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By Michael P. Norton STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE The Massachusetts House of Representatives on Tuesday night passed health care reform legislation that uses $337 million in new assessments to stabilize community hospitals and charts a new course to help the Legislature make decisions about scope of practice changes for medical
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The people of Massachusetts have dodged a missile on a technicality. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Monday that a referendum asking voters to approve a 4-percentage-point income tax surcharge on incomes of $1 million or more violates the state's constitution because it links three items that aren&
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A proposed referendum asking voters to approve an income surtax on millionaires won't go to the ballot this year, because the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that it violates the state constitution. The court ruled 5-2 on Monday that the ballot question, which sought a 4-percentage-point surtax
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The stark juxtaposition of the celebratory opening of America's new embassy to Israel in Jerusalem and deadly Palestinian riots in Gaza has led some to conclude that one has something to do with the other. As New York Times columnist Max Fisher put it in a tweet, "
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Fighting off "something for nothing" ballot questions that would hurt business owners could cost as much as $10 million apiece because the proposals are so popular, an advocate for Massachusetts business owners said. "The long-term lesson may be a fundamental change in the way employers approach ballot
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By Katie Lannan STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE An eight-way race for a district that last elected a new representative in the 1970s. A former lawmaker looking to oust an incumbent and make his return after serving federal time for voter fraud. The Republican treasurer candidate's husband vying to
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A leading Democratic candidate for an open Congressional seat in the Merrimack Valley is sponsoring a resolution calling on Congress to limit the president's authority to use nuclear weapons. State Senator Barbara L'Italien (D-Andover) is the lead sponsor of SD 248, a proposed Massachusetts Senate resolution
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State House News Service Negotiators trying to assemble a "grand bargain" to settle sales tax reduction, paid family, and medical leave benefits, and a minimum wage increase appear on the verge of receiving a piece of information that's potentially critical to their talks. The Massachusetts Supreme
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