BOSTON – Recreational marijuana sales have soared in 2021 as Massachusetts emerges from the pandemic, however business complications in the industry have remained stagnant.Massachusetts legalized marijuana in 2016, becoming the seventh state to do so..
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Has hiring freeze thawed? Gov. Baker not saying
In July, as the Legislature was gearing up to steamroll Gov. Charlie Baker by restoring almost all of the $265 million in budget vetoes he handed down, the governor’s team announced a hiring freeze across the executive branch. The goal was to hit a $100 million “efficiency savings” target in a state budget Baker had just signed, but one that he warned was vulnerable to spending pressures due to underfunded accounts.
“We are implementing a hiring freeze for all Executive Branch agencies,” former chief human resources officer Paul Dietl wrote in a July 15 memo.