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Gov. Charlie Baker's $39.55 billion budget proposal was filed Wednesday and a hearing schedule on the spending plan emerged late Friday. It will take lawmakers From Boston to Amherst, Methuen, Springfield, Medford, and Everett and back to Boston again. Hearings begin Tuesday at the State House where
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STATE HOUSE — Facing the pressure of a ballot question and without a guarantee that he can wrestle enough support for charter school expansion, Senate President Stanley Rosenberg said Wednesday that a new group of senators will try to write a charter school reform bill that could clear that branch later
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BOSTON — Advocates in favor of lifting the legislative cap on the number of charter schools allowed to operate in Massachusetts swarmed Beacon Hill on Tuesday to lobby lawmakers and received an assist from Gov. Charlie Baker in the process. Clutching an oversized binder stuffed with the signatures of 25,000
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STATE HOUSE — House Democrats put up a unified front on Wednesday against Republican-led efforts to reinsert into a major opioid abuse prevention bill controversial measures backed by Gov. Charlie Baker to limit opioid prescription sizes and allow hospitals to hold overdose patients involuntarily. The House voted unanimously 149-0 on Wednesday
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STATE HOUSE — Buoyed by recent wins at the ballot box and confidence that voters will approve yet another major law in November, marijuana activists on Wednesday told lawmakers that their opportunity to craft legislation to legalize marijuana on their own terms is now. "The issue facing lawmakers today is
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STATE HOUSE — The Massachusetts House on Wednesday morning gave initial approval to a bill aimed at reducing opioid abuse and deaths, setting the stage for consideration in the afternoon of nearly 80 amendments. Aimed at curbing substance abuse and making addiction treatment easier to access, the bill sets a seven-day
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BOSTON — There is "some urgency" for the Legislature to weigh in on the legality and regulation of daily fantasy sports and online gaming, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission concluded in a white paper on the relatively-new form of sports wagering. "Right now, it appears to us that the
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Could Friday be the day Administration and Finance Secretary Kristen Lepore brings her scalpel, or will it be a machete, to work to carve up the fiscal 2016 budget? Emergency mid-year budget cuts seem inevitable at this point given the signals coming from the administration, despite December revenues putting the
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