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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 County's 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 expected to receive $101 million. Norfolk County Commissioner Joe Shea of Quincy said everyone is waiting...

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-year anniversary of Gov. Charlie Baker declaring a state of emergency around the coronavirus that has ...

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...

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

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