With the new fiscal year less than a week away and a budget vigil underway, the House Ways and Means is getting the week started by approving an interim budget to keep government running in the absence of an annual budget.
We supposedly live in one of the bluest states in the country – even our Republican governors could easily qualify as moderate Democrats in less enlightened regions. So how is it that our state, long dominated by a self-avowed party of progress, finds itself increasingly paralyzed with traffic gridlock and seemingly stuck with a ramshackle public transportation system?
Chapter 40B is Massachusetts’ regional planning law, but that is not how most folks know it.
The Legislature finalized a bill Tuesday that guarantees women access to birth control without insurance co-payments, sending to Republican Gov. Charlie Baker a measure intended as a response to President Donald Trump’s actions.
Construction projects at public colleges and universities – as well as upgrades at a soldiers’ home, State Police barracks and Boston courthouse – will not be able to proceed unless more borrowing is authorized, Baker administration officials told lawmakers Thursday.
Passage of the Graham-Cassidy health care reform bill in Congress would force Massachusetts to either “dramatically step back” from its decades-long commitment to expanding coverage or find huge sums of new revenue or money within the budget to keep programming going, Gov. Charlie Baker said Thursday.
Undeterred by tax collections that are trailing benchmarks two months into the fiscal year, the Legislature is halfway toward restoring $275 million in spending that Gov. Charlie Baker vetoed from the annual budget.
Gov. Charlie Baker saluted innovation and investment in the health care field during his remarks at the 2017 International BIO Conference in San Diego on Wednesday, laying out his plans to invest in workforce development and foster public-private partnerships and thanking those in the medical industry for doing the work they do.
Gov. Charlie Baker has told House Speaker Robert DeLeo not to worry about deficient tax collections blowing a hole in this year’s state budget. And the powerful Winthrop Democrat is taking the governor at his word.
Faced with a report that the MBTA’s pension fund will need about $1 billion over the next 18 years to remain solvent and fulfill its obligations, the T’s Fiscal and Management Control Board on Monday was presented with three options.
Without specific plans for how to achieve savings, MBTA overseers on Thursday targeted the commuter rail, bus maintenance and The Ride paratransit service for reduced spending, passing a $1.989 billion fiscal 2018 budget that leaves a $30 million budget gap.
The Baker administration’s plan to levy heavy per-employee assessments on businesses that don’t meet proposed health insurance requirements may have been based on a “flawed premise,” according to an influential Beacon Hill think tank.
Through the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) the Baker administration awarded a total of $3 million in capital grant funding to the Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute, as well as to middle and high schools in Gloucester, Lynn and Salem.
Gov. Charlie Baker has pledged to veto the legislative pay raise bill that lawmakers swept through their chambers and onto his desk Thursday.
Gov. Charlie Baker’s 14-month-old program of selling surplus state properties has generated 22 pending development projects that will create 1,556 housing units and 100,000 square feet of commercial space.
Continuing to chase after state budget solutions, Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration on Friday identified what it sees as a $295 million deficit in the $39.25 billion budget just three months into the fiscal year, prompting the governor to pursue a reduction in workforce and contemplate likely spending cuts across state government.
Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito this week announced an emergency loan fund to help Massachusetts farms struggling with prolonged drought this summer.
The Baker Administration announced awards to fund the development, renovation and preservation of affordable rental housing across the commonwealth on Monday. The money will be used to create or preserve 1,420 housing units.
