State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill, an independent candidate for governor making a play for fiscally conservative voters, said yesterday that the state's universal health care law is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally if Congress passes a similar plan.
Read More
Massachusetts Senate leaders indicated yesterday that they will push forward significant measures this year to control soaring health care costs in the state that probably will include caps on payments to hospitals and doctors.
Read More
Providing seafood processors with loans? Approved. Prohibiting circumcision of infants? Rejected. Eliminating Bunker Hill Day and Evacuation Day as paid holidays for Suffolk County workers? Not so fast, lawmakers said Tuesday, putting a bill to nix the two controversial holidays into a study, often a death knell for legislation.
Read More
BROCKTON, Mass. — State education officials plan to overhaul the way Massachusetts colleges and universities measure and report student achievement, in an effort to make the public system more relevant to the state economy and to ensure that students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds are being served.
Read More
By Megan Woolhouse and Erin Ailworth, The Boston Globe
Other than to give the governor broad powers to, for example, mobilize resources such as the National Guard, the state of emergency offers no real help for homeowners.
Read More
The cultural legacy of Laurdine "Pat'' Patrick, who died of leukemia in 1991, is like gold for music historians, said officials at the Berklee College of Music, who announced yesterday that they have received a vast collection of the musician's archives as a gift from his son, Governor Deval Patrick.
Read More
Gov. Deval Patrick (D) Elected: November 2006 Term expires: January 2011
The Stimulus and the States Follow how states are managing the stimulus money and which programs are receiving funding as part of the recovery effort using Stateline.org's stimulus special section.
Stateline.org has put together a list of state public policy resources organized by issue. Here, you will find useful links to essential information from government, academia, and think tanks. If you have a link to add, please email us.
The Pew Charitable Trusts applies the power of knowledge to solve today’s most challenging problems. Pew's Center on the States identifies and advances state policy solutions.
Powered by