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MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE leaders are attempting to chart a path forward on a pair of overlapping transparency fights. In the process, they seem to have set off an even greater conflagration.
House Democrats on Thursday pushed through a bill that would permanently constrain the power voters awarded the state auditor, by ballot measure, to probe the Legis...
THOUSANDS OF TEACHERS who have long asked the state for a second chance to opt in to an enhanced retirement benefit program may finally get their opportunity.
The Senate plans to take up a bill Thursday to address the issue after resisting for years, following the House’s approval of a similar policy through a state budget amendment.
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SINCE COLONIAL TIMES, state and local governments have been required to publish legal advertisements in newspapers about official proclamations, court citations, vital records, and the like. Also known as public notices, these agate-size ads inform the community of important public business — and provide the press with a crucial revenue stream.
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FOR ALL THE concern about lost federal funding courtesy of the Republican trifecta in Washington, Massachusetts still has not deployed a single electric vehicle charger through a Biden-era program that President Trump has left intact.
The Bay State is sitting on the roughly $64 million it was awarded through the National Electric Vehicle Infrastru...
IN HIS EXCELLENT report on how the November ballot is taking shape (“Yet again, legislative competition in Massachusetts will be woeful”), Chris Lisinski observes that there will be a record numb...