STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE START of next year’s baseball season may be in jeopardy, but the turnstiles will be turning again at Fenway Park when it is expected to reopen in January as a COVID-19 booster clinic 10 months after it closed its doors as one of the state’s first mass vaccination sites. Gov. […]
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Senate Dems move Rollins nomination forward
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE DEMOCRATS IN THE US SENATE took a major step forward toward confirmation of Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins to become the next top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts, narrowly voting on Thursday to bring her nomination forward to the full Senate. Rollins’s nomination has been shelved in the US Senate Judiciary […]
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Negotiators reach ARPA spending bill deal
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE HOUSE AND SENATE leaders said Tuesday night that they had struck a deal to spend $4 billion in American Rescue Plan Act and state tax surplus funds, concluding a two-week negotiation that spilled over into the Legislature’s end-of-year recess. House Ways and Means Chair Aaron Michlewitz and Senate Ways and Means […]
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Lawmakers don’t get ARPA spending bill done
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE HOUSE AND SENATE will go into their mid-session recess without finalizing a plan to spend close to $4 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funding and state surplus tax dollars, giving up on the prospects for a deal Wednesday as Democrats in both branches remained too far apart to cement a […]
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Revised map puts Fall River, New Bedford in separate districts
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE FALL RIVER and New Bedford would remain in different Congressional districts under a revised map released on Monday by legislative leaders that disregarded the pressure being applied by some activists and lawmakers, including US Rep. William Keating, to unite the two South Coast cities. The redistricting plan proposes to adjust the boundaries […]
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Senate adds 6th majority-minority district in Brockton
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AFTER SOLICITING feedback over the past week on draft redistricting maps for the Legislature, House and Senate leaders on Tuesday finalized revised plans that would add a sixth majority-minority Senate district that covers Brockton and strengthen the majority-minority status of House districts in New Bedford and Framingham. The revised maps would […]
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Baker not worried about staff shortages due to vaccine mandate
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE WITH LESS THAN A MONTH until his vaccination mandate for state employees takes effect, Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday he was not worried about creating staffing shortages at the State Police or other agencies where employees may decide not to follow the governor’s directive. “I think we’re going to get people […]
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Report: T faces ‘fiscal calamity’ in few years
AS CANDIDATES for governor and mayor of Boston tout plans for fare-free public transit before the end of the decade, a new report suggests the MBTA could be facing a “fiscal calamity” in a just a few years, needing $1.25 billion in new annual revenue just to meet operating and capital needs. The Massachusetts Taxpayers […]
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Nangle gets 15 months in prison
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A FEDERAL JUDGE sentenced former Rep. David Nangle to 15 months in prison on Wednesday after the Lowell Democrat pleaded guilty earlier this year to illegally using campaign funds to fund a lifestyle that included golf club memberships and casino trips to Connecticut, and lying to banks about his debt to […]
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Classes in Melrose already quarantined
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE MELROSE HAS already quarantined at least two classrooms for a COVID-19 outbreak, but Gov. Charlie Baker said Wednesday a return to remote learning as an option for school districts is not under consideration. “Schools have a certain number of days baked into their calendar that they are allowed to miss and […]