BOSTON – With billions of dollars on the line, Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday that he hopes to renegotiate a federal Medicaid waiver with the Obama administration by this summer.
In October 2014, then-Gov. Deval Patrick secured a five-year deal with the Obama administration worth $41.4 billion, but it didn't fund the state's safety net health-care pool in the fourth and fifth years.
BOSTON – A third Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justice on Wednesday announced plans to retire before the next full session of the state's high court begins, prompting Gov. Charlie Baker to name a 12-member panel to help him pick replacements.
Justice Fernande Duffly, who was appointed to the high court by then-Gov. Deval Patrick in 2011, will retire from the bench July 12, the court announced. In a statement, Duffly said she had planned to retire next year, but expedited her plans to help care for her husband. Duffly is the first Asian-American justice to serve on the court.
