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Massachusetts unemployment insurance fund may need U.S. bailout again.
By Scott S. Greenberger, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 13--The Massachusetts unemployment insurance fund is once again teetering on the brink of insolvency, less than a year after legislators retooled it to put it on a solid financial footing....
GOP hardens stand against gay marriage.
The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 26--NEW YORK -- Members of the Republican Party's platform committee yesterday strengthened the party's official opposition to same-sex marriages, a day after Vice President Dick Cheney broke with the Bush administration by saying...
Massachusetts lawmakers give rainy-day amendment initial approval.
By Raphael Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 8--The Massachusetts Legislature overwhelmingly approved a proposed constitutional amendment yesterday to safeguard the state's rainy-day reserves by earmarking 1 percent of tax revenues each year for the fund, marking a...
Massachusetts Governor Seeks Authority to Delay Same-Sex Marriage.
By Raphael Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 16--Governor Mitt Romney yesterday asked the Legislature for special authority to seek a stay of the Supreme Judicial Court's landmark ruling that legalized samesex marriage, but Senate President Robert E....
Speaker of Massachusetts House Vows to Hold Up Gay Marriage Ruling.
The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 6--House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran vowed yesterday to explore all options for the Legislature to delay implementation of the Supreme Judicial Court ruling legalizing gay marriage, although legal specialists and other legislative leaders...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Plan to Override $40 Million Vetoed by Governor.
By Scott S. Greenberger, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 12--Legislators this week plan to restore about $40 million that Governor Mitt Romney vetoed from a "economic stimulus" bill at the end of last year, escalating a growing war between...
Massachusetts House Speaker Endorses Property Tax Cushion for Homeowners.
By Scott S. Greenberger, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 18--Breaking his long public silence on the issue, House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran yesterday signaled his support for a bill that would allow Boston and nearly 50 other cities to...
Democrats Eye More for Massachusetts Jobless Fund.
By Raphael Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 18--Massachusetts employers would pay $460 million more in annual contributions to the state's unemployment insurance trust fund, or about $200 more per worker, under a plan detailed yesterday by Democratic...
Massachusetts Port Authority Proposes Bridge Toll Hike.
By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 14--Massachusetts drivers could soon be hit with another toll increase, driven in part by the costs of the Big Dig. The Massachusetts Port Authority has proposed increasing the tolls ...
Brookline, Mass., Considers Opening Public Schools to Paying Customers.
By Megan Tench, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 1--In an attempt to bolster a shrinking budget, Brookline public school leaders want to invite Boston parents to pay out of pocket to send their children to top-notch schools in the...
Massachusetts Budget Cuts Pend As Speaker of State House Travels.
By Rick Klein, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 9--House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran is scheduled to leave the state today for two weeks of business and pleasure in Hawaii, amid a standoff between Governor Mitt Romney and legislative leaders over...
Lawmakers Approve Bill Protecting East Boston Project.
The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 20--The Legislature has slipped through a measure to insulate a sprawling East Boston development -- and perhaps many others in the future -- from most legal challenges by groups that want to preserve access...
Massachusetts High Court Calls Inheritance Law Outdated.
By Kathleen Burge, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 13--The state's highest court yesterday called the law designed to protect a surviving spouse from losing everything if a husband or wife dies "outdated and inade...uate." But a...
Massachusetts Governor Seeks to Curb Building on Public Parkland.
By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 29--Alarmed by the loss of hundreds of acres of open space, the Romney administration acted yesterday to sharply curtail the practice by cities and towns of putting schools or other buildings...
Massachusetts Governor Slams Legislature for Softening English-Immersion Law.
By Anand Vaishnav, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 16--Governor Mitt Romney yesterday chastised the Legislature for loosening the state's new voter-approved English immersion law, branding it an act of "unfathomable arrogance" and vowing to oust legislators who backed...
Boston Waterfront Pavilion Will Remain at Harbor.
By Chris Reidy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 13--FleetBoston Pavilion, a venue popular with summer concertgoers but controversial among harbor advocates, should remain in its South Boston waterfront location for the foreseeable future because of a legislative ...
Developers Get Mixed Signals on Affordable Housing for Boston-Area Town.
By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 10--The land is an anonymous parcel off Route 1, just south of the Lion's Den strip club and the giant plastic shark that hangs from its tail in front of Hudson's...
Massachusetts Legislature's Plan to Raise Fees Targets Cars, Parking.
By Rick Klein, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 8--Bay State motorists would be hit with higher parking and towing fees, those who lease cars would have to pay twice as much in local surcharges, and ferry passengers to the Cape...
Massachusetts Governor Vetoes Bilingual Education Program.
By Anand Vaishnav, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 1--Governor Mitt Romney yesterday moved to end "two-way" bilingual education programs and opted to skip an expanded appeals process intended to help disabled high schoolers receive diplomas even if they...
Massachusetts Residents Debate Housing Law.
By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 26--Lawmakers are finding themselves torn as they hear desperate stories from both sides of an ongoing struggle to reform the state's 34-year-old affordable housing law. If it weren't...
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