Due to economic uncertainties associated with the Trump administration’s federal departmental-efficiency agenda and tariff policies, we all should plan for some belt-tightening, at least in the ...

Lobbyists, let’s face it, make their living — and a darned good one it often is — by ingratiating themselves with lawmakers ...

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts says it will soon stop covering popular drugs for weight loss, like Ozempic and ...

The proposed cut to the DMH caseload manager workforce was one that a handful of lawmakers took issue with Monday. Another ...

"I feel like we’re trying to budget on quicksand at the moment,” state Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa, D-1st Hampshire, said.

While the state’s UI crisis should have been dealt with several years ago when Massachusetts’ coffers were overflowing with money from D.C. and excess state tax revenue, the time for action is ...

House Democrats will push for a significant increase in state spending after months of voicing discomfort about federal ...

But if a lawmaker happens to lead a nonprofit — as is the case for a handful of lawmakers on Beacon Hill — lobbyists and business interests have a third, more secretive way. D ...

They can't have both." On the same day the BCBS news broke, the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission met on Beacon Hill to go over a budget shortfall. The GIC has 460,000 members and provides ...

Thoreau had his cabin. Twain had his billiards room. Why shouldn’t you?