Over the last decade, the biggest drain on Massachusetts municipal budgets has been employee health care premiums.
The Federal Aviation Administration bill was delayed 23 times, but the agency finally has a law giving it $63 billion and full operating authority for the next four years. For those of you counting, that’s only one year less than the five years it took Congress to enact the measure.
In the Massachusetts House of Representatives, members get to vote on bills when — and only when — the speaker gives his approval.
In the mid-1990s, there was a mini-wave of “granny dumping.” Elderly people, abandoned by families, showed up at hospitals and Salvation Army facilities, often with a note to the effect: “Please take care of her. We no longer can.”
It looks like U.S. troops will be leaving Afghanistan sooner rather than later. It can’t happen soon enough.
We’ve made it through the longest two weeks on the sports calendar, and it hasn’t been easy.
If there is such an animal as an economic report of unalloyed good news, the January unemployment report was as close as it gets, especially seen in the context of the recession and the tremendous hurdles in emerging from it.
Companies create jobs where they can find capable workers to fill them.
Voter fraud has become a hot topic in national politics, with Republicans, mostly, pushing new laws requiring photo IDs at the voting booth.
House and Senate members wasted what little time they scheduled for themselves to work in January on a political charade. It fooled no one in Washington but may dupe some voters this fall who had better things to do than follow congressional gamesmanship.
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