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Unemployment system to soon move away from facial recognition
By Matt Murphy The state’s unemployment assistance agency will in the “coming weeks” stop utilizing facial recognition technology to verify…
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Baker urges remote work as non-emergency state executive employees should not report Friday due to storm
Colin A. Young Non-emergency state executive branch employees should not report to their workplaces and other employers should be flexible…
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Massachusetts senator wants probe of RMV road test scandal
By Chris Lisinski FEB. 22, 2022…..One senator who’s also running for higher office wants to launch an oversight hearing into…
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Massachusetts legislative leaders stick with State House Proof-of-Vax policy
Michael P. Norton The City of Boston on Friday pulled its requirement that patrons and staff of certain indoor spaces…
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Massachusetts Seal And Motto Commission looks to find traction
Sam Doran More than a year after the Legislature first called for a commission to consider changes to the state…
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Fall River takes step toward free menstrual products
By Katie Lannan FEB. 17, 2022…..As Fall River plans to use a state grant to provide free menstrual products in…
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Massachusetts first responders making bid for premium pay
Michael P. Norton Demands on the state’s big pool of federal COVID aid have garnered headlines, but first responders are…
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Massachusetts’ first offshore wind manufacturing facility coming to Somerset’s Brayton Point
Colin A. Young Gov. Charlie Baker and top deputies joined lawmakers from southeastern Massachusetts and officials from Vineyard Wind’s parent…
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Poll puts Healey, Diehl ahead of pack and doubts surtax support
By Matt Murphy FEB. 16, 2022…..With seven months before voters go to the polls, Attorney General Maura Healey and former…
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Governor Baker’s wiretap bill stirs chorus of opposition
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…
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