by Marissa Iacoviello | Nov 23, 2020 | Council in the News, State House News Service
Testing Seen as Critical Bridge to Vaccine November 23, 2020State House News ServiceBy Colin Young Promising vaccine trial results have offered a glimmer of hope that the end of the COVID-19 pandemic could be approaching, but testing capacity is still “far...
by Marissa Iacoviello | Sep 16, 2020 | Council in the News, State House News Service
September 16, 2020State House News Service By Katie Lannan When staff from Wayfair talk to interns or other students interested in the company, they field “a lot of very direct questions about, what about Boston,” said KeyAnna Schmiedl, the global head for...
by Marissa Iacoviello | Sep 14, 2020 | Council in the News, State House News Service
September 14, 2020State House News ServiceBy Colin A. Young With crunch time for difficult and potentially painful budget decisions drawing nearer each day, advocates for greater state spending are touting survey results that they say show “overwhelming...
by Marissa Iacoviello | May 1, 2020 | Council in the News, State House News Service
May 1, 2020State House News ServiceBy Colin Young BOSTON, MAY 1, 2020…..Forced economic shutdowns and social distancing in Massachusetts have contained the coronavirus to the point where an infected person is now, on average, spreading the virus to less than one...
by Marissa Iacoviello | Mar 11, 2020 | Council in the News, State House News Service
March 10, 2020 By Matt Murphy and Colin A. Young STATE HOUSE, BOSTON…With the number of cases of coronavirus more than doubling from the day before, Gov. Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency Tuesday and imposed broad restrictions on travel for many state...
by Melissa Roy | Feb 26, 2020 | Council in the News, State House News Service
February 26, 2020By Matt Murphy and Chris Lisinski Almost a year in the making, expectations for the roughly $600 million tax bill rolled out Wednesday by House Speaker Robert DeLeo to pay for improvements in the state’s transportation system were high, and...