TRANSFER TAX CHANCES —SpeakerRon Marianois leaving the door open to including a real-estate transfer fee in the House’s version of Healey’s housing bond bill. “If you believe that the issue of housing affordability is genuine,”Mariano said during a Greater Boston Chamber of ...
SPOTTED —at the New England delegate welcome party in Chicago: Massachusetts Gov.Maura Healey(rocking the Massachusetts delegation’s custom Converse and taking pictures with delegates); Secretary of StateBill Galvin(wearing sneakers, but not the Chucks); MassDems ChairSteve Kerrigan(wearing the Chuck...
“These workers cared for our communities and are now suffering the consequences . . . Workers shouldn’t be stuck footing the bill for disastrous decisions made by a profit company machine,” she said, while calling on Steward to pay workers severance and PTO....
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 31, 2024 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Simpson, a Pennsylvania regional retirement system that includes Life Plan Communities, affordable housing, home care, and rehabilitation, announced that Dr. Carol McKinley, Simpson President and CEO, and Thomas Lee III, Director of Mainten...
LGBT Aging and co-sponsor the ban on conversion therapy, and more recently, the Healthy Youth Act, legislation to expand HIV Prevention Access for young adults, and the Gender X bill, Peake is truly an advocate for LGBTQ issues. MassEquality PAC is thrilled to endorse her re-election ...
During the public hearing, some in support of the bill argued that many property owners whose homes are being used as Airbnb's for profit have fueled the affordable housing crisis here in the city and believe the city should add even more regulations. ...
Gov. Maura Healey and her administration’smultibillion-dollar housing bond bill,called the Affordable Homes Act, would address these concerns. The poll also found that respondents who tried to find new homes in the past year struggled with having their offers declined; an inabil...
Then again, in 1996, then-popular governor Bill Weld ran against Senator John Kerry and lost 52 to 45 percent. And Baker, who is now president of the NCAA, has expressed no public interest in returning to politics. But Republicans can always dream. When Massachusetts was a swing ...
One of the goals of the bill is to address the lack of low- and moderate-income housing stock in Massachusetts. If passed into law, the bill would require communities to report the ratio of employed residents and available, reasonably priced housing. It will also help measure the negative ef...
“Almost a year ago Trump signed a bill rolling back Obama measure making it harder for mentally ill to get guns” The Daily Beast: “A year ago today, the Senate rolled back an Obama regulation that would have prevented 75,000 severely mentally ill people from buying guns and put them ...