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• Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (April 18-
• Beacon Hill negotiators say the have a deal on shelter funding
• least-affordable US cities to buy a home are all in California
• A top House Democrat wants to remove Trump's Secret Service protection if he's sent to prison
• After scandal, movie producer Randall Emmett is flying under the radar with a new name
• Teamsters union jump into rideshare drivers' rights fight
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As part of an effort to clamp shelter spending, negotiators opted for a new nine-month limit on how long families can stay in the emergency assistance program in the compromise... Later this week, Gov. Maura Healey will sign an executive order that will prohibit state agencies from buying single-use plastic bottles effective immediately, a step that she said Massachusetts will be the first state in the nation to take and one that the Legislature has repeatedly declined to take over the last decade. House Speaker Ron Mariano is "still searching for some answers" about the scope of the fast-changing emergency shelter crisis, while Gov. Maura Healey on Tuesday delivered another impassioned plea for federal aid that she acknowledged so far has not been forthcoming. Vulnerable workers, including immigrants who don't know their rights or are fearful of employer retaliation, could gain stronger protections against pervasive wage theft under legislation that is supported by the state's top prosecutor and Gov. Maura Healey but has failed to win over Democrats on Beacon Hill for years. Legislators representing marginalized communities and diverse medical leaders touted comprehensive health equity bills as a solution to overcoming long-standing racial disparities during a hearing Wednesday, though insurers warned the bill's passage could lead to higher costs for patients and employers. Business organizations that collectively represent more than 10,000 employers in Massachusetts and one million employees are echoing calls from top state officials for the federal government to take action and make more migrants eligible to work.

Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (April 18-

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She said her administration has been focused on getting work authorizations for these individuals, pointing to clinics the state and federal officials hosted a few weeks ago to help accelerate the process. Top Democrats expect to file a compromise Wednesday on a bill designed to continue funding the state's overrun emergency family shelter and implement reforms to cut costs by limiting how... The Healey administration's top health care official said the property and leasing of Steward Health Care hospitals is complicating efforts to find a buyer. The Senate met for four minutes Monday and sent the governor a local bill affecting the town treasurer's office in Monson (population 8,150). Senators also agreed to admit a new petition from Plymouth Rep. Mathew Muratore dealing with insurance coverage for prosthetics and orthotics. If you don't receive a story from us within one business day, or if you have any questions, please contact help-

Beacon Hill negotiators say the have a deal on shelter funding

"And whatever else comes up along the way, but those are a couple of the things that I know are gonna take my time next week," Mariano said. After Friday's vote, Mariano mentioned efforts by top House Democrats to hold new spending down next fiscal year. The Department of Revenue this week is scheduled to release tax collection data for April, a critical month for receipts, and Michlewitz said those numbers will be a "big determining factor in how we handle the remainder of the fiscal year." "We want to be cautious, but also want to be able to do the local investments as well that we have done in the past as much as we possibly could," Michlewitz told reporters after the vote. Representatives tacked on less spending via amendments than they did to last year's budget, and a shade less than the $108.5 million average between fiscal years 2022 and 2024 as calculated by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. After session, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Aaron Michlewitz defended the mostly behind-closed-doors approach, saying there are "many different processes," including one-on-one meetings and off-floor discussions, that representatives go through to advocate for their priorities during the budget's development.

least-affordable US cities to buy a home are all in California

The bill also sets a foundation of up to $175 million in state savings that can be redirected toward shelters in fiscal 2025. Both the House and Healey want to provide another $325 million through the annual state budget. If Healey approves the latest injection of funding, it would push the total amount Beacon Hill has appropriated to the emergency assistance shelter system over the course of fiscal 2024 to about $826 million — more than four and a half times as much as the state spent on the program in fiscal 2021. "As we all know, the projected cost of the state's emergency shelter program is on an unsustainable trajectory, and there is no federal assistance in sight," Rodrigues said on the Senate floor. "Without action, it will continue to undercut the collective work we all have engaged in over these last few years to support our state's fiscal year." Senate Ways and Means Committee Chair Michael Rodrigues, the lead negotiator from his chamber, called the final compromise "a fiscally responsible, humane and sustainable response to the ongoing emergency assistance shelter crisis."

