Politics
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Enhanced Cash Benefits Pitched to Get Massachusetts Families Out of ‘Deep Poverty’
By Matt Murphy State House News Service Despite the Legislature in 2021 increasing cash assistance benefits for the first time…
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Judiciary Committee deadlocked on Rollins nomination for Massachusetts U.S. Attorney
By Matt Murphy State House News Service Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins’ path to making history as the first…
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Enhanced cash benefits pitched to get families out of ‘deep poverty’
By Matt Murphy State House News Service Despite the Legislature in 2021 increasing cash assistance benefits for the first time…
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Massachusetts hospitals: Staffing problems are ‘really bad’
By Katie Lannan State House News Service Hospital leaders sounded an alarm Wednesday about the workforce challenges plaguing them as…
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Emotional arguments precede aid in dying hearing in Massachusetts
By Katie Lannan State House News Service SEPT. 30, 2021…..Nearly a decade after voters narrowly rejected a ballot question seeking…
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Legisislation moves forward to mark COVID-19 Remembrance Day in Massachusetts
A new piece of legislation is looking to mark the pandemic in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts so that those who…
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Coalition Seeks Formation Of 13 New Majority-Minority Districts
By Matt Murphy Voting rights advocates are pushing for a new majority-Black Senate district in Boston and as many as…
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Massachusetts State Troopers arrest several protesters who blocked road in front of Governor Baker’s home
Protesters who blocked a road in front of Governor Baker’s home were arrested this morning. According to Dave Procopio of…
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“Mass And Cass” Cited in Drug Consumption Site Push
In the years since Somerville officials began pushing to open the first supervised drug consumption site in Massachusetts, City Council…
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Already short staffed, dozens of Massachusetts State Troopers resign due to Baker’s mandate
Already short staffed, dozens of Massachusetts State Troopers have already resigned due to Governor Charlie Baker’s vaccine mandate. The State…
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