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Business
Progress Software CEO retires after four years at helm »
Boston Business Journal
Progress Software Corp., a Bedford, Massachusetts tech firm with customers including eBay and HP, said Monday that its current CEO will retire as veteran executive Yogesh Gupta takes over as its new c…
Framingham: Shoppers World project on hold »
The Metro West Daily News
Plans for a new residential and retail building at Shoppers World are temporarily on hold after two major tenants pulled out of the project.…
Warren highlights drought's toll on cranberry farmers »
Politico
Pulling on a pair of waders and stepping into a bog, Sen. Elizabeth Warren received a first-hand look at the plight of the state's cranberry farmers on Monday as Massachusetts reckons with an intense,…
Drawing a line »
Commonwealth Magazine
IT'S NOT QUITE a gang war with combatants brandishing mechanical pencils but there's a brewing battle over state regulations that engineering companies say are arcane and outdated but architects insis…
Dell-EMC confirms layoffs »
Boston Business Journal
Two months after Dell's $67 billion buy of EMC, the combined company is confirming layoffs.…
Cambridge's Sullivan Courthouse saga twists yet again »
Curbed Boston
The seemingly never-ending story of the redevelopment of the old Edward J. Sullivan Courthouse in East Cambridge has taken yet another turn.…
Civil Rights
Churches filing lawsuit over transgender rights law »
WWLP 22
Four Mass. churches sue over new transgender law »
Boston Globe
Crimes
Man arrested in connection with unattended item found near State House »
WCVB
Police responded to the Massachusetts State House for a report of an unattended package Monday. …
Domestic Relations
Is being a parent about more than genetics? SJC weighs in »
The Republican
What defines a parent? Is it biology, marriage, intent, child-rearing or something else?…
Education
Charter schools are not 'draining' district budgets »
Commonwealth Magazine
AS THIS NOVEMBER'S ballot initiative on raising the cap on the number of charter public schools in Massachusetts draws closer, opponents find ever-more financial woes to blame on the schools. But a Se…
Cash Flows Through Multiple Channels To Executive At Middleborough Special Education School »
WBUR
The Chamberlain International School, a private residential school facing allegations of student abuse, paid more than $800,000 to entities controlled by its executive director, raising questions of w…
MIT's Bengt Holmström, Harvard's Oliver Hart Receive 2016 Nobel Prize In Economics »
WBUR
Two professors based in Cambridge are now Nobel Prize winners.
Harvard's Oliver Hart and MIT's Bengt Holmström were named today as recipients of the 2016 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.…
Wakefield High School infrastructure problems highlighted »
Wicked Local Wakefield
But they are not being ignored. School Committee members are hoping to achieve a solution – options include a major renovation or building a new high school – to give their students a better learn…
Charter showdown »
Commonwealth Magazine
IN NOVEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS voters will have their say on a ballot question that would allow up to 12 new or expanded charter schools each year above the existing state cap on the independently-run, bu…
Tri-County students hold Mass Insight kickoff event »
The Sun Chronicle
State officials joined students at Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School for a Mass Insight kickoff event.…
Pencils Down: Experiments in Education »
Quanta Magazine
Environment
The Impact Of This Year's Drought On Fall Foliage Season »
WBUR
The air is crisp, the sky is a brilliant blue, the Red Sox are battling to stay in the postseason...it's autumn in New England, no question about it. But this year, you might have noticed that things …
Health Care
Taunton's Dr. Eric Ruby keeps spinal cord injury research on the front burner »
Taunton Gazette
Dr. Eric Ruby was at the Statehouse delivering a message of hope and a rallying cry to persevere in a quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries.…
State cuts off second home health provider, affecting 800 »
Boston Globe
A second home health provider is transferring hundreds of patients after a fraud investigation led the state to cut off Medicaid payments to the company.…
As funding flows, home care waitlist ends »
State House News Service
With a supplemental budget now steering more federal funds into the state's account for elder home care, a waitlist for certain applicants seeking the services came to an end on Friday.…
From critical to cooperative, state group now supports Boston Children's $1B expansion »
Boston Business Journal
