Critics Question Massachusetts’ Role In Picking Economic Winners And Losers
MassDevelopment backed $4.65 billion in investment across 409 projects in fiscal 2025, raising questions about business subsidies, crony capitalism and job creation.
MassDevelopment backed $4.65 billion in investment across 409 projects in fiscal 2025, raising questions about business subsidies, crony capitalism and job creation.
GBH News faces questions about campaign finance disclosure rules for paid ballot-question ads as a conservative media critic challenges its political coverage.
Anthropic employees donated more than $64,000 to Massachusetts candidates and political committees as lawmakers weighed new AI safety rules.
Massachusetts will spend another $81.4 million on Big Dig debt in fiscal 2027, with payments on the troubled highway project scheduled to continue through 2038.
A Massachusetts Senate climate bill would ban plastic bags, impose new consumer fees, fund local projects, and authorize nearly $4 billion in possible borrowing.
The Massachusetts Senate took a more liberal stance than the House on climate, zoning, and other progressive priorities during the latest legislative session.
Massachusetts lawmakers included millions in pork-barrel spending in the $63.42 billion state budget. Here are 10 of the worst examples.
Governor Maura Healey has backed statewide phonics standards, graduation requirements and other education reforms opposed by the Massachusetts Teachers Association, drawing praise from some education reform advocates.
Major companies are cutting jobs or ending operations in Massachusetts, prompting concerns about costs, competitiveness and the state economy.
Thousands of indigent defendants last month did not have an attorney defending them, undermining their constitutional right to have representation and risking the dismissal of as many criminal cases covering a wide range of charges, according to court filings reviewed by the NewBostonPost.
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