“This is a significant proposed change involving two large medical providers, both in Massachusetts and nationally, with important implications for the delivery and cost of health care across Massachusetts,” HPC Director David Seltz said.
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Mariano to seek reelection to another term
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AS HE WORKS DEEPER into his fourth decade on Beacon Hill, House Speaker Ron Mariano confirmed Tuesday that he plans to run for reelection in 2024 and for another term as speaker in 2025, but declined to commit to serving out his next term, if reelected. “That remains to be seen,” […]
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Top Dems declare deal on tax relief
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE TOP HOUSE AND Senate Democrats have reached an agreement on a tax relief bill, and plan to send it to Gov. Maura Healey next week as an opening act for their fall session. The accord, announced without details in a two-sentence statement Thursday evening, could bring to end a debate that […]
Posted inHousing, State Government, State House News Service
Housing activists look to bond bill for funding, possible transfer fee
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE IT’S NOW eight months into Gov. Maura Healey’s administration and the wait continues for major proposals from the Corner Office to address perhaps the governor’s signature issue: housing affordability and production. Some people in the advocacy world feel that’s going to change soon, and want the governor to “go big” to […]
Posted inHousing, Immigration, State House News Service
Healey calls in National Guard to aid shelter effort
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE FACING A STEADY influx of migrants from other countries, Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday activated up to 250 National Guard members to provide basic services at emergency shelter hotels. Healey’s office announced the move Thursday afternoon, saying that her new executive order applies to locations that do not have a contracted […]
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Budget filed, headed for a vote
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE LEGISLATIVE NEGOTIATORS filed a compromise $56.2 billion annual state budget Sunday night, packing major education, transportation, and health care policy measures and spending into an overdue fiscal 2024 accord that is expected to win House and Senate approval on Monday. [Read the conference committee budget: Spending | Municipal and Regional Aid | Outside Sections] A tax […]
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House backs market-rate housing program
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE HOUSE came around on the idea of expanding a tax credit program designed to encourage much-needed housing production, just not in the legislative vehicle that Gov. Maura Healey and the Senate originally envisioned. Representatives on Thursday approved a mega-amendment to a fiscal 2023 spending bill that would lift the annual cap on […]
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Arroyo pays $3,000 in ethics case
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE BOSTON CITY Councilor Ricardo Arroyo has paid a $3,000 civil penalty and admitted to violating the conflict of interest law by continuing to represent his brother in a civil lawsuit against his brother and the city of Boston after he became a city councilor, according to ethics law regulators. The State […]
Posted inEnergy, State Government, State House News Service
Thong-wearing climate activists turn their cheeks in Senate
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THONG-WEARING climate activists intent on stopping fossil fuel infrastructure mooned senators and disrupted Thursday’s tax relief debate in the Massachusetts Senate. About an hour later, they were arrested and escorted out of the chamber. About eight local members of the international group Extinction Rebellion started shouting from the chamber’s public gallery […]
Posted inEconomy
Mass. economic growth slows, projected to go negative
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE MASSACHUSETTS SQUEAKED OUT a smidgen of economic growth in the first quarter of 2023, slowing substantially from its late 2022 growth rate, and analysts are predicting GDP declines in the second and third quarters. Gross domestic product here rose at a 0.1 percent annualized rate in the first quarter, after rising […]