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By Casey Ross, The Boston Globe
As the top economic official in Massachusetts government, Gregory Bialecki is responsible for giving away hundreds of millions of dollars to revive the state's troubled economy. There's just one problem: He can't find enough good candidates for the money.
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By Patrick Cassidy, Cape Cod Times
Senate President Therese Murray, D-Plymouth, and Sen. Karen Spilka, D-Framingham, filed a bill yesterday to streamline economic development statewide. The bill includes a provision that would consolidate oversight of regional economic development organizations within a single office.
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On the clock, clerk is a wedding casher
By Jessica Van Sack and Richard Weir, Boston Herald
Wedding bells are ringing at Boston City Hall - and so is the cash register - as the city clerk is nearly doubling her salary hitching couples as a justice of the peace on taxpayer time, raising questions whether her profits should be going back to Hub coffers instead.
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Pols wary of governor's Pike plan
By Hillary Chabot, Boston Herald
Beacon Hill power players warned Gov. Deval Patrick to slow down yesterday on a plan he's considering that would eliminate toll takers and install a high-speed electronic toll system on the Massachusetts Turnpike
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Patrick tries to regain grass roots
By Michael Levenson, The Boston Globe
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For Governor Deval Patrick, who was swept into office a little more than three years ago by a popular groundswell, it was a strikingly candid concession.
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Outcry threatens Lawrence bailout
By Peter Schworm, The Boston Globe
State legislators are criticizing a $35 million bailout plan for the cash-strapped city of Lawrence, as Beacon Hill prepares to debate the proposal amid growing public outcry over the new mayor's refusal to resign his state representative post.
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The seventh annual Hal Hovey Award was presented Feb. 3 to Marc Perrusquia, an enterprise and investigative reporter for The Commercial Appeal, the daily newspaper in Memphis Tenn. The award is made jointly by Stateline.org, which is part of the Pew Center on the States, and Governing Magazine for outstanding coverage of state and local government. | |
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