By Colin A. Young Treasurer Deborah Goldberg wants the people of Massachusetts to know that it isn’t actually her office calling to tell people they owe...
Sam Drysdale, Alison Kuznitz STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, NOV. 6, 2023…..The House plans to steer more funds to the state’s strained emergency shelter system as part of...
Sam Drysdale STATE HOUSE, BOSTON…..Chronic absenteeism in Massachusetts public schools grew by 72 percent between 2019 and 2023, new data from the Department of Elementary and...
Sam Drysdale STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, NOV. 1, 2023…..A Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied a request to put a temporary hold on the Healey administration’s plan...
Chris Lisinski Significant public resources are “just being wasted” on punishing motorists who fail to pay fines to the state Registry of Motor Vehicles, civil rights...
Chris Lisinski, Sam Drysdale STATE HOUSE, BOSTON…..Bay Staters would gain increased access to menstrual products in schools and other public settings, and pharmacists could distribute short-term...
Sophie Hauck, Special to State House News Service AMHERST, MASS., OCT. 26, 2023…..Fifty-seven pro-Palestine protestors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst were arrested by campus police...
Sam Drysdale STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, OCT. 25, 2023…..Gov. Maura Healey’s administration is making a new play to deliver federal dollars to the state’s emergency assistance system,...
Colin A. Young OCT. 19, 2023…..Poll results released Thursday by supporters of legislation to provide sanctioned spaces for people with substance use addiction to use drugs...
Chris Lisinski STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, OCT. 18, 2023…..Most House Democrats lined up Wednesday in support of a major overhaul of the state’s firearms laws, easily hurdling...