Healey refiles bill that would allow municipalities to raise taxes on meals and lodging
The Gov. Maura Healey administration refiled legislation that would allow Massachusetts municipalities to raises taxes on ...
Healey trying again for local option tax hikes
The governor's second so-called Municipal Empowerment Act would allow cities and towns to increase local taxes on meals, ...
Warren keeps up the pressure on Kennedy
CABINET BATTLE — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is doubling down on her efforts to keep Robert F. Kennedy Jr. out of President Donald ...
These local leaders are lining up behind Gov. Healey’s tax plan. Here’s why | Bay State Briefing
Municipal leaders have used existing local option taxes to raise money for affordable housing and to dodge property tax ...
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Beacon Hill Roll Call: Bills the House let expire through inaction
There were no roll calls in the House or Senate last week. When the 2024 legislative session ended on Jan. 1, thousands of ...
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Law takes effect allowing 'accessory dwelling units'
BOSTON — Massachusetts property owners now have a right to build accessory dwelling units or so-called in-law apartments in single-family zoning districts across most of the state, under a law ...
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Governor Files Bill to Modernize Public Higher Education Campuses
Representing the largest proposed infrastructure investments in Massachusetts' public higher education system in decades, ...
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Healey signs Rosa Parks Day Bill
Shortly after the new year began, Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill making Feb. 4 a day to set aside in honor of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in Massachusetts. The bill’s initiator, ...
Healey slammed for looking at children’s rehab hospital as a ‘budget problem’
Staffers at Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children are calling on Maura Healey to visit their Canton facility after the ...
Town of Norwood, Massachusetts, creates working group with goal of reopening Norwood Hospital
The task will fall on us to do the heavy lifting; we need to find a viable operator with the capital to reopen Norwood ...
In ‘tense’ call, Mass. Gov. Healey, other Dem governors push Senate leader Schumer to resist Trump
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey and five Democratic governors pressed Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer during a ...
Gov. Healey to revisit plan to close Canton children’s rehab, congressman says
Gov. Maura Healey will revisit her plan to close a Canton pediatric rehab and relocate services to western Mass., according ...