We’ve put today’s busy schedule of legislative hearings at the State House in this one post for easier reading and reference. Here goes:
-- The Education Committee will hear a number of bills concerning health, including Sen. Cynthia Creem’s proposal requiring school districts to implement an allergy management and prevention plan, 10 a.m., Room 428.
-- The Financial Services Committee will hear several bills on health insurance mandates, 10:30 a.m., Room A-1.
-- Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies holds a hearing on bills dealing with innovation, tourism and other key sectors, 10:30 a.m., Room A-2.
-- Joint Committee on Revenue reviews about three dozen bills largely concerning sales and excise taxes, 11 a.m., Hearing Room B-2.
-- Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery holds a hearing on eight bills, including a bill that deals with the classification of ‘the street drug known as Molly,’ 11 a.m., Room B-1.
-- The Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery holds a public hearing on public safety, 11 a.m., Room B-1.
-- The Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight will solicit testimony on legislation aimed at prohibiting discrimination in state contracts, 11 a.m., Gardner Auditorium.
-- Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development hears testimony on 15 unemployment insurance bills, including Gov. Baker’s bill to modernize the state's administration of unemployment insurance, 1 p.m., Room B-2.
-- Joint Committee on the Judiciary hears testimony on dozens of bills under the broad category of ‘crimes legislation,’ including bills to allow Massachusetts consumers to purchase and use gun suppressors under certain circumstances, 1 p.m., Hearing Room A-1.
-- The Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee revisits the issue of regulating the secondary metals trade, 1 p.m., Room B-1
Lawrence’s Lantigua: ‘The people got careless … I’m a person of the people’ |
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The Herald’s Jessica Heslam takes of a look at the James Michael Curley of Lawrence politics, Willie Lantigua, the former mayor who’s running to win back his old job that he says was lost four years ago because “people got careless and so thousands did not come out to vote.” He later pronounced: “I’m a person of the people.”
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Long-stalled Pike development back on track |
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From Adam Vaccaro and Tim Logan at the Globe: “The long-delayed Fenway Center development over the Massachusetts Turnpike is now closer than ever to launching construction, thanks to a plan to do the easy part first. The board of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation Monday voted to let developer John Rosenthal build two apartment buildings alongside the Turnpike near Fenway Park, before building a costly deck over the Pike itself for a 27-story tower.”
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Putting pressure on Mass. Dems to support single-payer health |
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BlueMassGroup has a post identifying six of the state’s nine U.S. House members who haven’t signed on as co-sponsors of a House bill calling for a single-payer health system – and it singles out Rep. Joseph Kennedy III for special constituent attention.
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UMass approves 3 percent tuition hike amid concerns it won’t be enough |
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As expected, the UMass Board of Trustees yesterday OK’d a 3 percent hike in tuition fees for next year, but some people are sounding the alarm that the increase isn’t nearly enough to cover mounting university expenses, including growing debt-servicing costs and building depreciation problems, reports Alban Murtishi at MassLive.
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Lowell developer pulls doomed dorm bid before vote |
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A plan to build a private dormitory to house nearly 500 students not far from the UMass Lowell campus was withdrawn by the developers before the city’s planning board could vote—and presumably vote against it, Aaron Curtis of the Lowell Sun reports.
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Boston to plaster anti-Islamophobia posters around the city |
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Borrowing the idea from San Francisco and Paris, the city of Boston plans to post 50 signs around the city to combat Islamophobia, according to reports at the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. The posters, titled "What to do if you are witnessing Islamophobic harassment," were designed by French artist Maeril.
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