The state's health care watchdog has become supportive of a planned $1 billion expansion to Boston Children's Hospital, after saying it could raise health care spending and threaten competitors.…
Thousands of prescribers learning about opioids, pain treatment »
Gloucester Times
Housing
Number of homeless families in Danvers hotel drops »
The Salem News
Human Services
Substance abuse cited as No. 1 reason for DCF cases »
Boston Herald
Substance abuse is the No. 1 factor in child abuse and neglect cases in Massachusetts, according to groundbreaking data that reveals for the first time how the state's drug scourge is driving its daun…
A personal form of charity »
Commonwealth Magazine
THE EXPLOSION OF electronic communication and content sharing have expanded the ways that charities seek donations. They can inexpensively ask for contributions with e-mail and social media posts soli…
Judiciary
Crime and punishment »
Commonwealth Magazine
DIANE MCMANUS SAYS her youngest child, Timothy, is “no street kid.” He was “raised in the church,” she says, a respectful son who minded the rules she set down, even as a teenager growing up i…
Gun group opposes nomination of assistant attorney general as judge »
Wicked Local
Governor Charlie Baker looking for nominees to state's highest court »
WWLP 22
Applicants sought for 2017 SJC vacancies »
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
Labor
'Under the Table' series prompts calls for investigation, legislation »
Gazette Net
State, federal and municipal leaders are calling for an investigation and new legislation targeting the underpayment of immigrant restaurant workers detailed in a recent Gazette series, “Under the T…
Baker picks his battles with organized labor »
Boston Globe
Governor Charlie Baker has aggressively courted constituencies traditionally out of range for Republican politicians, but there is one longtime antagonist of GOP leaders he is increasingly crossing sw…
Local Government
Chatham town leaders subpoenaed in parking lot suit »
Cape Cod Times
Selectmen and other town officials received subpoenas Friday for a deposition later this month in a Barnstable Superior Court civil case.…
Right to farm, marijuana zoning top town meeting warrant in Grafton »
telegram.com
A proposed bylaw that would define a right to farm, and a zoning bylaw amendment designed to tighten control of marijuana dispensaries, are among the highlights on the fall town meeting warrant.…
Opinion
Ellen Story: Support Amherst school project »
Gazette Net
I've been proud of the schools in Amherst ever since moving here in 1972.…
Our view: Bay State donors give Clinton an edge over Trump »
Newburyport News
In politics, especially presidential politics, money talks — even when the voices of voters are effectively muted.…
Hypocrisy runs amok in reaction to Trump tape (Viewpoint) »
The Republican
Let me get this straight. This time, Donald Trump has gone too far.…
The candidate who just doesn't get it »
Boston Globe
Sunday night's presidential debate was enough to leave any sentient person despairing over the state of our republic. Donald Trump has managed to lower the national dialogue to the level of “The Jer…
Politics
Environmental League Action Fund Announces New Wave of General Election Endorsements »
Environmental League of Mass.
As of September 22, 2016 the ELM Action Fund has endorsed the following candidates:
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What The Candidates Didn't Say About Nuclear Weapons »
WBUR
Our military has weathered its share of sexual misconduct scandals in recent years, so it doesn't need a predator or misogynist as commander-in-chief. That Donald Trump's decade-old boast of rampant s…
Why Trump's performance matters in Mass. »
Commonwealth Magazine
REPUBLICAN KATE CAMPANALE stunned the state's political establishment in 2014 by winning the 17th Worcester district House seat, edging out Democrat Douglas Belanger by just 43 votes out of 9,750 cast…
Youth movement »
Commonwealth Magazine
he Amherst town cemetery, sitting on a stone wall circling an old burial plot, not far from Emily Dickinson's grave. Solomon Goldstein-Rose, who won the Democratic primary for an open Amherst-based Ho…
Eric Lesser and Chip Harrington spar over Trump, campaign funding in first debate »
The Republican
There were no personal insults, comparisons to the devil or threats of prosecution at Monday night's State Senate debate, but Democratic Sen. Eric Lesser of Longmeadow and Republican challenger James …
Warren dares governor to 'stand up' to Trump »
Politico
Sen. Elizabeth Warren didn't mince words about Republicans and their party's presidential candidate, Donald Trump, in post-debate comments on Monday.…
South Shore Trump backers stand by their man »
Wicked Local Braintree
