Government & Politics

State law and the CCC's regulations neither explicitly allow nor prohibit licensed marijuana stores from selling Lottery tickets. But the CCC has, by policy, limited the non-marijuana items its retailers can sell to marijuana accessories like pipes and things like T-shirts or hats that carry the retailer's brand.

A prominent Worcester property investor has sold a Lancaster Street apartment for $1.01 million, just months after buying the building for $860,000.

"We are aware that our state faces urgent budget and shelter crises," the 117 clergy members who signed the letter said, acknowledging that lawmakers have little wiggle room when it comes to budget decisions lately.

Tutwiler said the field is already flooded with "misinformation" about the proposal, stressing that it would not eliminate the MCAS altogether but would instead decouple results from high school graduation requirements.

In January, Dixon was named a 2024 presidential scholar, among 60 nationwide to participate in the ninth class of the leadership program collectively put on by the presidential centers for Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Lyndon Johnson.

Healey highlighted parts of her planned legislation, which she dubbed the "Mass Leads Act," at Somerville-based Form Energy, an energy storage technology and manufacturing company.

The governor's plans to let cities and towns raise local taxes on hotel rooms and restaurant meals surprised some this year, after Healey touted a major tax relief law last year as the landmark accomplishment of her first year in office.

The threat of a looming recession is weakening, but much economic uncertainty remains as financial experts attempt to predict what’s ahead in 2024, according to a leading economic expert.

"We for some reason had urgency in the pandemic that we've lost since the pandemic when, in fact, those same communities are dying, but it's not COVID," Curry told attendees at a Wednesday legislative briefing. "It's diabetes, it's heart disease. It's a whole list of things."

"It gives us more flexibility and the ability to access programs that we've looked at and maybe didn't make the commitment of our own resources going in there," Speaker Mariano said about the bill after the caucus. "But we have this money accumulating interest, we might as well use it to access and leverage federal money. So I think it's a good idea."