstituted earlier this year