Taxes, Taxes, Taxes:  Governor Charlie Baker’s New $42.7 Billion Budget

Taxes, Taxes, Taxes:  Governor Charlie Baker’s New $42.7 Billion Budget

By Matt Murphy
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker filed a $42.7 billion budget on Wednesday that features the biggest overhaul to public education funding in decades and proposes new taxes on electronic nicotine products and on pharmaceutical manufacturers to help pay for opioid addiction services.

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Trump Government Shutdown Hurting Whales

John Cronin

Endangered right whales haven't been dying lately, but that might change because there's no one from the federal government to count them, according to environmentalists.

The partial shutdown of the federal government led to furloughing of employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, so the agency's whale count program has been suspended, according to an Associated Press story published in the Hampshire Daily Gazette, which covers Northampton, Massachusetts.

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