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OGDENSBURG — A letter sent to the city of Ogdensburg by the United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development said that a report on the feasibility of ...

Robert Whitcomb's weekly examination of everything that is important. Only Whitcomb offers such a collection of insights on the global and local issues that ...

BOSTON — The drawn-out wrangling over details of a nearly $43 billion spending plan earned Massachusetts a new distinction on Thursday: It became the only ...

From a Montana Supreme Court ruling on foreign assets to a move for due diligence in Wisconsin, Quarles & Brady LLP's David Brunori offers his views on this ...

BOSTON — The drawn-out wrangling over details of a nearly $43 billion spending plan earned Massachusetts a new distinction on Thursday: It became the only ...

BOSTON — A bill designed to rev up the state's reliance on renewable energy by imposing a charge on carbon emissions is gaining steam at the Massachusetts ...

On the Thursday, July 11 edition of Bloomberg Baystate Business we talked about state budget negotiations with State House News *Service* senior reporter Matt ...

In this Policy Tip Sheet, Matthew Glans examines gasoline taxes, how they have become less effective over time, and why states can no longer rely on them to ...

Posted by Thomas Mitchell | Jun 27, 2019 | Editorials, Top Stories | 3. Nevada should reject 50 percent renewable energy. Are Nevada voters and lawmakers ...

Shrewsbury State Representative Hannah Kane opposed a new push from a group of Massachusetts Legislators to amend the state Constitution by creating a ...

AEP says it's working to meet strong demand for renewables, but wants its customers to pay to fund a "clean coal" group that's attacking solar & wind power.

A federal judge who was suspended without pay and charged with obstruction after allegedly helping an illegal alien accused of a crime escape from ...

The Neutrality in State Government Contracting bill is meant to level the field for Texas' construction workforce.

Watchdogs are slamming the University of Massachusetts system's thousands of six-figure salaries as excessive — as UMass seeks more money from the state ...

By MELINDA WILLIAMS. melinda@southwesttimes.com. After a couple of years in sixth place, Virginia leaped into the top spot in the nation for business site ...

LOWELL — City Councilors want to hire local laborers to build the Lowell High School project. They want to set requirements for apprenticeship opportunities ...

Watchdogs are slamming the University of Massachusetts system's thousands of six-figure salaries as excessive — as UMass seeks more money from the state ...

To the editor: The Chicken Little angst emanating from several quarters regarding the state's adoption of an increased minimum hourly wage is overblown ...

It was years in the making. Getting everyone on the same page to build Lowell High School downtown was a contentious, complicated drawn-out debate, that ...

It was years in the making. Getting everyone on the same page to build Lowell High School downtown was a contentious, complicated drawn-out debate, that ...

Municipal bond lobbyists differ on whether Congress will reinstate advance refunding for munis in the next year or two, although they do agree the biggest ...

Governor Ralph Northam celebrated Virginia's rise to first-in-the-nation in Site Selection magazine's annual Prosperity Cup ranking.

For the first time in five years, 10 Fairfax County-based companies in a broad range of industries hold spots on the Fortune 500 list of the largest publicly traded ...

LOWELL — The downtown high school project, at long last, has the funding. Now who will build it? That question was at the center of a packed and raucous City ...

A new carbon reduction goal from Dominion Energy shows that the utility is planning on slowing down its rate of decarbonization significantly between now and ...

Editor, Times-Dispatch: In regard to Marsha Mercer's “Mend, if not end, Electoral College” Op-Ed column, liberals and Democrats have to accept and come to ...

The Public Buildings Renewal Act would authorize $5 billion in private activity bonds for the construction or rehabilitation government-owned buildings.

Duke Energy is arguing that its monopoly utility in Florida should only have to buy electricity from renewable energy projects in two-year contracts, while its ...

Acme Equities, a mysterious hedge fund with no experience in the power sector, is vying to buy a distressed New Mexico coal plant slated for closure.

The T spent more on overtime last year than it did in 2015, when record-breaking snowfall drove up the agency's labor costs.

Those on the state payroll receive vacation and sick time pay to the tune of thousands of dollars. It is a perk reserved for those in the public sector and is unfair.

State officials said income tax estimated payments for the month possibly were lower because more people will make estimated tax payments in January.

With just a few weeks remaining as governor, Republican Scott Walker appointed his top aid Ellen Nowak to the Public *Service* Commission (PSC). Earlier this ...

Top members of the Seneca Anti-Wind Union are represented by a lawyer who is also fighting new wind and solar power projects on behalf of the coal industry.

The Trump Administration is in Poland for the COP24 climate talks and is set to hold a side-event to promote coal and other fossil fuels.

Boston's pension obligations have increased, and, as Wall Street suffered another rough day, fiscal watchdogs warn that a bear stock market could take a bite ...

Timing is everything in politics. And so it is that the last weeks leading up to Election Day tomorrow have featured big handouts to cities and towns. Gov. Charlie ...

