![BOSTON – With the threat of bacon and egg shortages looming, the House passed a bill Wednesday aimed at avoiding any disruption to food supplies next year by updating the 2016 ballot law that set standards for how hens, pigs and veal calves could be raised. The ballot law was intended to improve the living […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/low-l-tiktok-3.jpg?w=66 "BOSTON – With the threat of bacon and egg shortages looming, the House passed a bill Wednesday aimed at avoiding any disruption to food supplies next year by updating the 2016 ballot law that set standards for how hens, pigs and veal calves could be raised. The ballot law was intended to improve the living […]")
House’s hen welfare bill aims to ensure egg supply
BOSTON – With the threat of bacon and egg shortages looming, the House passed a bill Wednesday aimed at avoiding any disruption to food supplies next year by updating the...
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![BOSTON – With the Senate on the verge of voting to make balloting by mail permanent and same-day registration a part of the electoral process in Massachusetts, advocates and some lawmakers are fighting to make sure the expansion of access clearly extends to eligible voters behind bars. Those serving sentences for felony convictions in Massachusetts […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Robinhood-Massachusetts_Complaint_88889.jpg?w=133 "BOSTON – With the Senate on the verge of voting to make balloting by mail permanent and same-day registration a part of the electoral process in Massachusetts, advocates and some lawmakers are fighting to make sure the expansion of access clearly extends to eligible voters behind bars. Those serving sentences for felony convictions in Massachusetts […]")
State Senate mulls instructions for sheriffs on jail-based voting
BOSTON – With the Senate on the verge of voting to make balloting by mail permanent and same-day registration a part of the electoral process in Massachusetts, advocates and some...
![BOSTON – A Superior Court judge on Thursday denied the request of the union representing 1,800 members of the State Police to block the implementation of Gov. Charlie Baker’s vaccine mandate until the details can be collectively bargained. The decision leaves unvaccinated troopers with just days to get their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/statienl05.jpg?w=127 "BOSTON – A Superior Court judge on Thursday denied the request of the union representing 1,800 members of the State Police to block the implementation of Gov. Charlie Baker’s vaccine mandate until the details can be collectively bargained. The decision leaves unvaccinated troopers with just days to get their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine […]")
Judge denies State Police bid for injunction on vax mandate
BOSTON – A Superior Court judge on Thursday denied the request of the union representing 1,800 members of the State Police to block the implementation of Gov. Charlie Baker’s vaccine...
![BOSTON – From food insecurity and staffing shortages to an unequal and “broken” local public health system, advocates and lawmakers on Tuesday said the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in the state’s ability to meet the health needs of residents that should be filled with funding from the American Rescue Plan Act. Gov. Charlie Baker has […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Friedman-1.jpg?w=86 "BOSTON – From food insecurity and staffing shortages to an unequal and “broken” local public health system, advocates and lawmakers on Tuesday said the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in the state’s ability to meet the health needs of residents that should be filled with funding from the American Rescue Plan Act. Gov. Charlie Baker has […]")
ARPA revenue eyed to fill widening gaps in health care
BOSTON – From food insecurity and staffing shortages to an unequal and “broken” local public health system, advocates and lawmakers on Tuesday said the COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in the...
![BOSTON – Home prices in the red-hot housing market exceeded $500,000 for the fifth straight month in August, but buyers aren’t scooping up the properties as fast as they did during the previous two years as single-family home sales declined for the second straight month, The Warren Group reported on Tuesday. Homebuyers purchased 6,318 single-family […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/low-l-realestate.jpg?w=117 "BOSTON – Home prices in the red-hot housing market exceeded $500,000 for the fifth straight month in August, but buyers aren’t scooping up the properties as fast as they did during the previous two years as single-family home sales declined for the second straight month, The Warren Group reported on Tuesday. Homebuyers purchased 6,318 single-family […]")
Mass. home sales down for second straight month
BOSTON – Home prices in the red-hot housing market exceeded $500,000 for the fifth straight month in August, but buyers aren’t scooping up the properties as fast as they did...