A top House Democrat wants to remove Trump's Secret Service protection if he's sent to prison

The California Attorney General announced Sunday his office will investigate the fatal shooting of an allegedly armed man who police said broke into a Long Beach home. Five people were killed in a crash in Littlerock Sunday, the California Highway Patrol said. The Democrat-only passage of the shelter funding deal drew quick rebukes from conservatives at the Mass. A man was found dead in a South Los Angeles home on Sunday after firefighters extinguished a blaze on the property. State Auditor Diana DiZoglio said she was in her office counting previous audits of the Legislature with her team when they heard the fire alarm go off on Tuesday afternoon, following the other fire alarm activation earlier in the day. State House News Service reporter Alison Kuznitz said on Twitter that it was the second fire alarm activation of the day in the building.

MBTA officials added another pair of partial Red Line weekend closures to a long list of maintenance-fueled disruptions planned in October. Students are still performing well below pre-pandemic levels on the latest batch of statewide standardized test results, though education department officials say the scores show that the "achievement slide" from COVID-19 "has halted and recovery is underway." [Coverage Developing] Lawmakers representing marginalized communities and diverse medical leaders touted comprehensive health equity bills as a crucial solution to overcoming long-standing racial disparities during a hearing Wednesday, though insurers warned they could raise costs for patients and employers. The Governor's Council on Wednesday unanimously approved Sarah Beth Coughlin, a licensed clinical social worker, as the newest member of the state Parole Board. The Department of Transportation is on the verge of launching a new office focused on decarbonizing the transportation sector and making infrastructure more resilient in the face of climate change, its top leader said Wednesday.

After scandal, movie producer Randall Emmett is flying under the radar with a new name

Massachusetts students will receive sex and health education that is intended to be more inclusive of the LGBTQ+ community and teach about bodily autonomy, mental and emotional health, dating safety, nutrition, sexually transmitted infections and consent, after a board of education vote on Tuesday. "It's also the case that we are fiscally very strong here in Massachusetts," the governor continued. "We have a terrific bond rating. We have a record amount in the stabilization fund. And we're going to just have to plan and evaluate as we prepare our next budget. That's what we're going to do, we're going to manage the situation." We offer unique, ongoing coverage of news from the panel that interviews and approves judicial nominees. The News Service started just before the turn of the century when one member of the press corps began copying every session of the House and Senate (in pencil) and selling the copies to other reporters, so they wouldn't have to attend every moment. From that start the service, under several names, has added full wire-service coverage at a good price to news organizations and other clients.

So – but beyond that, we are aware of these reports, and we are continuing to engage and provide all appropriate consular assistance. Now, state law requires them on community and state college campuses and they're popping up everywhere from vending machines to bars.They're intended to help young people avoid fentanyl-laced counterfeit prescription pills and tainted recreational drugs. But as fentanyl test strips are normalized – from high school to college to bachelor parties – experts warn test strips alone can provide a false sense of security, and in some cases do more harm than good.

In light of that, we’ve also continued to see some steps in the right direction when it comes to humanitarian assistance, but we also continue to stress the importance and we need to see additional steps being taken when it comes to deconfliction mechanisms and steps that they can take to protect humanitarian workers. Ambassador Satterfield spoke a great deal about that yesterday, about things like comms equipment and other ways in which steps can be taken to ensure that humanitarian workers are kept safe, and we’re going to continue to press our partners in Israel for those kinds of things. But these are deliberative processes that are rigorous, that are detail-oriented, that are rooted in the law and rooted in facts, and they take time.

By the mid-2000s, the new digital paywall model for the News Service had been validated, and Sandler began visiting other state capitols to see if the model could be replicated. Florida had the lucrative market, thriving government-affairs sector and complicated politics that would support a large enough staff and infrastructure to run a full-fledged capitol bureau, so Sandler selected Tallahassee. The business model, operating structure, product offering and customer base are very similar to those of the State House News Service. A complete rundown of the day's events is only a click away - the News Service offers not only a comprehensive events listing, but supplemental advisories on what's making news. We issue timely, accurate stories about virtually every important daily development in state government.

