GOVERNORS

Given the unique chance to reshape the Cannabis Control Commission, on Tuesday Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey tapped a former revenue commissioner who more recently has been steering the Executive Office of Health and Human Services to chair the new-look, downsized panel.The governor appointed Christopher Harding as chair of the new three-person CCC — and also picked as commissioners western Mass. economic development official Xiomara DeLobato and cannabis law advisor Anthony Wilson.

Lawmakers debate the "Mass Wins Act" containing tech and business investments, amid tight deadlines, assessing consequences of a decreased income tax and state budget talks.

House Speaker Ron Mariano, traditionally a fierce critic of the ballot initiative process, signaled a major shift last week by expressing a willingness to negotiate on one of the state’s most high-stakes and debated proposals.

Massachusetts lawmakers on Monday pressed state officials to confront longstanding concerns with the state's K-12 school funding formula, signaling growing momentum for a long-delayed review.

A group of rural educators and elected officials from around Massachusetts are sending a week-long SOS to Beacon Hill lawmakers, letting them know, not for the first time, the destructive consequences of underfunding the state's rural schools.

The so-called Bright Act, is a $3 billion bond bill aiming to put at least $2.5 billion of that back into campuses across Massachusetts.

Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll were in Holyoke and North Adams this week as they hit the campaign trail.

Massachusetts lawmakers propose to move an energy measure forward amid high bills, winter chill and a looming budget.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s budget boosts spending 3.8% over last year, even as tax revenue growth slows to 2.9%, federal aid is uncertain, and reserves have already been tapped.

In her proposed budget released last week, the Mass. governor included a multi million-dollar "down payment" that will staff up and investing in infrastructure that could be used to kick thousands of residents off Medicaid programs like MassHealth, next year.