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Beltway Politics
GOP governors dodge family separations fallout »
Politico
‘Separating children from their parents is bad policy and heartbreaking,’ said one governor.…
Business
Startup aims to make allies of human gut’s microbes »
Boston Globe
It sounds like a preposterous idea: Collect a sample of every type of bacteria that lives in the human gut. But that’s the goal of Bernat Olle, an MIT-trained chemical engineer. …
Wedding bells are ringing, but justices of the peace aren’t getting the call »
Boston Globe
These days, many newlyweds have touching stories about how they bucked tradition by choosing to be married by a family member or friend — an increasingly common practice in Massachusetts, where gett…
BJ's IPO could value company over $2B »
Worcester Business Journal
Westborough bulk retailer BJ's Wholesale Club said it is anticipating selling 37.5 million shares for between $15 and $17 in its initial public offering, a price valuing the company at over $2 billion…
In The Running For Amazon's HQ2, Suffolk Downs Turns Toward Redevelopment »
WBUR
The Suffolk Downs racetrack is one of 20 sites still in the running to become Amazon's second headquarters. The stakes: 50,000 high-paying jobs.
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Student loan firm to pay $44k in refunds »
Berkshire Eagle
Education
Layoffs possible at Quincy College »
Patriot Ledger
Quincy College nursing program faculty members are at risk of layoff, as the college struggles to make up for millions in lost tuition because the state has shut down the program.…
Environment
Environmental bond bill with local earmarks passes House »
The Recorder
The $2 billion state environmental bond bill that passed the House last week includes money for projects in Greenfield, Colrain, Orange and other Franklin County communities.…
Seashore advisory board meets, but uncertainty lingers »
Cape Cod Times
More than a year after it was last allowed to meet by the federal government, the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission convened Monday to catch up, moving through a full agenda amid continue…
Federal
Political Notes: 'Breaking up families is cruel,' Tedeschi says »
Cape Cod Times
Peter Tedeschi, a Republican candidate challenging incumbent U.S. Rep. William Keating, D-Mass., in the 9th Congressional District race, has joined the growing chorus of politicians condemning separat…
Children’s wails sharpen outcry over border policy »
Boston Globe
President Trump has vanquished Republicans and Democrats with his mastery of the media and disregard for facts. With denials and by shifting blame to victims, he has survived allegations of sexual abu…
Baker Cancels National Guard Deployment To Border, Citing 'Inhumane' Treatment Of Children And Families »
WGBH
Governor Charlie Baker is canceling the deployment of Massachusetts National Guard troops to the border in light of recent reports about the Trump Administration’s practice of separating immigrant c…
Romney calls for ‘disturbing’ family separations to stop »
The Washington Post
Republican Senate candidate Mitt Romney called on the Trump administration Monday to stop separating immigrant families at the southern border, calling the controversy a “humanitarian crisis” that…
Joe Kennedy III Railed Against Family Separation Policy at a “Tent City” in Texas »
Boston Globe
Massachusetts Dems are sounding the alarm over inhumanity at the border.
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Gaming
Massachusetts Sports Betting Must Wait Until 2019, Says Gov. Charlie Baker: Slow and Steady Outlook Called For »
Casino.org
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker says the Bay State will look seriously at legalizing sports betting, but he doesn’t see it happening this year.…
Health Care
SJC clears measure on nurse staffing ratio for November ballot »
Boston Globe
The state’s highest court cleared the way on Monday for voters to express their views on nurse staffing levels in Massachusetts hospitals, ruling in favor of a ballot petition backed by the Massachu…
Mass. House seeks $450 million to prop up struggling community hospitals »
Boston Globe
The Massachusetts House of Representatives on Tuesday will take up legislation that would slap $450 million in new assessments on the health care industry to prop up struggling community hospitals but…
Southcoast Health reviews culture, fires two after allegations of sexual misconduct »
Boston Business Journal
Southcoast Health System has fired two employees and completed a review of its workplace policies in the wake of sexual harassment and misconduct allegations that involved not only female employees bu…
House seeks to help community hospitals with $450M assessment on insurers, large hospitals
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Boston Business Journal
A House bill that would assist struggling community hospitals by levying $450 million in new assessments on insurers and large hospitals over the next three years will be debated Tuesday.