Governor Chris Sununu's re-election campaign this week disclosed receiving new contributions totaling $8,700 last month from thirteen executives at ...

FirstEnergy has poured money, food, and beverages into Ohio's race for governor, as it lobbies for bailouts for its nuclear and coal power plants.

Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, the parent company of monopoly utility Arizona Public *Service*, spent another $8 million from October 1 through October 20 ...

Arizona Corporation Commissioner Andy Tobin exchanged frequent text messages with lobbyists for Arizona Public *Service*, at times about open rate cases.

Former governor John H. Sununu defended climate skeptic Bjorn Lomborg during the controversial Portsmouth Conference.

Rolling back the 2017 tax cuts and deregulations would threaten to return the nation — and the state — to the economic doldrums.

The cynical state of politics in 2018 is only worsened when those vying for powerful positions make grand promises which they can't possibly deliver.

Jay Gonzalez has built his campaign for governor on promises of an “aim high” agenda that includes single-payer health care, universal pre-K and a massive ...

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Roberta R. Schaefer remembers spending a chunk of her years at the Worcester Regional Research Bureau advocating for a policy change that would allow ...

Roberta R. Schaefer remembers spending a chunk of her years at the Worcester Regional Research Bureau advocating for a policy change that would allow ...

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's recent rebuke to supporters of a graduated income tax amendment showed how progressives failed to understand ...

A major conference that brought Mayor Martin J. Walsh national attention was funded by companies and groups that do business in Boston, and watchdogs are ...

Lawmakers are negotiating with business groups and liberal advocacy groups over several other ballot questions, including one that would lower the state sales ...

Mayor Martin J. Walsh defended his recommendation to increase his salary and city councilors' pay by more than 4 percent, saying his concern is about ...

Lowell resident, works for Local 509 of the *Service* Employees International Union, member of the MassDivest Coalition. Read full article. Jonathan ...

In this Research & Commentary, Matthew Glans examines a proposed bill in Missouri that would repeal the state's prevailing wage law. Once again, Missouri ...

Developers would have to pay prevailing wages and hire local workers for subsidized projects under a proposed compromise measure.

Manufacturers from around the state are pitching legislators this week on a bill to lighten their tax burden.

Universities and professors, funded by fossil fuel and utility special interests, are increasingly producing academic reports, supporting advocacy efforts, and ...

Dale Craymer is right. In his Feb. 5 column “Bad Math: Replacing property taxes with higher sales taxes doesn't add up for Texans,” he argues that raising the ...

Rhode Island has taken several important steps in recent years to walk itself back from the precipice of economic disaster.It reformed state public pensions ...

With scare studies, policy drafts and political donations, industry groups turned Ohio lawmakers against policies they once overwhelmingly supported.

A new report from Americans for Prosperity Foundation-NH calls for scrapping the state's renewable portfolio standards, or expanding them to include nuclear ...

Corporations often expect generous tax breaks from state and local governments as the price of setting up shop. Massachusetts need not break the bank to lure ...

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam released an ad calling on viewers to go online to compare his plan for economic growth, including ...

Senate supporters say additional taxes on home heating bills, electricity, and even cellphone *service* will help close a budget gap created when Gov.

BOSTON (CBS) – As the state readies to open more pot shops, one Boston woman looking to open a medical marijuana dispensary has critics calling ...

Cities' leaders have concerned themselves with limiting or banning seemingly innocuous goods and services. Do these measures really benefit local residents?

In his dutiful and forceful concession remarks in November 2014, John Miller, the Republican candidate for Massachusetts Attorney General, gave fair warning.

MARGARET MCKENNA IS the fifth president Suffolk University has had since 2010; now, seven months into her first term, the chairman of Suffolk's board of ...

STATE HOUSE — Several experts pegged the likely growth of tax revenues in fiscal 2017 at less than 4 percent, citing drags on the economy from an aging ...

Suffolk University next year will end what has become an awkward partnership with the Beacon Hill Institute, one of the city's few conservative research centers, ...

The Beacon Hill Institute, a conservative think tank affiliated with Suffolk University, will stop operating as part of the university by the end of 2016, the group's ...

Despite being similar in many important ways, Utah and Arizona have their own strengths and weaknesses relative to economic prosperity. Recognizing these ...

With the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set to finalize the Clean Power Plan, dozens of fossil fuel-funded organizations are poised to revive their ...

A deceptive op-ed campaign to undermine action on climate change is underway in states across the country. Infamous corporate lobbyist Richard Berman is ...

PR maestro Richard Berman serves the interests of the wealthy, but he's just one cog in a machine. The attack on Obama's power-plant rules illustrates how.

Suffolk University says Beacon Hill Institute had not followed rules and that research plans did not match university's mission.

The competition between the two states continues, with Minnesota Democrats dissing Wisconsin and the Walker administration firing back.

BOSTON (AP) -- Dozens of staffers for key legislative leaders have received pay raises of 10 percent or more at a time of tight budgets.