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The Massachusetts legislature and Governor Maura Healey put a new restriction on the state's emergency shelter system, but it won't fix the problem. While pouring another $426 million into the system, on Thursday state legislators and the governor also imposed a nine-month limit on how long
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By Michael P. Norton State House News Service The Massachusetts House of Representatives voted 117-36 and the Massachusetts Senate 29-9 to approve a supplemental budget steering $251 million more into the family shelter system and calling for new limits on how long families may stay in shelters. The agreement announced
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By Sam Doran State House News Service
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By Colin A. Young State House News Service
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Massachusetts state legislators are working on yet another bloated budget, this time for the upcoming fiscal year 2025. With more than $57.9 billion in the proposed House budget and various non-monetary provisions, state legislators do not seem interested in embracing fiscal responsibility anytime soon.
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By Katie Lannan | GBH News and Gintautas Dumcius, CommonWealth Beacon A SLIGHT MAJORITY of Massachusetts residents support a potential ballot question that would grant state Auditor Diana DiZoglio the power to probe the inner workings of her former colleagues in the Massachusetts Legislature, according to a CommonWealth Beacon/GBH News
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The police alternative department in Amherst has records of three 911 calls during a 78-day period during this past winter despite having a director, an administrative assistant, and eight full-time responders costing about $641,520. A staff member for CRESS – which stands for Community Responders for Equity, Safety, and Service
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President Joe Biden has a much smaller lead among young voters over former President Donald Trump than he did this time four years ago, according to a poll by the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Biden, a Democrat, leads Trump, a Republican, by
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