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Immigration
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey calls Trump administration's family separation policy 'immoral and reprehensible' »
The Republican
Maura Healey joins other AGs in calling for end of family separation at border »
Fox 25 News
Labor
Reinstated Whittier workers say they were blocked from center »
Boston Globe
A group of Whittier Street Health Center workers who were laid off suddenly late last week, then apparently reinstated on Sunday, said they were kicked off the property when they tried to attend a sta…
Nurses applaud SJC ruling on staffing that allows ballot question »
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Representatives of the Massachusetts Nurses Association are counting down the days until the November election after the state’s highest court ruled Monday that a petition initiative that limits the…
Spilka: Breakthrough might be imminent on paid leave »
State House News Service
Local Government
Sunderland is 300 years old, and three residents have lived there a third of that »
The Recorder
With horns honking, children cheering and brass bands blaring, Sunderland was alive with the sounds of happiness.…
Legal claim says city ‘deceived and defrauded’ in enforcing false License Commission rules »
Cambridge Day
The city has received a legal complaint from a half-dozen of its most recognizable names in food and entertainment saying they have been “deceived and defrauded” by Cambridge agencies and official…
Survey: Worcester voters want ballot question on Community Preservation Act »
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
City voters appear to clearly want the opportunity to decide at the ballot box whether to adopt the Community Preservation Act.…
Waltham's Nabulime announces run for Ward 6 council seat »
Wicked Local Waltham
Marijuana
Charlton pot farm battle is taken to the state »
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Residents have taken the pot farm battle to state authorities and will petition selectmen at a board meeting Tuesday to rescind a host agreement that could bring the largest marijuana business in the …
Opinion
The EU melting pot is melting down »
Boston Globe
One hundred ten years ago the British author Israel Zangwill completed his play “The Melting Pot.” Premiered in Washington in October 1908 — where it was enthusiastically applauded by President …
Misguided millionaires tax was a nonstarter »
Boston Globe
Make no mistake, Massachusetts just dodged the economic bullet that the so-called millionaires tax would have been.…
Laura Bush and Melania Trump break through the madness on immigration policy »
Boston Globe
It’s women’s work. Because, after all, it involves children. That must be why Laura Bush — with some assistance from Melania Trump — became the voice of reason and Republican outrage over chil…
Harvard can’t have it all »
The Washington Post
Rule No. 1 of successful litigation: find yourself a sympathetic plaintiff. The anti-affirmative action activists behind the current lawsuit charging Harvard University with racial discrimination in u…
Elizabeth Warren can unify Democrats and take back the White House »
The Hill
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has been very vocal of late. She recently leveled sharp criticism against Democrats who bowed before the “billionaire class” and voted to weaken the restraints on t…
President Trump must put an end to family separation »
Boston Herald
President Trump is clearly doing a bad job of marketing the whole “family separation” policy at the U.S. Mexican border, so maybe what he needs is a better name.…
Howie Carr: Working stiffs catch break as court nixes 'millionaire tax' ploy »
Boston Herald
The “millionaire tax” is dead, and no matter how much money you make, that’s great news for you — at least if you’re not a hack or an illegal immigrant.…
Christopher K. Powell: Reacts to comments about Senate candidates »
Gazette Net
After reading “Gender & Politics” by Dave Eisenstadter (June 9-10), I had to respond to the line drawn in the sand by Rachel Gordon whose comments were hard to believe.
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Study: N-S Rail Link cost at least $12.3b »
Commonwealth Magazine
Dukakis says numbers have 'no relation to reality'
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Auditor on target with park mismanagement probe (Editorial) »
The Republican
Politics
3rd District candidate Rufus Gifford made splash in Denmark -- and Danish documentary followed every step of the way »
Lowell Sun
In the penultimate episode of the documentary series "I Am the Ambassador," Rufus Gifford visits a Danish high school and is greeted eagerly by beaming students snapping pictures on their phones as if…
Sen. L’Italien Rallies Supporters During Weekend Canvass in Haverhill »
WHAV
As September’s congressional primary inches closer, Sen. Barbara L’Italien is making her platform known across the Merrimack Valley. On Saturday, L’Italien was joined by supporters, including st…
State Representative Candidate Robinson Hosting Kick-Off Celebration on June 25 »
Framingham Source
On Monday, June 25, the Committee to Elect Maria Robinson will host a kick off celebration, marking the official start of her write-in campaign for state representative.
