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An ambitious regional plan to slash vehicle emissions appears to be running out of gas as Connecticut became the 10th state back out of the controversial Transportation Climate Initiative.
BOSTON (AP) â Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing whether to take some of the voting changes adopted at the height of the pandemic â including the broad use of mail-in voting â and make them permanent. The state took that step and others â including expanding the use of early voting and ballot drop boxes â to help diminish the pandemic health risk of voters crowding polling locations. Many of those changes proved popular, leading to a push to write them into state law. âThe pandemic is coming to an end and we have to think about whether we want to make some of t...
Gov. Charlie Baker said his Aug. 1 target to allow Massachusetts business to fully reopen after more than a year of pandemic restrictions is an "outside date," giving hope to small businesses that rely on the busy summer season.
UpdatedTue, May 11, 2021 at 10:28 am ET Replies(24) Massachusetts eased some coronavirus restrictions Monday, but that isn't enough for business groups, who point out Massachusetts is lagging behind states where there are higher rates of COVID-19 transmission and lower rates of vaccination. (Dave Copeland/Patch) MASSACHUSETTS — As of Tuesday, 25 states have fully reopened and lifted all the coronavirus restrictions that had been placed on businesses. Five more, including Rhode Island, plan to do so by the end of this month. Other states are targeting being fully reopening in June or July...
Massachusetts outdoor mask mandate: Calls grow to relax mask order, but Charlie Baker not ready to commit Rick Sobey, Erin Tiernan © Provided by Boston Herald BOSTON, MA. APRIL 20, 2021: An individual wears a mask as another does not as they walk in the Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts. (Staff photo by Nicolaus Czarnecki/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald) The push is on to relax the outdoor mask mandate. But Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday wouldn’t commit to any time frame as more and more people get the coronavirus vaccine. When people are not crowded outside, there is ...