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How — and When — Will Massachusetts Spend Its $5.3B in COVID Relief Funds? Federal aid to four communities is tangled in a larger power struggle between Gov. Charlie Baker and the Legislature By Colin A. Young • Updated 2 hours ago Office of Governor Baker Democratic leaders in the Legislature doubled down Wednesday on their plan to stash $5.3 billion in federal aid into an account they could control over the next several years as they and Gov. Charlie Baker engaged in ...

Democratic leaders in the Legislature doubled down Wednesday on their plan to stash $5.3 billion in federal aid into an account they could control over the next...

Shaun Robinson Boston University Statehouse Program BOSTON — Massachusetts is set to receive about $8 billion from the American Rescue Plan, about $4.5 billion of which will go to the state and $3.4 billion of which will go to cities and towns, officials say. The state is in better financial health than was initially expected amid the economic challenges of the pandemic, having upgraded revenue projections several times for the 2021 fiscal year. How exactly the state will leverage the $8 bill...

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BOSTON — House lawmakers made clear to the Baker administration Thursday that they want more information about how the discretionary portion of $71 billion in one-time aid thats already come to Massachusetts has been spent and want to have greater say around how another $40 billion in federal stimulus money thats on the way will be spent. After ceding some of its power through the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic as the governor flexed his executive authority around public health, the...

Norfolk and Plymouth county leaders know they are in line for an estimated $238 million in funding from the $1.9 trillion federal stimulus package passed in March, but are still waiting from guidance from the U.S. Treasury Department on what they can do with the money.  Estimates from the National Association of Counties put Norfolk Countys slice of the $1.3 billion earmarked for counties in Massachusetts at $137 million, which needs to be spent by the end of 2024. Plymouth County is expecte...

By State House News Service A very divided U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday debated and passed a $1.9 trillion package that is expected to funnel billions of dollars to Massachusetts for state and local government aid, education and transportation funding, and direct payments to more than three million families. Passage of the American Rescue Act that will provide state governments with direct federal aid for the first time since the pandemic began happened on the one-ye...

There’s no shortage of questions about how the Baker administration has approached its effort to vaccinate more than 4 million people. Legislators have critiqued everything from the governor’s decision to allow healthy young people to get vaccinated...

Theres no shortage of questions about how the Baker administration has approached its effort to vaccinate more than 4 million people. Legislators have critiqued everything from the governors decision to

“What has caused such a turbulent vaccine rollout? The answer has been elusive, too elusive frankly."