Social pressures to be productive – not to mention a culture that prizes multi-tasking – make doing nothing hard to do, for fear of being accused of the dreaded sin of laziness. However, experts say there are rewards for not pushing yourself to the edge all the time. The Ontario Police Department stopped an apparent follow home robbery after the would-be victims spotted the handful of suspects eying them at a local bank last Thursday. One person died in a house fire in Florence, the Los Angeles Fire Department reported. Drug Enforcement Administration, in partnership with local law enforcement agencies, is intended to remove commonly abused drugs, that sit in medicine cabinets, out of circulation. Campus protests over the war in Gaza are intensifying at the University of Southern California and the LAPD Saturday remained on alert.

Healey's team could downgrade the consensus revenue forecast for FY24 to reflect the sluggish performance so far, and the governor suggested Wednesday that call will be up to her budget chief, Administration and Finance Secretary Matthew Gorzkowicz. While spending trends are not clear nearly midway through the budget year, tax collections have fallen short of projections five months in a row. Through the first five months of fiscal year 2024, state tax collectors have hauled in about $146 million or 1 percent more than they did during the same span last year, but $627 million or 4.3 percent less than the estimates used to craft the record $56 billion annual budget. Beyond the journalism community, the News Service serves as a de facto news source of record for the wider state-government community - the legislators, legislative staffers, agency employees, political organizations and industry groups, and the like.

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration, through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a Final Rule, entitled HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy. The Final Rule strengthens the Health Insurance Portability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule by prohibiting the disclosure of protected health information (PHI) related to lawful reproductive health care in certain circumstances. HHS is issuing this Final Rule after hearing from communities that changes were needed to better protect patient confidentiality and prevent medical records from being used against people for providing or obtaining lawful reproductive health care. This Final Rule will bolster patient-provider confidentiality and help promote trust and open communication between individuals and their health care providers or health plans, which is essential for high-quality health care. Denuded of government reporters, the news outlets increasingly relied on News Service copy for State House coverage that once had been provided by staff members.

Overly optimistic revenue estimates are partly to blame for uprooting the budget that House and Senate Democrats drew up for fiscal 2024, causing Healey in January to reach for spending cuts and new revenues as part of a major midyear budget-balancing act. Since then, the governor has imposed hiring controls as an added effort to control spending. House Democrats were united in their support of the bill while there were divisions within the 25-member House Republican caucus, where four members voted against the budget. The budget does not call for tax increases, seeks to push overall state spending up by about 3.3%, or $2 billion, and aims to drive up the state rainy day fund balance to nearly $9 billion.

"This is a DANGEROUS SYSTEM with major risks to life and property," the NWS' Los Angeles office said early Sunday afternoon. "Substantial flooding. Residents should heed any evacuation orders. Stay off the roads, especially the freeways, this afternoon through at least Monday morning." The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed early Tuesday, March 26 after a column was struck by a container ship that reportedly lost power, sending vehicles and people into the Patapsco River. Disney is seeking approval from local officials to expand its California theme park offerings over the next four decades.

But they also delivered Healey the second-latest annual budget since fiscal 2002 and the second-latest closeout budget since the turn of the millennium. Legislative leaders spent long stretches of the year publicly sparring over how to advance gun-related legislation — not so much the substance of the actual reforms — and the joint committee process. Healey spoke generally about her desire for action to make child care less expensive, calling it an "economic imperative" in the business community, but on Wednesday she did not repeat her inaugural endorsement of the Common Start proposal itself. Healey pointed out that "we do have new revenue" coming in from the voter-approved surtax on high earners, which is designed to be earmarked just for education and transportation uses. The Department of Revenue estimated last week that the surtax will generate between $1.58 billion and $2.06 billion in revenue this fiscal year, significantly more than the $1 billion allocated in the state budget.