DeLeo amassed great power, but he leaves office with little to show for it when it comes to two bread-and-butter middle- and working-class issues: the state’s spiraling home prices, traffic-choked roads and insufficient transit systems.
On the verge of leading an institution he has served in for 30 years, House Majority Leader Ron Mariano pushed back Tuesday against the notion that his politics are not progressive
House Speaker Robert DeLeo, a Winthrop Democrat, plans to resign from the legislature after 30 years on Beacon Hill on Tuesday, ending a 12-year run as speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s office pushed back Wednesday evening on a report that he would be stepping down to take a job at Northeastern University.
The push to make Juneteenth a state holiday has backing from the House’s top Democrat.
While the House waits for the Senate to decide how it will handle transportation tax and borrowing bills, Speaker Robert DeLeo said lawmakers must treat the topic as a top priority even while juggling the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday said he was “disappointed” with many of the core elements of Speaker Robert DeLeo’s transportation funding tax package, raising the stakes for next week’s debate.
While most advocates for new transportation revenues to improve the condition of roads and bridges and deliver more reliable, affordable public transit were pleased to see progress, several said they had hoped the bill would have gone further.
A 5-cent increase in the gas tax and higher corporate taxes will be the centerpiece of a major revenue bill that House Democratic leaders will ask legislators to vote on next week as part of a package that could raise over $600 million in new funding for transportation.
The House’s long-awaited transportation revenue legislation will emerge “sooner rather than later,” Speaker Robert DeLeo said Monday,
Massachusetts is currently the only state in New England that does not have some type of commission looking at the cost and funding solutions necessary to protect against and avoid risks posed and expenses incurred by climate change.
House Speaker Robert DeLeo on Monday evening questioned whether the $50 million for the MBTA hung up in a legislative dispute would be put toward safety as he used a damning report released on the safety culture at the transit agency as a opportunity to make his case for new revenue.
With Thanksgiving just days away, it’s time for our annual turkey shoot, where we let loose a healthy dose of verbal buckshot on everything from projects gone wrong to spineless pols and NIMBY neighbors.
With just days remaining until the legislature recesses until 2020, House Speaker Robert DeLeo said Thursday he’s decided to push back his timeline for a hotly anticipated debate over new revenue for transportation until next year.
A consensus is emerging: More revenue is needed to improve our infrastructure, but also should be designed to influence behavior with an overarching goal of getting cars off the road and increasing the use of public transit.
While housing activists and progressive state legislators rallied for rent control legislation on the steps of the State House Tuesday, a co-chair of the state legislator’s Housing Committee said anti-development municipalities were blocking legislation that would help build more housing.
House leaders are inching toward a proposal to raise new revenue “sourced from transportation for transportation” to invest in infrastructure and public transit, keeping their eye on the third full week of November as a deadline to take up a bill.
While Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday his administration has noted “tremendous” interest from real estate developers in his proposal to sell off Back Bay’s Hynes Convention Center for redevelopment, legislative leaders appear reluctant to jump on board the bandwagon.
News last week that House Speaker Robert DeLeo wasn’t sure Beacon Hill could pass a desperately needed housing production bill by the end of the year should send shivers down everyone’s spine.
The state legislature’s Transportation Committee is gearing up for a busy fall, with public hearings on Gov. Charlie Baker’s $18 billion transportation bill and another session likely to probe Registry of Motor Vehicles failings.
