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Boston's mayor is looking for a Youth Poet Laureate for the state's largest city.
The position, which has never existed before, would "be an advocate for poetry, language, and the arts," according to a written statement released this week by Mayor Marty Walsh's press office.
Some of the same interest groups that successfully pushed for a $15-an-hour minimum wage and other concessions to organized labor in Massachusetts are now looking to increase taxes on businesses in the state to pay for transportation improvements.
Raise Up Massachusetts, which supports a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would allow taxing people with incomes of $1 million or more at a significantly higher rate than other people, is calling for a tiered tax structure for businesses, so that businesses that make more money would pay taxes at a higher rate than those that don't.