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Healthcare chief forecasts choppy summer for MassHealth members
June 12, 2023Residents are in for a "very choppy summer" as the state's massive redetermination effort to gauge eligibility for 2.4 million MassHealth members unfolds, Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh said Thursday.
June 12, 2023
Real Estate Insider: As the State seeks to increase housing construction, some towns pump the brakes
Updated: June 12, 2023Multifamily residential developers have been proposing thousands of apartments throughout Central Massachusetts, but communities are resisting the push for more housing to protect their resources and what residents and officials see as their town’s
Updated: June 12, 2023
Cannabis comes of age: Five years in, regulators face a new set of issues
Updated: June 12, 2023When the first recreational cannabis dispensaries in Massachusetts opened in November 2018, their parking lots assumed a festive air as people lined up, sometimes for hours, to get the newly legal product. Nearly five years later, legal cannabis has
Updated: June 12, 2023
Estate tax, housing credits headline $590M state Senate tax relief plan
June 9, 2023Senate Democrats on Thursday advanced a long-awaited tax relief package, and both branches and the governor have now all rolled out proposals to cut costs for Massachusetts residents and make the state more competitive.
June 9, 2023
Report: 15 Central Mass. communities among many Mass. towns flouting CPA’s housing requirements
June 7, 2023While Beacon Hill searches for solutions to the serious housing shortage that fuels affordability concerns in Massachusetts, a real estate industry organization wants to see the Community Preservation Act program retrofitted to put a greater
June 7, 2023
Despite shortfalls, Worcester anticipates making Polar Park debt payments as promised
Updated: June 6, 2023As was the case for the first two years of debt payments, the saving grace for the current fiscal year 2023 and the next fiscal year 2024 is a $3-million property sale from 2021.
Updated: June 6, 2023
Healey commits to extending life sciences law
June 6, 2023Gov. Maura Healey plans to continue a high-dollar commitment to the life sciences sector that began under former Gov. Deval Patrick, and her administration is also launching a new platform to recruit diverse hires to the sector and provide training
June 6, 2023-
Tax collections rebound after steep drop in April
June 6, 2023State tax revenues surpassed expectations in May after an unexpectedly steep nosedive in April, yet the total haul remains hundreds of millions of dollars short of projections with the budget year drawing to a close, officials said Monday.
June 6, 2023 
New housing secretary Edward Augustus promises more housing, offers few details
June 2, 2023Former Worcester City Manager Ed Augustus was sworn in on Thursday morning as the state's first Cabinet-level housing secretary in three decades, saying he is focused on increasing housing production, but staying mum on specific policies that
June 2, 2023
Devens fusion company awarded slice of $46M DOE milestone program
June 1, 2023Commonwealth Fusion Systems is one of eight companies nationwide to receive funding as part of an effort to produce a pilot-scale demonstration of fusion energy generation within a decade.
June 1, 2023
MassBioEd: More workers needed for 42K new life sciences jobs coming by 2032
May 31, 2023Attracting and diversifying a robust talent pool is a primary concern in keeping up with the growth of the life science industry in Massachusetts, according to the 2023 Massachusetts Life Sciences Employment Outlook report.
May 31, 2023
Central Mass. life science companies receive $3.7M in state tax breaks
May 31, 2023Five life science companies with significant operations in Central Mass. were among the 43 firms across Massachusetts chosen to split $24.4 million in tax incentive awards.
May 31, 2023
Fare-free MBTA bus pilot sputters out in Senate
May 30, 2023A group of senators were unable to convince their colleagues to recommend money for the MBTA to run fare-free bus pilot programs.
May 30, 2023
Healey again points to new secretariat as housing solution
May 30, 2023A Boston Globe report that found the Democrat-dominated Legislature contains nearly twice as many landlords as it does lawmakers who rent their homes. The story generated significant buzz in Beacon Hill's orbit, but Gov. Maura Healey on Friday did
May 30, 2023
Insurance regulators examining Point32Health data breach
May 30, 2023State insurance regulators have opened an examination into a cyberattack on one of the state's largest health insurance providers.
May 30, 2023
Resuscitated: Family Health Center's return from the brink
Updated: May 29, 2023After closing key facilities and operating on mere hours of cash, the Family Health Center of Worcester is in a more stable financial position, in part due to higher insurance reimbursements.
Updated: May 29, 2023
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