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In between last Friday’s downpours, Matt Patton stepped inside Ideal Sub Shop, a cash-only place on Dudley Street known for its steak and cheese – and lines out the door. It was standing room only that afternoon, and people darted in and out with their orders, one of them a young woman carrying out a breadbasket. Patton flagged down one of the harried employees who had been
THE HOUSE AND SENATE: This week’s report is on the latest fundraising and expenditure numbers for the state’s 40 senators’ campaign committees from the latest filing period of April 1-30, 2023. It also includes how much money each senator has on...
A Suffolk Superior Court judge has given final approval to a $40 million fund to compensate hundreds of Black and Hispanic police officers in Massachusetts who were discriminated against by the state agency conducting promotional exams for sergeant as long ago as 2005.
A long-running class-action discrimination lawsuit initiated by a Worcester police officer who was habitually passed over for promotion decades ago is expected to settle for $40 million.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts state attorney general has reached a $40 million settlement with the hundreds of minority police officers the state has ruled the civil-service promotional exam discriminated against,