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Beacon Hill Roll Call: March 29 to April 2, 2021 Modified: 4/9/2021 2:39:57 PM There were no roll calls in the House and Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports on the number of times each representative sided with Gov. Charlie Baker on his 151 vetoes of items in the 2020 session. A two-thirds vote is required to override a gubernatorial veto. In a full 160-member House, the governor needed the support of 54 representatives to sustain a veto when all 160 representatives voted — and fewer votes when some members were absent, or a seat was vacant. Baker fell short of that ...

Beacon Hill Roll Call: March 29 to April 2, 2021 Published: 4/9/2021 2:39:53 PM There were no roll calls in the House and Senate last week. This week, Beacon Hill Roll Call reports on the number of times each representative sided with Gov. Charlie Baker on his 151 vetoes of items in the 2020 session. A two-thirds vote is required to override a gubernatorial veto. In a full 160-member House, the governor needed the support of 54 representatives to sustain a veto when all 160 representatives voted — and fewer votes when some members were absent, or a seat was vacant. Baker fell short of that...

Wicked Local WEYMOUTH- Town Solicitor Joseph Callanan said legal precedents don’t allow Town Council to file a legal brief with federal regulators about safety and health concerns posed by a natural gas compressor station in the Fore River Basin. "Collectively, the Town Council does not have the authority to sue," he said during a Council meeting, March 8.  “If you do it as individuals, I have no problem with that.” Councilor-at-large Rebecca Haugh said her colleagues could draft a letter that details their concerns about the compressor station and give it to residents or community gro...

5 takeaways from legislative hearings on the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home COVID outbreak: How much more do we know now? Updated Feb 28, 2021; Posted Feb 28, 2021 State Rep. Linda Dean Campbell chairs an October 2020 legislative hearing on the COVID-19 outbreak at the Soldiers' Home in Holyoke, held at Holyoke Community College. (Don Treeger / The Republican file) Facebook Share Nearly a year after the beginning of the deadly pandemic that has changed the face of life as we knew it, the state Legislature’s Special Oversight Committee has held six hearings since October to examine the outbreak ...

BOSTON (AP) — A legislative panel investigating a coronavirus outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers' Home that took the lives of nearly 80 veterans discussed at its sixth meeting Tuesday what...