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The Massachusetts State House in Boston

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Groups dropping lawsuit over education disparities

by Katie Lannan State House News ServiceJanuary 27, 2020

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker delivers his state of the state address in the House Chamber, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020, at the Statehouse in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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School funding law leads Baker to propose $304M in new aid

by Katie Lannan State House News ServiceJanuary 23, 2020

Board of Higher Education Chairman Chris Gabrieli said Friday that adoption of the new college closure regulations the latest step in a “process to go from, frankly, surprise, shock and disappointment in an event to some approach that we think is the appropriate approach.”

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State sets college closure screening rules

by Katie Lannan State House News ServiceJanuary 14, 2020

Marc Draisen of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council emceed a press conference Wednesday with lawmakers, local officials and advocates to announce a new coalition supporting real estate transfer fee legislation.

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Mass. property transfer fees seen as solution to housing crisis

by Katie Lannan State House News ServiceJanuary 8, 2020

FILE - In this June 15, 2017, file photo, people walk inside the Oculus, the new transit station at the World Trade Center in New York. According to figures released Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, by the U.S. Census Bureau, the past year’s population growth rate in the United States was the slowest in a century due to declining births, increasing deaths and the slowdown of international migration. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

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Northeast population falls for first time this decade

by Katie Lannan State House News ServiceJanuary 1, 2020

Holbrook Hall at the former Mount Ida College in Newton. The University of Massachusetts Amherst acquired the college's campus last year after entering into an agreement with Mount Ida.

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Boston faculty raise concerns about UMass-Amherst campus in Newton

by Katie Lannan State House News ServiceDecember 19, 2019

The tightening labor market is the “largest drag” on the state’s economy, Eileen McAnneny of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation said Tuesday. UMass Dartmouth professor Michael Goodman, right, said the “biggest threat” is to “our capacity to grow.”

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Experts say labor crunch imperils state growth

by Katie Lannan State House News ServiceDecember 5, 2019

Gov. Baker’s budget chief Michael Heffernan (standing), Ways and Means Vice Chair Sen. Cindy Friedman, and Chairmen Sen. Michael Rodrigues and Rep. Aaron Michlewitz chatted before gaveling in the fiscal 2021 consensus revenue hearing on Wednesday. The annual hearing kicks off the process of crafting next fiscal year’s spending plan.

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Experts: State’s revenue boom will fade in next budget cycle

by Colin A. Young State House News Service, and Katie Lannan State House News ServiceDecember 4, 2019

Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan, Chelsea Police Chief Brian Kyes, Liam Lowney of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito testified Tuesday on a bill from Gov. Charlie Baker that proposes changes to the penalties for minors sharing sexually explicit images.

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Alternatives to felony pitched for teens who share sexual images

by Katie Lannan State House News ServiceDecember 3, 2019

Gov. Charlie Baker picked up the pages of Massachusetts’ new vaping and flavored tobacco law seconds after signing the legislation Wednesday in the State Library.

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State first to ban flavored smokes, vapes

by Katie Lannan State House News ServiceNovember 27, 2019