By Matt Murphy The state’s unemployment assistance agency will in the “coming weeks” stop utilizing facial recognition technology to verify the identities of benefit applicants after...
Colin A. Young Non-emergency state executive branch employees should not report to their workplaces and other employers should be flexible and allow people to work remotely...
By Chris Lisinski FEB. 22, 2022…..One senator who’s also running for higher office wants to launch an oversight hearing into the latest controversy at the Registry...
Michael P. Norton The City of Boston on Friday pulled its requirement that patrons and staff of certain indoor spaces show proof of vaccination against COVID-19....
Sam Doran More than a year after the Legislature first called for a commission to consider changes to the state seal and motto, the panel began...
By Katie Lannan FEB. 17, 2022…..As Fall River plans to use a state grant to provide free menstrual products in the city’s middle and high schools,...
Michael P. Norton Demands on the state’s big pool of federal COVID aid have garnered headlines, but first responders are making a play for a big...
Colin A. Young Gov. Charlie Baker and top deputies joined lawmakers from southeastern Massachusetts and officials from Vineyard Wind’s parent company Avangrid to celebrate plans to...
By Matt Murphy FEB. 16, 2022…..With seven months before voters go to the polls, Attorney General Maura Healey and former Rep. Geoff Diehl hold significant advantages...
By Colin A. Young FEB. 15, 2022…..The Baker administration’s bid to update the state’s 54-year-old wiretapping law to allow surreptitious surveillance of communications in more investigations...
