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By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — Attempting to restart a debate that skidded out last summer, the Healey administration on Monday rolled out an $859 million tax relief proposal that would offer new breaks to hundreds of thousands of Bay Staters while reforming the estate tax...

By COLIN A. YOUNG

The budget that Gov. Maura Healey will file next week will boost the largest source of state education aid by almost 10% in what the administration said would be the biggest percentage increase since the last millennium.Local officials and then the...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — The first-ever state budget season for Gov. Maura Healey will feature a pair of addresses before audiences eager for her and the Legislature to enact long-sought tax reform.Healey will be the headlining guest at two regional business group...

By Sam Drysdale

In addition to the creation of promised reproductive health care and police accountability units, the attorney general’s office will be adding a gun enforcement unit and government accountability working group under Andrea Campbell’s purview.Campbell...

By COLIN A. YOUNG

School districts could be facing a fiscal cliff when pandemic-era federal funds start to run out and “are either going to need to develop those wings or prepare for a pretty significant fiscal crash,” former Education Secretary James Peyser said...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

-The Healey administration is “putting the final touches” on tax legislation with a plan to roll it out alongside the annual state budget bill due March 1, Gov. Maura Healey said Wednesday.In a live radio interview that also touched on the nascent...

By Sam Drysdale

The state needs to take action to make remote participation in town meetings permanent, according to the president of the Local Government Advisory Commission.In Lexington, where LGAC President Jill Hai is a select board member, representatives at...

By CHRIS LISINSKI

The $15 minimum wage that kicked into effect Jan. 1 was years in the making and took more than five more years to be implemented. Now, with the new rate just setting in, key power players have set their sights on making Massachusetts the first state...

By MICHAEL P. NORTON

Coyotes are present in every Massachusetts city and town, according to state wildlife officials, who are out Tuesday with new tips to prevent rare “negative coyote encounters” during their ongoing mating season.“Whenever you see a coyote in your yard,...

By COLIN YOUNG

When they get their bills in March, most gas customers in Massachusetts are going see a decrease of 4 or 5 percent after the Department of Public Utilities this week approved a mid-season reduction in gas supply charges as natural gas prices drop.Gas...