Government & Politics

Congressman Jake Auchincloss and a pair of his colleagues are worried a right-to-repair compromise struck this summer will carry a range of negative consequences for consumers, and they want a meeting with regulators to better understand the path forward.

The Worcester City Council voted last Tuesday to set a commercial, industrial ,and personal property tax rate of $30.04 per $1,000 assessed valuation for fiscal 2024, a $1.22 decrease from the fiscal 2023 rate of $31.26.

Governor Maura Healey’s Administration issued $19 million this year in funding from the state’s Workforce Training Funding Program through October, a number including more than $3.9 million in support of training for 2,500+ jobs in Central Massachusetts.

“I’ve never been as worried about health care as I am right now."

Enrollment has hit a 10-year low at all five of the state universities and community colleges in Central Massachusetts, with a considerable drop between fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2023.

Concerned about the tiny percentage of sports bettors who have so far used things like time or deposit limits, the Mass. Gaming Commission is working to convene a roundtable with operators, industry experts and more to talk about how they might be able to make responsible gambling tools "cool."

The governor said her administration "more than doubled" the list of programs whose funding can be withheld from non-compliant cities and towns.

The team has declined to give a purchase price on the sale to Diamond Baseball Holdings, but at the request of WBJ, a Holy Cross professor has estimated the team's valuation based on revenues, market size, and the new stadium.

More than a decade after Massachusetts enacted a landmark law designed to contain health care cost growth, the trend continues to head in the wrong direction, spawning warnings from regulators and industry leaders.

The One Fair Wage Campaign have reached the signature threshold needed to have the measure placed on the 2024 ballot.