Beacon Hill In 5
Controlling Billions In Federal Aid Still Top-Of-Mind For Massachusetts Lawmakers, Governor
Massachusetts lawmakers are 10 days from needing a state budget for the new fiscal year, but the big fight now is about billions in federal aid and who controls it.
Regional News
Owners Of Iron Horse Venues Hit With Fines, Penalties Over Workers' Rights Violations
Updated 3:46 p.m. The owner of several entertainment venues in Northampton and Holyoke, Massachusetts, has been hit with $100,000 in fines and restitution after the Massachusetts Attorney General's office found the rights of about 30 workers were violated.
Supreme Court
The Supreme Court Sides With NCAA Athletes In A Narrow Ruling
Updated June 21, 2021 at 5:45 PM ET Faced with the prospect of reshaping college athletics, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a narrow but potentially transformative ruling Monday in a case that pitted college athletes against the National Collegiate Athletic Association. At issue in the case were NCAA rules that limit educational benefits for college players as part of their scholarships. The athletes maintained that the NCAA has, in effect, been operating a system that is a classic restraint of...
Connecting Point
Transportation
Boston To New York In Under 2 Hours? Lawmakers Lobby For Bullet Train In Infrastructure Deal
For years, Doug McGarrah has suffered from bullet train envy. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to travel to places like Spain or Japan, we all marvel at these wonderful ways of getting around on high-speed rail, said McGarrah, a partner at the law firm Foley Hoag in Boston. We come back to America, and we get on our systems that are — lets just say substandard. But with Congress debating a massive infrastructure bill, McGarrah and other proponents of high-speed railways hope to...
NATIONAL
The Record Temperatures Enveloping The West Are Not Your Average Heat Wave
It might be tempting to shrug at the scorching weather across large swaths of the West. This just in: It gets hot in the summer. But this record-setting heat wave's remarkable power, size and unusually early appearance is giving meteorologists and climate experts yet more cause for concern about the routinization of extreme weather in an era of climate change. These sprawling, persistent high-pressure zones popularly called "heat domes" are relatively common in later summer months. This...
Be the first to get NEPM’s new
t-shirt!
More News
A Lobster Diver In Cape Cod Says A Humpback Whale Scooped Him Up And Spat Him Out
A commercial lobster diver says he escaped relatively unscathed after nearly being swallowed by a humpback whale, in a biblical-sounding encounter that whale experts describe as rare but plausible. Michael Packard, 56, said in local interviews and on social media that he was diving off the coast of Provincetown, Mass., on Friday morning when the whale suddenly scooped him up. "I was in his closed mouth for about 30 to 40 seconds before he rose to the surface and spit me out," Packard later...
