BOSTON — Asking for more time to report on changes at the Department of Children and Families, Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday signed a spending bill that steers $120 million into the state rainy day fund and dedicates $27.8 million to opioid abuse treatment and prevention programs.
The bill calls on Baker's team to report to the Legislature by Nov. 17 on new or updated policies put in place at the Department of Children and Families over the past year to improve the safety of children it deals with. Saying that deadline doesn't give DCF enough time to complete its report, Baker returned that portion of the legislation to lawmakers with an amendment extending the deadline to file the report until the last day of February.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Harvard law professor Larry Lessig is ending his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
He blames the demise of his nearly three-month campaign on the Democratic Party, which he says leaves him "just shut out" of the primary debates. Lessig struggled to hit 1 percent in national polls, the necessary marker to qualify for the primary match-ups.
