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State transportation funding task force to miss end-of-year deadline

Some reports have suggested task force members -- who stretch across a range of professional backgrounds and industry interests -- have been split over how far their recommendations to the governor should go.

State legislators wrap up session with late-night voting frenzy

Top Democrats needed a few extra months to reach agreements on major laws this session, but wrapped up business for the term with almost a day to spare and New Year's Eve plans intact.  

State legislature advances 16 bills as end of session looms

Thursday's action included three bills newly advanced by the Senate Ways and Means Committee.

New law streamlines licensing process for foreign-trained physicians

Foreign-trained physicians in Massachusetts are poised to return to practicing medicine under a new law that is also expected to alleviate primary care shortages for underserved and rural communities.
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Business owners decry RMV’s mass CDL revoke as life-and-death situation

Top Democrats suggested they're open to Gov. Maura Healey's legislative push to minimize upheaval for hundreds of commercial drivers, in the process lamenting a bipartisan failure that contributed to the need for action so late in the lawmaking term.

Movers & Shakers for Nov. 25, 2024

Employees at Assumption University, Fidelity Bank, and Mirick O'Connell are advancing in their careers.

Gov. Healey signs long-awaited $4B life sciences, climatech bill into law

Gov. Maura Healey spent months clamoring for lawmakers to finish work on a sweeping jobs package she filed in March, and she wound up needing only about 60 percent of the time allotted for her review before making it law.

🔒Continued flexibility: To attract top talent, Central Mass. employers still are in a workers’ market

Four and a half years after the COVID-19 pandemic altered the configuration of the U.S. workforce, Central Massachusetts employers are still navigating the reverberations of a landscape that changed overnight.
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Gov. Healey launches new higher ed affordability commission featuring Worcester State employee

Healey's appointees to the commission include Mary Jo Marion, associate vice president of Worcester State University.

Bill expanding breast cancer screening coverage awaits Gov. Healey’s approval

Massachusetts residents are poised to gain expanded access to follow-up breast cancer screenings and exams under a bill that is headed to Gov. Maura Healey's desk.
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