30 July 2010, 7:06 pm
State legislators on Friday unveiled an economic-development bill that includes a sales tax holiday for Aug.... Read More »
30 July 2010, 3:02 pm
House and Senate negotiators moved Friday to resolve their dispute over expanded gambling in Massachusetts, sitting down to work out the details of a proposal calling for the addition of three casinos, plus two slot machine parlors bid upon by the state's four existing racetrack owners, three offici... Read More »
30 July 2010, 10:57 am
A new law is aimed at expanding organ and tissue donations in Massachusetts. It establishes a fund that will accept public and private gifts, grants and donations to support donor registration.... Read More »
30 July 2010, 6:53 am
We're happy Sen. John F. Kerry plans to pay Massachusetts nearly $500,000 in sales and excise taxes for the $7 million sloop Isabel that he bought in Rhode Island earlier this year.... Read More »
30 July 2010, 2:38 am
Massachusetts has some of the biggest name colleges and universities in the country but, except for Harvard, few of the biggies ended up on the Chronicle of Higher Education's recent Great Colleges to Work For list.... Read More »
29 July 2010, 10:28 pm
Boston Herald Chief Enterprise Reporter Wedge is the Herald's Chief Enterprise Reporter and writes Sunday's "Pols & Politics" column.... Read More »
29 July 2010, 6:19 pm
Cartoonists from around the world are submitting works on the themes of freedom and the late Massachusetts Sen.... Read More »
29 July 2010, 2:10 pm
The Massachusetts court system is considering ending its lease with the old Hampshire County Courthouse on Main Street in Northampton as a cost-saving measure.... Read More »
29 July 2010, 9:55 am
The State Retirement Board is weighing whether to appeal a court decision ordering it to resume pension payments to former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi.... Read More »
29 July 2010, 7:55 am
Deval Patrick called on them to approve a sales-tax holiday, Beacon Hill legislators seemed optimistic about the prospect of granting consumers and retailers the two-day August reprieve.... Read More »