Two more chances for lotto players to hit it big this year
$642 million up for grabs in Powerball and Mega Millions drawings this week
View ArticleSTATE HOUSE ROUNDUP -- The top 10 stories of 2018
To put 2018 into context, consider this.Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly re-elected a Republican governor and a U.S. senator who is gearing up to run for president as a Democrat in 2020, and some...
View ArticleMassachusetts age to buy cigarettes rises in 2019
The state law also places existing prohibitions on public smoking over electronic cigarettes. Moreover, it outlaws the use of tobacco products on the grounds of any public or private primary, secondary...
View ArticleMassachusetts minimum wages rise in 2019
Increases are a direct result of what many called historic wage-and-benefits legislation that Massachusetts General Court passed and Gov. Charlie Baker signed in June. That law also established a new...
View ArticleSTATE HOUSE ROUNDUP -- Mostly familiar names return
A recap and analysis of the week in state government.With their right hands raised and their eyes full of optimism and hope, legislators -- some old and some new -- returned to Beacon Hill last week...
View ArticleSTATE HOUSE ROUNDUP -- Some decisions are harder than others
A recap and analysis of the week in state government.Decisions, decisions, decisions.Beacon Hill faced a slew of them last week as Gov. Charlie Baker wrestled with what bills deserved his signature to...
View ArticleSTATE HOUSE ROUNDUP -- Federal employees feel shutdown's bite
A recap and analysis of the week in state government.A month is a long time to go without a paycheck.But for nearly 7,000 federal workers in Massachusetts, that's the reality as another week came to a...
View ArticleBraintree pot growers face trafficking charges, police say
After investigating for weeks, Braintree police on Wednesday broke up an illicit marijuana growing operation and town officials condemned the Braintree home where dozens of plants were found. Police...
View ArticleBaker open to fee hike to boost state CPA match
As cities and towns participating in a program that provides state funds to support affordable housing and open space preservation watch the state's contribution dwindle, Community Preservation Act...
View ArticleSTATE HOUSE ROUNDUP -- Will anyone try to crash DeLeo's party?
A recap and analysis of the week in state government.Seth Moulton is to Capitol Hill as (blank) is to Beacon Hill.Give up? Maybe that's because if this were a Massachusetts politics SAT question, it...
View ArticleState Fire Marshal offers Thanksgiving safety tips
 "Thanksgiving is a wonderful family holiday, but the day can be ruined with a cooking or candle fire, a burn injury, or a carbon monoxide incident from long-term use of the oven," said State Fire...
View ArticleSTATE HOUSE ROUNDUP -- Moulton's plan appeared half-baked
A recap and analysis of the week in state government.He was in Amesbury last week, not Northampton or Leicester, but U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton's rhetoric about changing the House had shades of...
View ArticleINTERACTIVE GRAPHICS: Early voting drops, mid-term turnout is up
The Massachusetts Governor's Council certified the results of the Nov. 6 general election on Wednesday, Nov. 28. Here is a look at some of those statewide numbers.
View ArticleSTATE HOUSE ROUNDUP -- No time to take it easy
A recap and analysis of the week in state government.He was standing on a corner in Scottsdale, Arizona, when someone asked the governor why some Republicans may lose, and some may win."I don't know...
View ArticleBald eagle population rebounding with state help
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, DEC. 3, 2018....The number of bald eagles nesting in Massachusetts appears to be steadily growing amid three decades of efforts to re-establish a natural population of the nation's...
View ArticleSTATE HOUSE ROUNDUP -- Not the most festive of festivities
A recap and analysis of the week in state government.Two hundred and forty-five years ago this month, the Sons of Liberty boarded British ships and threw chests of tea into the harbor to protest...
View ArticleSTATE HOUSE ROUNDUP -- Another leadership change at the MBTA
A recap and analysis of the week in state government.When Gov. Charlie Baker took office, it started snowing. And soon thereafter, Bev Scott took herself "out the picture."From there, Baker and...
View ArticleMEMA: Magnitude 2.2 earthquake shakes Gardner/Templeton area this afternoon
The local Public Safety Communications Center in Gardner has reported that it, as well as local Communications Centers in surrounding towns, have received citizen calls reporting shaking and associated...
View ArticleSTATE HOUSE ROUNDUP -- There arose such a clatter
A recap and analysis of the week in state government.The ghosts of bills past, present and future haunted the halls of the State House last week as the House and Senate awoke from their winter...
View ArticleTwo more chances for lotto players to hit it big this year
$642 million up for grabs in Powerball and Mega Millions drawings this week
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