Travel through Boston by air and by sea surged to new heights over the past 12 months, setting a pair of new records at facilities overseen by the Massachusetts Port Authority.
The Caribbean community in Massachusetts will stand tall in the midst of “the callousness and the aggression” aimed at them by the federal administration, a former longtime Boston lawmaker told a crowd at the State House on Thursday.
Nicole LaChapelle, the mayor of Easthampton since 2018 and a participant in various Healey administration initiatives in recent years, will replace Brian Arrigo as the new head of the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
After a more than two-year tenure in which she charted the state’s path through the tumultuous Steward Health Care collapse, Massachusetts Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh will step down and hand the reins over to Undersecretary Kiame Mahaniah.
Flanked by health care leaders of color on the State House steps, Sen. Liz Miranda framed her health equity reform omnibus legislation Tuesday as the “only beautiful bill that exists” and as an antidote to the federal megalaw that is expected to cause Medicaid upheaval.
The plea to get a women’s professional basketball team to Boston is cementing its roots deep within the State House with major assists from Dorchester’s Worrell brothers.
On the same day that Donald Trump signed a landmark domestic policy bill that will reshape national and state finances for years to come, Gov. Healey approved a $60.9 billion annual budget and rolled out a companion proposal designed to empower her administration with greater cost-cutting power.
Calling for local sports fans and investors to target the Connecticut Sun, a Boston City Council member says his “very excited” colleagues will “absolutely” approve his resolution Wednesday to support the presence of a professional women’s basketball team in Boston.
Lawmakers reflected on the significance of Juneteenth Wednesday, promising that Massachusetts will fight for and support Black Americans facing headwinds from new federal challenges.
The largest building in New England will officially be renamed next month in honor of the late Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, some eight months after the Legislature ordered the change.
Citing empty offices, the durability of remote work and the impacts of persistently high interest rates, a new report paints a dire picture of commercial real estate in Boston, with potentially negative consequences for residential property taxes, those dependent on city spending and services, and public officeholders who appear unlikely to be able to escape politically unpopular choices.
Debate over a pair of state worker holidays, until now publicly confined to a struggle between good government and historical value arguments, veered this week into the touchy realm of ethnic politics as lawmakers engaged in uncommonly heated exchanges over a Republican-sponsored bill repealing the holidays.
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sounded notes of optimism during a stop in Boston last Wednesday, calling the country’s recovery underway.
“The national economy is showing some initial signs of stability, confidence has improved, the financial system is starting to heal, credit is starting to ease a bit,†Geithner said during a press conference rolling out $1.5 billion in tax credits for nationwide organizations investing in “struggling neighborhoods.â€
Geithner added, “This is just the beginning, however. We have a long way to go.â€
Senate leaders are proposing to spend $1.3 billion less next fiscal year than the House authorized in its budget passed earlier this month, Senate officials said Tuesday.
The draft budget cuts $439 million from Beacon Hill’s aid to cities and towns and wrestles with a fiscal crisis marked by a prolonged plunge in state revenues by making deep spending reductions and leaving the door open to heavy tax hikes.
During an hour-long interview in his Parkman House retreat on Beacon Street last week, Mayor Thomas Menino challenged state government to conceive of an “outside-the-box” solution to the state’s fiscal problems, committed to spend political capital in pursuit of a long-delayed reform to the city’s school transportation program, and doggedly refused to say whether he would run for reelection, even as he assembles a campaign team with the September preliminary seven months away.
