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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One of the things Gov. Charlie Baker wants to see as Massachusetts eventually emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic is a lot of shovels in the ground to build sorely needed new housing across the state, he said Wednesday during a trip to Quincy.
Today, Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito will join Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Mike Kennealy, Speaker of the House Ronald Mariano, Senator John Keenan, Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch and Father Bill s & MainSpring President & CEO John Yazwinski to make an announcement relative to funding for supportive housing for vulnerable populations. Housing is expensive in Massachusetts, Baker said. We all know that, but one of the reasons it s expensive is because we don t make enough of it, of any kind â senior housing, supportive housing, rental housing, workforce housing, affordable housing. The simple truth is, for the past 30 years or so we ve been building about half the housing supply we need to actually s
Twenty-one first-degree murderers set free under stateâs new compassionate release law
Critics want legislation to bar first-degree murderers from being released
By Shelley Murphy and Andrea Estes Globe Staff,Updated March 14, 2021, 5:49 p.m.
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Maureen Regan Moriarty held a photo of her father, John Regan, while sitting in her living room.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
John Stote was serving a mandatory life sentence for the 1995 murder of a Springfield restaurant owner when he was released in January on medical parole. At the time, the 61-year-old was hospitalized with COVID-19 and on a ventilator. The stateâs top correctional official determined it was unlikely he would survive.