![GLOUCESTER – Melrose said this week, barely into the new school year, that it had quarantined at least two classrooms for a COVID-19 outbreak, but Gov. Charlie Baker said Wednesday a return to remote learning as an option for school districts is not under consideration. “Schools have a certain number of days baked into their […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/low-z-1103girlsinc2.jpg?w=75 "GLOUCESTER – Melrose said this week, barely into the new school year, that it had quarantined at least two classrooms for a COVID-19 outbreak, but Gov. Charlie Baker said Wednesday a return to remote learning as an option for school districts is not under consideration. “Schools have a certain number of days baked into their […]")
Gov. Charlie Baker not considering remote option amid school outbreak
GLOUCESTER – Melrose said this week, barely into the new school year, that it had quarantined at least two classrooms for a COVID-19 outbreak, but Gov. Charlie Baker said Wednesday...
![BOSTON – Teachers, staff and many students at day care centers and after-school programs will be required to wear masks indoors after Labor Day, but Education Secretary Jim Peyser on Tuesday told the board that licenses early education providers that a vaccine mandate may be out of their control. The Board of Early Education and […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/bakerpool03-1.jpg?w=126 "BOSTON – Teachers, staff and many students at day care centers and after-school programs will be required to wear masks indoors after Labor Day, but Education Secretary Jim Peyser on Tuesday told the board that licenses early education providers that a vaccine mandate may be out of their control. The Board of Early Education and […]")
State board agrees to early education mask policy
BOSTON – Teachers, staff and many students at day care centers and after-school programs will be required to wear masks indoors after Labor Day, but Education Secretary Jim Peyser on...
![BOSTON – Consistent with the new mask-wearing rules in public schools, the Baker administration on Tuesday will seek permission to impose a mask mandate for all staff and children age 5 and older enrolled in state-licensed pre-kindergarten, after-school and other early education programs. The policy would look similar to what Education Commissioner Jeff Riley rolled […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/bakerpool03-1-2.jpg?w=126 "BOSTON – Consistent with the new mask-wearing rules in public schools, the Baker administration on Tuesday will seek permission to impose a mask mandate for all staff and children age 5 and older enrolled in state-licensed pre-kindergarten, after-school and other early education programs. The policy would look similar to what Education Commissioner Jeff Riley rolled […]")
State mask mandate reaching into early education
BOSTON – Consistent with the new mask-wearing rules in public schools, the Baker administration on Tuesday will seek permission to impose a mask mandate for all staff and children age...
![BOSTON – With his administration pursuing mask and vaccine mandates on two fronts, Gov. Charlie Baker has found himself in recent days a target of both conservative Republicans and progressive Democrats who see the incumbent as guilty of either government overreach or being too passive in the face of a COVID-19 resurgence. Baker last week […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/19diazNL006.jpg?w=133 "BOSTON – With his administration pursuing mask and vaccine mandates on two fronts, Gov. Charlie Baker has found himself in recent days a target of both conservative Republicans and progressive Democrats who see the incumbent as guilty of either government overreach or being too passive in the face of a COVID-19 resurgence. Baker last week […]")
Gubernatorial candidates knock Gov. Charlie Baker’s pandemic management
BOSTON – With his administration pursuing mask and vaccine mandates on two fronts, Gov. Charlie Baker has found himself in recent days a target of both conservative Republicans and progressive...
![ACTON – As the Delta variant spreads and schools and college campuses reopen to students and faculty, Rep. Tami Gouveia sent a letter last week to Gov. Charlie Baker urging him to use federal and state funding to make rapid antigen testing for COVID-19 free and accessible to residents. Gouveia, an Acton Democrat who is […]](https://www.nashobavalleyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/LOW-L-tamiGouveia24-cropped.jpg?w=133 "ACTON – As the Delta variant spreads and schools and college campuses reopen to students and faculty, Rep. Tami Gouveia sent a letter last week to Gov. Charlie Baker urging him to use federal and state funding to make rapid antigen testing for COVID-19 free and accessible to residents. Gouveia, an Acton Democrat who is […]")
Local state representative calls for free rapid COVID-19 tests
ACTON – As the Delta variant spreads and schools and college campuses reopen to students and faculty, Rep. Tami Gouveia sent a letter last week to Gov. Charlie Baker urging...