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If the Transportation and Climate Initiative is enacted, ride sharing app drivers would feel the impact. The proposal, a 12-state pact of New England and Mid-Atlantic states, would implement fees on fuel providers based on their carbon emissions. The revenue is supposed to go towards funding public transportation. For drivers,
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Jay McMahon is fed up with excessive taxation in Massachusetts, and he wants to do something about it. The 66-year-old lawyer from Bourne, who earned the Republican nomination for Attorney General in 2018 but lost to the incumbent, Maura Healey, is running to replace fellow Republican Vinny deMacedo in the
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By Michael P. Norton State House News Service With about seven months left until the September 1 Democratic primary, U.S. Senator Edward Markey can count on 20 influential mayors to help him as he tries to fend off a strong challenge from U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III.
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With Senator Bernie Sanders currently leading Democratic presidential polls in Iowa and New Hampshire — and with caucuses and the primary in those states less than a month away — it's time to start paying attention to what a Sanders presidency would mean for the stock market. Several prominent money
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Previously rejected by Massachusetts lawmakers, Safe Communities Act proponents made their case for more than seven hours at Gardner Auditorium in the State House on Friday as to why the state should not respect federal immigration law. The bill aims to prevent Massachusetts law enforcement and court personnel from asking
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Massachusetts is in a dangerous situation. Within the next few months, Governor Charlie Baker may impose a fee on fuel providers that would add up to 17 cents a gallon on gasoline – for starters. (He claims he can do it on his own.) Around the same time, Democratic state legislators
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During his State of the Commonwealth address on Tuesday night, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker set a lofty goal for net-zero carbon emissions in 30 years without a plan to do it. Reactions are mixed. Baker's pledge is more ambitious than the one then-Governor Deval Patrick made in 2008.
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President Donald Trump plans to become the first president to address the March for Life in Washington D.C. in person on Friday. Trump announced via Twitter on Wednesday night that he plans to attend the rally on the Washington Mall before the march.
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