budget cuts

Massachusetts

State government waiting for the ax to fall

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

umass

Budget cuts and tuition hike for UMass

By Colin A. Young STATE HOUSE, BOSTON Gov. Charlie Baker's veto of more than $5 million in University of Massachusetts funding "presents challenges" for the state's five-campus system, its administration says, and university officials hope legislators will overturn the cut.