![BOSTON – House leaders are preparing a $1.1 billion spending bill to cover COVID-19 response costs while also walking back their earlier support for an increase in road and bridge maintenance funding amid stalled tax-raising talks and a budget crunch prompted by the pandemic. The House Ways and Means Committee on Monday began polling its […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/022620housear02-3.jpg?w=134 "BOSTON – House leaders are preparing a $1.1 billion spending bill to cover COVID-19 response costs while also walking back their earlier support for an increase in road and bridge maintenance funding amid stalled tax-raising talks and a budget crunch prompted by the pandemic. The House Ways and Means Committee on Monday began polling its […]")
State likely to allocate less money for road, bridge repairs
BOSTON – House leaders are preparing a $1.1 billion spending bill to cover COVID-19 response costs while also walking back their earlier support for an increase in road and bridge...
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![BOSTON – The previously postponed 2020 Boston Marathon has been canceled and will not be held on the Sept. 14 date officials originally targeted when they called off the traditional April running of the 26.2-mile road race due to the coronavirus, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced Thursday. Earlier this year, city leaders and the Boston […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/AP20149678164811-1.jpg?w=137 "BOSTON – The previously postponed 2020 Boston Marathon has been canceled and will not be held on the Sept. 14 date officials originally targeted when they called off the traditional April running of the 26.2-mile road race due to the coronavirus, Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced Thursday. Earlier this year, city leaders and the Boston […]")
Fall running of the Boston Marathon is canceled
BOSTON – The previously postponed 2020 Boston Marathon has been canceled and will not be held on the Sept. 14 date officials originally targeted when they called off the traditional...
![BOSTON – The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic shutdowns aimed at preventing its spread wiped out more than 20 million American jobs in April, a historic implosion felt in virtually every corner of the economy, federal officials said Friday. In the first full month of data reflecting the outbreak’s impact, the national unemployment rate jumped […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/low-l-nojobs-1.jpg?w=110 "BOSTON – The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic shutdowns aimed at preventing its spread wiped out more than 20 million American jobs in April, a historic implosion felt in virtually every corner of the economy, federal officials said Friday. In the first full month of data reflecting the outbreak’s impact, the national unemployment rate jumped […]")
U.S. jobless rates skyrockets to 14.7 percent
BOSTON – The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic shutdowns aimed at preventing its spread wiped out more than 20 million American jobs in April, a historic implosion felt in virtually...
Tickets for driving 100+ mph spiked in April
BOSTON – The rate of speeding tickets issued to drivers who allegedly traveled more than 100 miles per hour increased nearly sevenfold in April, even as total citations on Massachusetts...
![BOSTON – Ballot question campaigns will be able to collect the 13,000-plus signatures they need over the coming weeks electronically under a new court judgment agreed to by Secretary of State William Galvin. In a resolution partly mirroring relief already granted to legislative and Congressional candidates, the Supreme Judicial Court issued judgment late Wednesday allowing […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/110419galvinar03-1-1.jpg?w=131 "BOSTON – Ballot question campaigns will be able to collect the 13,000-plus signatures they need over the coming weeks electronically under a new court judgment agreed to by Secretary of State William Galvin. In a resolution partly mirroring relief already granted to legislative and Congressional candidates, the Supreme Judicial Court issued judgment late Wednesday allowing […]")
Accord clears way for e-sigs on ballot questions
BOSTON – Ballot question campaigns will be able to collect the 13,000-plus signatures they need over the coming weeks electronically under a new court judgment agreed to by Secretary of...
![BOSTON – Massachusetts school buildings will remain closed to students for the rest of this school year, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Tuesday, a dramatic step aimed at preventing a rebound in COVID-19 transmission once the state emerges from the worst of the outbreak. Baker also ordered non-emergency child care programs to remain closed until June […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Bakernc-14-2-1.jpg?w=132 "BOSTON – Massachusetts school buildings will remain closed to students for the rest of this school year, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Tuesday, a dramatic step aimed at preventing a rebound in COVID-19 transmission once the state emerges from the worst of the outbreak. Baker also ordered non-emergency child care programs to remain closed until June […]")
K-12 schools to remain closed through academic year
BOSTON – Massachusetts school buildings will remain closed to students for the rest of this school year, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Tuesday, a dramatic step aimed at preventing a rebound...
SHNS coronavirus tracker, Thursday update
BOSTON – Unemployment claims nationwide hit record levels, according to new data published Thursday, as the coronavirus pandemic shuttered wide swaths of public life and left millions out of work....
![BOSTON – Describing instances ranging from tasing to denial of attorney contact, advocates and lawmakers alleged Monday that correction officers at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley have abused inmates for weeks in response to an assault on three officers. Tensions have been high at the facility since inmates injured three correction officers in a […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Prison5-1-1.jpg?w=114 "BOSTON – Describing instances ranging from tasing to denial of attorney contact, advocates and lawmakers alleged Monday that correction officers at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley have abused inmates for weeks in response to an assault on three officers. Tensions have been high at the facility since inmates injured three correction officers in a […]")
Corrections officers targeting inmates at Shirley prison, allege advocates
BOSTON – Describing instances ranging from tasing to denial of attorney contact, advocates and lawmakers alleged Monday that correction officers at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley have abused inmates...
![BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate plans to roll out a “comprehensive climate change bill” on Thursday, officials announced Tuesday, and one senator told reporters he expects the bill to feature a net-zero emissions requirement by 2050. Senate President Karen Spilka and Sen. Mike Barrett, who co-chairs the Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee, announced in a 30-second […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/low-z-climate-1-1.jpg?w=130 "BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate plans to roll out a “comprehensive climate change bill” on Thursday, officials announced Tuesday, and one senator told reporters he expects the bill to feature a net-zero emissions requirement by 2050. Senate President Karen Spilka and Sen. Mike Barrett, who co-chairs the Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee, announced in a 30-second […]")
Senate plans climate bill roll-out Thursday
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate plans to roll out a “comprehensive climate change bill” on Thursday, officials announced Tuesday, and one senator told reporters he expects the bill to feature a...
![BOSTON — Massachusetts businesses would be banned from distributing disposable plastic straws unless a customer requests one, under a bill endorsed by Environment Committee on Monday and described as “ridiculous” by a leading small business advocate. The committee favorably recommended its own version of a ban (S 2450) that would prohibit restaurants, coffee shops and […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/plastic-straws-1.jpg?w=132 "BOSTON — Massachusetts businesses would be banned from distributing disposable plastic straws unless a customer requests one, under a bill endorsed by Environment Committee on Monday and described as “ridiculous” by a leading small business advocate. The committee favorably recommended its own version of a ban (S 2450) that would prohibit restaurants, coffee shops and […]")
Committee votes to make plastic straws by-request
BOSTON — Massachusetts businesses would be banned from distributing disposable plastic straws unless a customer requests one, under a bill endorsed by Environment Committee on Monday and described as “ridiculous”...