By Chris Lisinski State House News Service Gov. Charlie Baker announced opposition Friday to allowing 16- and 17-year-olds in Massachusetts to acquire abortions without consent from...
By Matt Murphy DEC. 11, 2020…..Gov. Charlie Baker signed a $45.9 billion state budget on Friday that will not raise broad-based taxes and reflects a more...
By Matt Murphy Threatening to veto tax hikes if pursued by the Legislature, Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday took the exceedingly rare step of refiling his...
By Colin A. Young (SEPT. 29, 2020) With difficult and potentially painful budget decisions looming on Beacon Hill’s horizon, one prominent state finance think tank says...
By Matt Murphy Despite signs that the state’s finances have not completely cratered during the pandemic, the Senate’s top budget official said this week he anticipates...
PROVIDENCE – The owner of two Rhode Island businesses that supply steel and iron to construction sites admitted that over a period of two years he...
By Chris Lisinski With unemployment soaring, state lawmakers are considering ways to soften the blow from a major impending increase in the taxes employers pay toward...
By Colin A. Young Having taken in $1.992 billion in tax revenue in August, state tax collections are running $124 million or more than 3 percent...
Matt Murphy State House News Service A group of 27 senators that included U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Sen. Edward Markey wrote a letter last...
BOSTON – Governor Charlie Baker, Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, Senate President Karen Spilka and House Speaker Robert DeLeo today announced an agreement to extend the 2019...
