House leaders are ordering their staff members to take five furlough days, although lawmakers won’t have to take them themselves.
BOSTON — Elected officials gathered with artists Thursday on Beacon Hill to talk about their role in the state’s creative economy.
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick urged the Massachusetts Legislature on Wednesday to suspend its rules and stay in session as long as needed to pass an education-overhaul bill, but the House speaker balked.
BOSTON — Law enforcement officials, parents and members of the Anti-Defamation League are pushing for new laws that respond aggressively to bullying at schools.
BOSTON — The state Department of Children and Families is trying to do too much too soon, social workers and DCF union members told a legislative committee Tuesday on Beacon Hill.
You’d think that at a time when the state is about to cut 1,000 to 2,000 jobs, this wouldn’t happen: A state official who was forced out of her post last summer is still drawing a consultant’s salary of more than $6,000 a month. That’s what the New England Center for Investigative Reporting at Boston University has learned is happening.
Controversy and criticism greeted the new Massachusetts Department of Transportation as it opened its doors Sunday. It is widely hailed as one of the largest governmental reorganizations undertaken by the state in the past 50 years.
BOSTON — A state committee heard almost seven hours of testimony from all imaginable corners of the casino divide on Thursday — the first hearing since House Speaker Robert DeLeo threw his support behind pushing some kind of casino bill into House debate by January 2010.
WORCESTER, Mass. — Gov. Deval Patrick is preparing to lay off anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 state workers before the end of the year. The cuts come as the state grapples with another surprise budget deficit. This time, Patrick has to plug a $600 million hole in the budget.
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick is expected to announce budget reductions Thursday afternoon to help close an estimated $600 million dollar spending gap.
BOSTON — Looming deficits and potential revenue on the same day: As Gov. Deval Patrick details budget cuts to bridge the $600 million budget gap Thursday, legislators are also holding major hearings on casino gambling in Massachusetts.
BOSTON — The first broadcast debate between the Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate found the candidates trying to link themselves to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — drawing comparisons to the way Kennedy was able to work with opponents and their strengths.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — President Obama comes to town Friday to raise money for Gov. Deval Patrick. Two years into his first term, Patrick finds himself in a tough spot. In his attempt to get re-elected next year, he faces not only a Republican opponent but former State Treasurer Tim Cahilll. One possible explanation for Patrick’s quandary: He doesn’t like the give-and-take of politics on Beacon Hill.
BOSTON — Another high-level Patrick administration official is leaving, this time to become president of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.
BOSTON — The public is being given a chance to weigh on more than a dozen gaming bills, including several allowing the state to license resort style casinos in Massachusetts for the first time.