For state Republican Party leaders and South Shore town committee chairs, presidential candidate Donald Trump's lewd, taped comments about women are offensive, reprehensible and unacceptable. But they…
Challenger critical of Dooley's backing of Baker's vetoes »
The Sun Chronicle
Democratic challenger Brian Hamlin is knocking state Rep. Shawn Dooley for voting with the governor to cut spending on items such as children's mental health and public safety.…
Massachusetts State Senate Candidates Spar Over Ballot Questions »
State House News Service
Two candidates for a Western Massachusetts state Senate seat disagree sharply over a pair of questions voters will face in November.…
Local GOP pols on Trump comments: 'Neither of them are role models' »
State House News Service
It hasn't exactly been a banner week for the Republican Party.…
Legalizing pot will take money from criminals, says travel show host Rick Steves »
The Republican
In a perfect world, travel writer and TV show host Rick Steves said, he would be talking about legalizing marijuana in a conservative nook of the state, not the University of Massachusetts.…
Elizabeth Warren to gov: Time to 'stand up' and fully disavow Donald Trump »
Boston Herald
An indignant Elizabeth Warren called on Gov. Charlie Baker to publicly disavow Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — rather than simply saying he won't vote for him — on the heels of a le…
After primary wins, enviro fund turns to November legislative races »
State House News Service
Touting victories of five Democrats it endorsed in competitive primaries, an environmentally focused political action committee has gotten behind ten more Democrats who hope to break into the Legislat…
Bump to seek third term as auditor »
State House News Service
Auditor Suzanne Bump plans to run for re-election and will play no role in the day-to-day operations of her late husband's businesses, according to a statement she released Tuesday.…
Some in area GOP stand by Trump after comments, but not all »
Lowell Sun
Ann Wofford, the Haverhill Republican who is challenging Democratic Rep. Niki Tsongas to represent the Massachusetts 3rd Congressional District, makes no attempt to defend the Donald Trump comments th…
2nd Hampden & Hampshire Senate race: JD Parker-O'Grady on guns, marijuana and transgender rights »
The Republican
Massachusetts Auditor Suzanne Bump will finish her term, run for re-election »
The Republican
Auditor to stay in office, looks ahead to reelection campaign in 2018 »
Boston Globe
Wilbraham firefighters union endorses Sen. Eric Lesser »
The Republican
'That's ridiculous,' Sen. Don Humason says of Democratic challenger's claim that he only deals with GOP »
The Republican
Republican challenger calls out Governor's Councilor Eileen Duff for religious questioning »
Wicked Local Ipswich
Michael Dukakis to campaign for Eric Lesser in East Longmeadow »
The Republican
Mass. Fiscal alliance trying new approach to influence elections »
Lowell Sun
Public Health
GE puts philanthropic muscle into opioid fight »
Boston Globe
When General Electric Co. announced in January that it would move its global headquarters to Boston, executives pledged that the company would make health care a top philanthropic priority.…
Youth sports injuries increasing as Mass. leads nation in concussion diagnoses »
South Coast Today
Injuries linked to youth sports are increasing nationally, and Massachusetts tops the country in rates of diagnosed concussions, according to recent medical studies.…
Public Safety
Lawyer looks to ease cops' 'angel' burden with program changes »
The Salem News
The attorney named by Mayor Sefatia Romeo Theken as her liaison to the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative and the police-based Angel Program says he is working toward changes that would…
State Government
Dysfunctional DCR tries to be smarter landlord »
Commonwealth Magazine
Suzanne Bump Is Not Stepping Down »
Boston Patch
Transportation
Milestone marked in Braga Bridge project »
South Coast Today
The years of labor are paying off.…
Commuter rail forum promotes Stoughton, not Middleboro link »
Wicked Local Mattapoisett
Public and private support is growing for extending commuter rail service from Boston to the South Coast of Massachusetts and a former Presidential candidate jumped aboard the Stoughton express Friday…
Utilities
Mass. Regulators Reject DER Surcharge in Rate Case »
RTO Insider
Massachusetts regulators have rejected fees National Grid sought to impose on small commercial and industrial customers that own distributed energy resources (15-155).…
The toughest mile »
Commonwealth Magazine
IN 2008, THE Patrick administration set out to wire 123 cities and towns in western Massachusetts for broadband. But eight years, 1,200 miles of fiber-optic cable, and nearly $100 million later, the e…
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