On Monday, SJC Justice Frank Gaziano denied the State Ballot Law Commission’s appeal of an Essex County Superior Court ruling that overturned the commission’s decision and reinstated Walsh’s name onto the ballot.
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The commission plans to appeal the decision to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, according to a spokesperson for MassDems.
With election season heating up, the governor did not make any vetoes to the package, according to a Healey spokesperson.
Legislators have proposed 688 ways to change an economic development bill the House plans to pass Wednesday. Some amendments carry statewide implications as representatives look to squeeze as many of their priorities as possible into the late-session legislation.
The Commonwealth’s error rate exceeded the national rate of 10.6 percent as well as the 6 percent threshold that Congress approved as part of a law intended to force states to be more vigilant about oversight.
The compromise features an increase of $2.37 billion or 3.9% over the budget Healey signed last July and roughly $54.3 million larger than the fiscal year 2027 budget she proposed in January.
An even-year July 31 is always a critical crossroads for the House and Senate, but rules changes this time around mean it will look different than it has for the past two decades. And as the House budget chief put it, “it can’t go worse” than last term.
Healey said the hold on applications for the 20-year sales and use tax exemption for qualified data centers will remain in effect “until we have strong protections in place for our residents and communities against higher gas and electric bills.”
Governor in January sought ideas by June, working group member says it’s reached ‘midpoint of the process’
A trio of good-government and transparency organizations backed the House’s proposal to craft a new public records framework for the Legislature, but they’re straining to avoid the riptide of the audit-the-Legislature debate that representatives tied to the same bill.