Results tagged “statelegislature”

• The legislature may revise pension plans to prevent abuses today. [Globe]
• They'll also consider (banning) texting while driving. [WBZ]
• Some local students were present at yesterday's shooting at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. [Herald]

Last night PBS premiered “RX for Survival - A Global Health Challenge,” a three-part, six-hour series on worldwide public health. Focusing on innovations in the last century, including vaccines and antibiotics, the series highlights efforts to eradicate disease around the world and comes at a timely moment: The Massachusetts State Legislature is debating a bill that would change healthcare coverage in the state and the White House just yesterday, released a plan to address the...

Adding another holiday (um, Evacuation Day?) to the calendar, the State Legislature is on the way to approving a day off for sales tax in the Commonwealth again this year. Last year, consumers went wild, spending $400 million on the one sales-tax-free day in August. The proposed bill was set to win approval and would have established this year's tax free day on August 13, but it has been amended to include August 14, the...

Bostonist reported last Monday on a rare display of civility in Massachusetts politics. We also predicted that in no time at all, that civility would end. Well, we were right.