The coalition behind last year's successful push to guarantee earned sick time for Massachusetts workers has taken the first step on Tuesday toward amending the state's constitution to tax income over $1 million at a higher rate.
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON- A member of the council that vets judicial nominees asked Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday to consider decriminalizing heroin use by addicts and having the state take over the operation of methadone clinics as a strategy to "try something different" and get more drug addicts the treatment they need to recover.