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Patrick wants Executive Branch managers to take nine unpaid furlough days and said he would ask lawmakers to grant him authority to slash funding farther afield, which could include the court system, Legislature, and local aid. “There are some things...

The rising spending projections, spurred by recession-era reliance on public safety-net services, could force deeper budget cuts or additional deficit spending as the state struggles to balance its commitment to health care coverage expansion with an operating budget already streaked...

The proposal would allow veterans to file absentee ballots electronically for federal, state and local elections. It also allows state licensing boards to exempt veterans from certain requirements to help them obtain licenses for work they may have performed during...

Instead, Sharkey is giving them out as fast as the town receives them, but that isn’t fast enough, she said. Last Thursday, the first 300 vaccines were given to Thompson Elementary School students whose papers had authorized it – which...

Members of the public, agency representatives, and other project stakeholders are invited to attend the hearing and to make comments on the project. MassDOT anticipates that a large number of people will comment at the meeting, so a time limit...

The rewrite, a consolidation of Patrick’s two bills which the committee was expected to approve late Tuesday, creates “innovation schools,” essentially charter schools created by the schools districts permitted to engage in private fundraising. The 66-page bill removes the prohibition...

On Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Dr. Joseph Maniscalco will be hosting a benefit for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at 19 Chestnut Street...Not only will the car be present, but Andy Periollo, aka “The...

With only three of the ten members of the House Committee on Global Warming and Climate Change present for the Election Day hearing, lawmakers were advised to update building and design codes, take steps to protect roads, communications infrastructure and...

Then she snipped them off, and gave one to each of her two young children. “So they had these two long braids that they would pull out every so often and touch,” she remembers. It seems a little creepy, she...