The event is open to the publi…
Governor candidate Gonzalez visits Northampton, gets endorsement »
Gazette Net
As November draws closer, eyes are on Democratic primaries across the country as the party looks to define its opposition to Donald Trump and the Republican Party.…
What’s next for Mass. progressives now that the ‘millionaires tax’ has been tossed out by court? »
Boston Globe
Public Health
As Massachusetts mulls changing smoking age to 21, questions remain »
Wicked Local
The effort to increase the tobacco sales age limit to 21 years will undoubtedly cut into the revenue of convenience stores, including the 7-Eleven Dennis Lane has owned for 44 years.…
Public Safety
'It Can Happen To Anybody': Judge From Trooper Case Says Daughter Is 'Just A Kid With A Substance Use Disorder' »
WBUR
Thousands of parents in Massachusetts are dealing with a child with a substance use disorder — but few are dealing with it in such public a manner as Dudley District Court Judge Tim Bibaud.…
State Government
Berkshire County veterans oppose statue of African-American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois »
The Republican
A group of Berkshire County veterans oppose plans to install a statue of W.E.B. Du Bois in front of the Great Barrington library, saying the scholar's association with Communism disqualifies him from …
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Why Some States and Cities Want to Secede »
Governing
The push to form new governments is heating up in places from Georgia to California.
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Gonzalez blasts Baker for quasi-public agency pay hikes »
Boston Herald
Taxation
Business Groups Applaud, While Progressives Bemoan 'Millionaire's Tax' Ruling »
WBUR
Business groups in Massachusetts are applauding, and progressive activists and organized labor are expressing disappointment, after the Supreme Judicial Court on Monday rejected the so-called "Fair Sh…
Voters won’t be able to weigh in on the millionaires tax. How about the Legislature? »
Boston Globe
In a decision policy makers and advocates have waited for months to arrive, the Supreme Judicial Court on Monday sounded a death knell for the so-called “millionaires tax.”…
Court blocks 'millionaire tax' question from state ballot »
Boston Herald
Massachusetts' highest court on Monday struck down a proposed "millionaire tax" ballot question, blocking it from going before state voters in November and ending advocates' hopes for generating some …
Democrats look to regroup in wake of millionaire's tax ruling »
The Enterprise
No longer a political safety net, the death of the “millionaire’s tax” ballot question on Monday could put Beacon Hill Democrats in the hot seat leading into this year’s elections to either sc…
Tax debate returns to Legislature after SJC strikes down Massachusetts millionaire's tax »
MassLive
The Supreme Judicial Court on Monday effectively threw the battle over taxes in Massachusetts back to the state Legislature.
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SJC knocks millionaires tax off November ballot »
Commonwealth Magazine
Court rules provisions of question not sufficiently related
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Grand bargain talks can now begin in earnest »
Commonwealth Magazine
https://commonwealthmagazine.org/the-download/grand-bargain-talks-can-now-begin-in-earnest/…
The Supreme Judicial Court Just Killed the Millionaire’s Tax »
Boston Globe
An idea with overwhelming support statewide has been stricken from the ballot.
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Transportation
North-South rail link would cost $12b, maybe much more, study estimates »
Boston Globe
Connecting the North and South train stations in Boston by tunnel would come at a Big Dig-level cost of at least $12 billion, and possibly as high as $21.5 billion, state officials said Monday.…
Parking prices will go up at 32 T stations, to as high as $10 a day — but drop at others »
Boston Globe
MBTA riders avoided a fare increase this year, but some will be paying more to park at train stations.…
'It was great': Now arriving, the first batch of CTrail Hartford Line weekday riders at Springfield's Union Station »
The Republican
Marcello Toro took Monday what he hopes was the first of many trips on CTrail and the Hartford Line from Hartford to Springfield's Union Station.…
Ten-dollar fees part of $8.5 million MBTA parking $$$ plan »
State House News Service
Drivers who park and ride from MBTA facilities during the work week will pay steeper prices at the more popular garages but could receive discounts at underused lots, under a policy adopted by the MBT…
MBTA to try surge pricing for parking »
Commonwealth Magazine
THE MBTA PLANS to adjust rates at its 99 parking facilities starting August 1 in a way that hikes prices at its busiest garages during the week and lowers them when and where customers are scarce – …
T urges Red-Blue pedestrian link »
Commonwealth Magazine
STATE TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS, as part of a draft to-do list for 2040, said they are considering building a pedestrian link between the Red and Blue Lines.…
Straus: Rail link info shows project "expensive and unnecessary" »
State House News Service
A new projection of what it would take to build an underground rail link between North and South stations bolsters the argument against the project, according to Rep. William Straus, House chairman of…
State urging feedback on MBTA's unlimited opportunities »
State House News Service
Utilities
Savoy, Florida back wireless route to last-mile internet »
Berkshire Eagle
Two Berkshires communities bringing up the rear on last-mile internet access have picked a business partner — one that would not cost local taxpayers a dime. …
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