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 — Gov. Deval Patrick is releasing Tuesday what is described as the most comprehensive plan for integrating immigrants into Massachusetts. The director of the state’s Office for Refugees and Immigrants explains how the 131 recommendations would make economic and civic life more inclusive for the immigrant community.
QUINCY, Mass. — Gov. Deval Patrick signed into law a new set of veterans benefits Wednesday, even as some Massachusetts military members decried deep cuts Patrick recently made to two state homes for soldiers.
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.
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 — Gov. Deval Patrick is estimating that the federal stimulus program has created or saved 23,000 jobs in Massachusetts since February.
BOSTON — President Obama has arrived in Massachusetts for a day of policy and politics. The president is speaking first Friday at MIT about a climate change bill pushed by Sen. John Kerry.
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 — The Patrick administration has talked for over a year about cutting 1,750 jobs from the executive branch work force to cope with state budget deficits, but it’s still short of its goal even as tax collections continue to languish.
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick has begun negotiations with public employee union representatives as he devises large budget cuts that could include laying off up to 2,000 state workers.
BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick is considering a series of cuts and may lay off up to 2,000 state workers to close a $600 million hole in the current fiscal year state budget.
BOSTON — Four environmental groups allege the Patrick administration has ignored them over clean water policy, so they have resigned from an advisory panel.
BOSTON — Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown says Gov. Deval Patrick should fire his so-called “stimulus czar” after a congressman complained the state wasn’t spending its federal funds quickly enough.
