House Speaker Ronald Mariano said he tried to “shuffle the deck a little bit” to get more representatives more experience and to restock the pipeline of women on track for higher posts.
Voters opted to change up the political party of their state representative in at least four districts Tuesday on a night when Massachusetts Republicans showed renewed strength.
A pickup truck jumped a Scituate curb on Saturday and crashed through the front of a bank, the kind of incident that Rep. Carolyn Dykema believes requires intervention by the legislature.
A long-running debate over the state’s estate tax revived on Beacon Hill as the Revenue Committee took up bills Tuesday calling for reforms or outright abolition of the levies charged when assets are passed along following a person’s death.
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.
All those in favor of better alcohol laws, say “cheers!”
With the clock ticking under federal law, the state House of Representatives on Wednesday voted unanimously to establish a framework for licensing and regulating appraisal management companies in Massachusetts.
The members of the real estate industry found themselves on opposite sides of a conversation on Beacon Hill Tuesday about how to come up with enough money to help Massachusetts communities prepare for climate change.
A pair of progressive legislators are planning a push on Beacon Hill to legalize local rent control laws.
Banks and credit unions have long battled over the fact that credit unions are exempt from the federal income tax. But in Iowa, that argument is coming full circle.
