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Beacon Hill In 5 is a weekly check-in at the Statehouse from New England Public Radio. Get a quick look at the week ahead in politics and government in Massachusetts with Carrie Healy, NEPR’...

It'll be May at the end of the week. Massachusetts lawmakers are aiming to have a balanced budget process complete and signed by the Governo...

A look at how lawmakers frame their funding, as Mass. plans for a $3-billion higher education infrastructure upgrade. At the same time towns...

House Speaker Ron Mariano, traditionally a fierce critic of the ballot initiative process, signaled a major shift last week by expressing a...

Mass. Senate advances a $1.8B supplemental budget splitting surtax funds differently than the House, with less for the MBTA and more for reg...

House Speaker Ron Mariano expects voters to pass an income tax cut this year. He warns that if it passes, the state may have to hike other t...

Population growth is important for a thriving community. A recent UMass Donahue Wayfinders report projected population declines in all four...

A Legislative budget hearing focused on the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Executive Office of Transpor...

Mass. lawmakers this week take up immigration enforcement. This comes as the Feds continue to sharply restrict legal immigration, and deport...

The so-called Bright Act, is a $3 billion bond bill aiming to put at least $2.5 billion of that back into campuses across Massachusetts.

Massachusetts lawmakers propose to move an energy measure forward amid high bills, winter chill and a looming budget.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s budget boosts spending 3.8% over last year, even as tax revenue growth slows to 2.9%, federal aid is u...

In her proposed budget released last week, the Mass. governor included a multi million-dollar "down payment" that will staff up and investin...

A proposal to tax recreation in the Franklin County town of Charlemont will be heard this week on Beacon Hill.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey will deliver the annual State of the Commonwealth address on Thursday evening.

This week Massachusetts state executive and Legislative budget officials are expected to release the consensus tax revenue estimate, a figur...

The Mass. Legislature begins the second year of its two-year session after ringing in the New Year.

A plot line that was developing a year ago, overshadowed 2025 by a long shot: President Donald Trump's arrival and its impact on Beacon Hill...

The number crunchers on Beacon Hill began the state budgeting process. The consensus revenue hearing determined cautious growth is ahead in...

Lawmakers will peer into the future and guess how much tax revenue Massachusetts can reliably count on to support state spending beginning s...

Last week Mass. Gov. Maura Healey signed the 104-page $2.3 billion supplemental budget. Her requested FIFA World Cup tournament funding for...