The state pension fund has begun to divest itself of Russian assets, but market conditions have whittled down the fund’s holdings subject to the divestment mandate the Legislature included in a recent midyear spending bill to the point of being nearly “a complete write-off,” the fund’s chief investment officer said Tuesday.
With the annual House budget debate now in the rearview mirror, Speaker Ronald Mariano said Monday that top Democrats are still looking at tax relief options but conceded he is “not sure” when they will be ready to advance a proposal or what it would entail.
Gov. Charlie Baker needs to start to make more aggressive use of the bully pulpit to explain exactly why all this new housing – and the zoning reform needed to build it – is absolutely essential. Especially if he wants to preserve his legacy.
Senators took a major step Thursday toward achieving the net-zero emissions target they already set for Massachusetts by approving a policy-heavy bill aimed at expanding the clean energy industry and reining in emissions from the transportation and building sectors.
In the next few months in Massachusetts, we will hear a great deal from the candidates running for governor and their top priorities if elected. During this same time, the actions by the Baker Administration will determine the future viability of transportation projects that would occur in the next decade.
The state’s Department of Unemployment Assistance will be in touch with claimants in the coming days to detail state and federal relief options that would resolve about $1.6 billion, or roughly 71 percent, of overpayments.
Without the crutch of pandemic-era emergency rental assistance, Antonia De Leon of Lynn worries that she and her family might not have been able to remain in their home.
The details of the House budget won’t be fully known until Wednesday, but House Speaker Ron Mariano said Monday that his chamber is not going to propose tax relief or tax breaks as part of its plan for the fiscal year 2023.
The Department of Transportation plans to launch a hiring push in preparation for a slew of maintenance and modernization projects teed up by a new federal infrastructure law.
Gov. Charlie Baker joined officials from the Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology to kick off construction on a new, 68,000-square-foot campus in Boston’s Nubian Square that is hoped will further revitalize the neighborhood.
As Gov. Charlie Baker revs up to make another attempt at selling the Hynes Convention Center more than two years after his first effort fell flat, legislative leaders said Monday they still do not know where they stand.
From a lack of affordable housing to the cost of child care, a legislative committee tasked with looking at ways the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the economy identified key obstacles with long roots that it says must be addressed in Massachusetts to help people grow into jobs of the future.
The ability for a municipality to require all-electric new construction was not among the Baker administration’s proposed state building code changes meant to encourage builders to shift away from fossil fuel heating in favor of electrification, but Attorney General Maura Healey has told the administration that it has the legal authority to propose such a policy.
As momentum grows around the country for the suspension of state gas taxes, the state Senate on Thursday rejected a Republican-led push to pause gas tax collections through Labor Day even as Gov. Charlie Baker signaled he was warming to the idea.
The latest batch of employment data estimated that Massachusetts had about 181,000 unemployed workers in January, a month when the statewide count of jobs stood 131,000 below where it was before COVID-19 hit.
In the first year after elected officials allowed a statewide moratorium on evictions to lapse, tenants in neighborhoods where a majority of residents are nonwhite were nearly twice as likely to face eviction than renters in mostly white areas, according to a new report.
“Cliff? What cliff?” the bus driver asked without evident concern.
Gov. Charlie Baker, who lives with his wife in their turn-of-the-20th century Swampscott home, has no plans to invest his new $65,000 housing stipend in a property or rent closer to the office.
Unions representing 1,250 locked out gas worked have tentatively scheduled their next contract talks with National Grid for Wednesday, the day before Gov. Charlie Baker’s deadline to act on locked out worker benefit legislation.
State regulators on Wednesday lifted their moratorium on National Grid gas work, infuriating locked out gas workers, but ordered the utility to adhere to what officials called “an unprecedentedly high standard.”
