By State House News Service
Last month, Senate President Karen Spilka pitched what she described as a moonshot a long-term effort to reimagine care systems in the state to better to support the people, particularly women, caring for loved ones of all ages and help them stay in the workforce.
That process will take a step forward on Wednesday, when a Senate committee holds a hearing focused on intergenerational care.
Spilka said the hearing will help senators get a sense of short- and long-term needs around child and elder care, suggestions for how to address them, and what roles different sectors like caregivers and the business community can play.
Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka seeks input on intergenerational care
Updated May 04, 2021;
Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka is pushing for intergenerational care centers to bring resources to parents juggling their jobs and their children, older residents experiencing isolation and other challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The idea, she said, is in its “infancy.” There’s no plan for what exactly the centers would offer, where they would launch or how much they would cost. In other words, the canvas is mostly blank and the Senate president looking for help from Massachusetts families to fill in the blanks on how to best respond to their needs.
PITTSFIELD â Running for the Massachusetts Senate seat Adam Hinds has held since 2017, a Pittsfield man says he is elevating a platform that is âpro-life, pro-Second Amendment, pro-energy and pro-business.â
Brendan M. Phair, 50, told The Eagle this week that he is running to represent the Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden district. Phair, who does not have a party affiliation, has not held office previously and said he will campaign while remaining employed as a special education paraprofessional at Taconic High School.
Berkshire County votes consistently Democratic, and voters have elected a Democrat to the state Senate for each two-year term since 1997.
As Beacon Hill begins budget debate, tax breaks come under scrutiny
By Emma Platoff and Matt Stout Globe Staff,Updated April 12, 2021, 7:27 p.m.
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A crew prepared to film a scene of The Tender Bar last month in Boston s South End.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
As an uncertain budget process kicks off on Beacon Hill this week, the stage is set for a debate over how Massachusetts hands out $17.8 billion a year in tax breaks, heralding the possibility of major changes to state tax law even as lawmakers have largely
taken broad-based tax hikes off the table.
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