Deval Patrick

While some partisan rifts remain, House and Senate leaders from both parties overcame their differences on Friday to pass an $86 million budget bill intended to close the books on fiscal 2014, which ended on July 1.

For the third straight year, jobs in the Massachusetts clean energy industry experienced double-digit growth, increasing by 10.5 percent between July 2013 and 2014, Gov. Deval Patrick announced Monday in Brighton.