Brian Shortsleeve, a former Baker administration MBTA executive, venture capitalist and Marine Corps veteran, announced his candidacy for governor a platform to “bring commonsense conservative leadership to Beacon Hill.”
Mike Kennealy is the first major challenger to Democratic Gov. Maura Healey in the 2026 gubernatorial race. On housing, he says he’ll work “in partnership” with towns to build more homes.
The idea to exempt multifamily projects’ building materials would first be studied by a commission before any changes get formally proposed.
Tariff policies and national political developments slid Massachusetts employers further into a state of pessimism in April.
Thousands of Massachusetts residents gained a new tool in the search for stable housing Monday, as a compromise between tenant advocates and the real estate lobby took effect allowing eligible tenants to have their past eviction records sealed.
Senate Democrats want to send only $370 million to the MBTA under a new spending plan fueled by excess surtax revenues, much less than the House approved across workforce, infrastructure and reduced fare investments at the beleaguered transit agency.
Start with an aging workforce and challenges retaining younger people, and add growing consumer worries and weakness in the tech sector, and Massachusetts’ economy could have shrunk as much as 1.3 percent.
The Department of Public Utilities late Wednesday night ordered that gas companies will have to ratchet down the amount of money they can bill customers for efforts to replace old and leaking natural gas pipelines.
As homeowners dealing with crumbling concrete foundations implored lawmakers Tuesday to deliver financial assistance, House Democrats declined to support a budget amendment to create a relief fund seeded with $100 million.
Surtax supporters released data Monday that they said pokes holes in the argument that the state’s new tax on high earners is causing higher-income residents to move out of Massachusetts.
The hiring blitz at the T will keep going full steam ahead. Or it probably will, at least if the MBTA’s final budget looks like the preliminary version that’s up for a vote Thursday.
Some GOP representatives are angling to reopen the controversial MBTA Communities Act conversation when the House takes up its budget next week.
Buoyed by busy air travel at Logan Airport, the Massachusetts Port Authority is expecting a “very good fiscal year” while bracing for potential turbulence in connection with tariff impacts on travel and cargo patterns, CEO Rich Davey said Thursday.
Massachusetts accountants representing wealthy residents renewed their calls Wednesday for a bevy of tax reforms, including overhauling the “sting tax” on companies, to prevent the ongoing outmigration of Bay Staters and businesses.
Economic Development Secretary Yvonne Hao is stepping down from her port at the end of the month, with Undersecretary of Economic Foundations Ashley Stolba in line to take over the secretary’s duties on an interim basis, the Healey administration said Tuesday.
The move will likely be a relief to contractors, who say there aren’t enough clean trucks or charging stations available, but it’s being met with anger by environmental advocates.
Between market dips, concerned state officials and international trade implications, the tariff policies implemented and now partly paused by President Donald Trump last week have created widespread worry across Massachusetts and the nation.
The top House Democrat said Thursday he believes the town of Milton had a “legitimate complaint” about a controversial mandatory zoning-reform law, but added that he is not considering any legislative action to let the community off the hook.
House Democrats will seek a vote this week on a roughly $1.3 billion spending plan that would inject hundreds of millions of dollars into the MBTA as the agency wrestles with a major budget gap.
Mike Kennealy, a former private equity manager who spent four years as state housing and economic development secretary under Gov. Charlie Baker, says Massachusetts is “heading in the wrong direction.”
