A recap and analysis of the week in state government.The first week of Beacon Hill's unofficial summer vacation rolled by with a handful of lawmakers kayaking down the Merrimack River, another launching a mayoral campaign, and Gov. Charlie Baker's administration finishing up some overdue homework.And OK, it was the governor who gave his own transportation department the assignment a year ago to study the state's unrelenting traffic, so it wasn't a hard-and-fast [...]
State House Roundup -- Summer (traffic) Jam
By Katie Lannan STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE, Winchester Star
Mon, 08/12/2019 - 6:50am
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