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State House Spotlight: From Beacon Hill to Capitol Hill
BOSTON (WWLP) – This week at the State House in Boston, lawmakers continued to adjust to a new normal working under Trump.
House Democrats want to temporarily block non-Massachusetts residents from taxpayer-funded shelters
Top House budget writers released a $425 million spending bill to fund state-run shelters that seeks to temporarily cap the ...
House Democrats restrict Massachusetts emergency shelter eligibility in $425M bill
The bill features temporary reforms including “stricter eligibility requirements, along with increased security measures” ...
Howie Carr: Six-figure Massachusetts pensioners a town-sized population
In today’s column we peruse a few of the most bloated pensions in the state hackerama. Every year, the state’s billion-dollar ...
House Democrats restrict shelter eligibility, tighten security in $425M bill
The $425M bill would give the Healey administration new, but temporary, authority to restrict eligibility for state emergency shelters.
Massachusetts will have to pay interest costs related to $2.5B unemployment benefit error
State will pay $2.034B to the federal government from the employer-funded unemployment insurance trust fund and $73M in ...
Mass. House passes $425 million bill for emergency shelter system while placing new limits on families
Lawmakers passed a $425 million bill to finance the state's struggling emergency shelter system that also implemented a new ...
Facing a second Trump era, Mass. activists and organizers look beyond street protests to fight back
The strategy, they say, is a response to what opponents felt worked — and didn’t — during the first Trump administration.
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Mass. lawmakers push for abortion without trimester limits
A few short lines buried in Massachusetts’ laws have been debated time and again: the rules around when a person in the third ...
On Beacon Hill, hundreds protest Trump’s first two weeks, Elon Musk’s DOGE
The demonstration was one of many across the country, joining the national 50501 Movement, which promoted 50 protests in 50 ...
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Anti-Trump protesters gathered outside Mass. State House as part of nationwide action
Crowd gathers on the Boston Common in front of the Massachusetts State House to protest the early actions of the Trump ...
Massachusetts Speaker of the House Ronald Mariano goes 'On The Record' about Massachusetts' federal funding
Massachusetts Speaker of the House Ronald Mariano discusses the state's emergency shelter crisis, recent bills passed by the House, the state auditor auditing the legislature and federal funding under ...