BUDGETS

House Speaker Ron Mariano wants more answers before he moves forward with funding for expanded passenger rail service between Pittsfield and Boston, Massachusetts.

With less than three weeks before the new fiscal year begins, negotiators are continuing talks on a compromise budget using elements of the different spending plans passed by the state House and Senate.

Republican delegates on Saturday qualified both of their candidates for Massachusetts governor for the September primary ballot. Reporter Matt Murphy of the State House News Service discusses what's ahead this week at the Statehouse in Boston.

This week, the Massachusetts House kicks off deliberations Monday on its $49.6 billion spending plan for FY23. The Senate, which meets in formal session Thursday, could move towards a long-awaited vote on sports betting after a bill emerged Friday from the Ways and Means Committee. Matt Murphy of the State House News Service talks about the week ahead.

State House News Service reporter Matt Murphy discusses possible Massachusetts gubernatorial debates and a state Senate bill addressing equity in the cannabis industry.

State House News Service reporter Matt Murphy discusses possible Massachusetts gubernatorial debates and a state Senate bill addressing equity in the cannabis industry.

Gov. Ned Lamont proposed a new state budget Wednesday that shifts hundreds of millions of dollars in federal pandemic relief outside of normal appropriations, funds a middle-class property tax relief program and makes major new investments in social services, health care, education and economic development.

What is the state of the state? Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker will address that very question in his annual, and final, State of the Commonwealth on Tuesday evening.

Massachusetts lawmakers last week quietly passed a bill divvying up about $4 billion in federal COVID-19 relief money. It was months in the making.The…

Connecticut has $3.1 billion rainy day fund fueled by federal Covid-19 relief, surging stock market and aggressive savings program.