Business & Economy
State Capital Budget Sails Through the House
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With little debate, the House Thursday approved a $137.4 million capital budget plan that utilized $105.7 million in federal funds.
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With little debate, the House Thursday approved a $137.4 million capital budget plan that utilized $105.7 million in federal funds.
A negotiated agreement between the Republican and Democratic leadership led to the House approving its budget package Thursday on a voice vote after three hours of debate.
The long run of better than anticipated business taxes that has fueled the state’s budget surpluses over the past few years continues, but at a slower pace.
Reform of the state’s five-year-old bail reform laws is the subject of two bills getting traction in the State House now.
The identities of the 12 jurors who found Volodymyr Zhukovskyy not guilty in the fatal crash that took the lives of seven motorcycle riders will remain secret despite attempts by the Boston Globe to unseal the names.
Advocates, health care providers, business organizations, cancer survivors, recovering addicts and patients of mental health services testified in support of a bill to reauthorize the state’s Medicaid expansion program permanently.
A bill related to the siting of new landfills in the state – which has passed the House – was heard by a Senate committee Tuesday with opposition expressed from the landfill industry, geologists, and the state Department of Environmental Services.
Lobstermen packed a hearing overwhelmingly opposed to a bill that would establish a license to take lobsters by SCUBA in House Bill 442.
A bill to prohibit communities in the state from declaring themselves “sanctuary” cities or towns passed 13-10 in the state Senate Thursday along with a measure that would send to the voters the question of putting the first-in-the-nation primary in the state Constitution.