Baker appeals to feds for more help with migrants

Gov. Charlie Baker wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Monday, urging the BidenRead More

Tax refunds will start to flow on Tuesday

The first checks and direct deposits from a nearly $3 billion pot of excess tax revenue will head back to taxpayers starting on Tuesday whenRead More

Report: Mass. Housing Affordability Problems Worsening

BOSTON- By almost any metric — and researchers looked at more than a few in a new 122-page report — the region’s housing market remainsRead More

Harvard poll projects ‘Gen Z Wave” in November’s elections

Following two elections with historic youth turnout, the Harvard Youth Poll is once again predicting a “Gen Z wave” in the upcoming midterms. “I don’tRead More

Baker Recommends Second Batch Of Pardons

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, OCT. 26, 2022…..Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday recommended his second batch of pardons in two weeks, proposing forgiveness for three people forRead More

Report: housing affordability problems in Massachusetts worsening

OCT. 26, 2022…..By almost any metric — and researchers looked at more than a few in a new 122-page report — the region’s housing marketRead More

Offers extended to some who lost jobs over vaccine mandate

The Baker administration has offered jobs back to “a small number” of former state employees who had been among a narrow minority of executive branchRead More

Low-speed Orange Line trips will extend into December

Some speed restrictions on the Orange Line that have befuddled riders and slowed trips will stay in place into December, more than two months afterRead More

LaHood: timing perfect to restart MBTA from ‘Ground Zero’

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, OCT. 25, 2022…..Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing how to fix years of problems at the MBTA while state government stands on the thresholdRead More

Wu urges full-court press for MBTA workers

Policymakers across the state and local level need to deploy “every last bit of political will” to reinvigorate hiring at the short-staffed transit agency, BostonRead More