STATE HOUSE — Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, describing sharply downgraded tax revenue estimates as "very sobering," predicted the changes will lead to "painful" spending cuts or level funding for programs that lawmakers feel strongly about supporting.
"Tax revenues have gone soft and we just have to deal with it and it's going to be very, very, very painful," Rosenberg said during an interview on WGBH's Boston Public Radio Thursday afternoon.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Antonin Scalia's unexpected death in February and the Senate's refusal to confirm a successor has left the Supreme Court in a bind on several closely divided cases.
Even as some justices have said the short-handed court will continue to get its work done, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has noted, "Eight is not a good number."
