State lawmakers on Friday approved an annual budget that imposes new fees on businesses to help pay the state?s ever-rising health care costs.
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Readjusting expectations for revenues downward by more than $700 million, House and Senate negotiators nonetheless agreed to ratchet up spending by 2.7 percent.
Partners merger with Mass. Eye and Ear to get close scrutiny The state Health Policy Commission is concerned that the merger will affect health care costs.
Trump reportedly presses Putin on election; Russia denies interfering President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed brokering ??commitments of noninterference?? in the US political system.
Body language experts see reserve, deference, power plays in Trump-Putin meeting President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia finally met in person Friday at the G-20 Summit. Body language experts got an eyeful.
Cabbie in airport crash facing charges State Police intend to fault a taxi driver for an incident that injured 10 other cabbies at Logan on Monday.
Shirley Leung
UMass Boston chancellor flubs first big move on fixing the budget Barry Mills made a cruel and unusual decision to shutter the university?s day-care center and preschool.
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UMass Boston exploring ways to save day-care center The reversal came one day after an announcement that the Early Learning Center would shut down.
NASA gives Pence a pass on touching the space equipment: ?We were going to clean it anyway? In a tweet, NASA came off remarkably relaxed about the whole thing.
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Adrian Walker
From a distance it looked like a simple fight, just a piece of street theater.
Teen allegedly pulled away from Boston slaying scene by his mother The boy allegedly climbed out of a rented car, approached an 18-year-old man, and plunged a knife into his chest.
Amid spike in violence, Walsh holds public safety summit Boston saw three homicides in less than 24 hours, bringing the city?s total to 23.
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Boston has tried everything to make City Hall Plaza more fun. So why not vast quantities of pizza? Boston has tried just about everything to improve City Hall Plaza, so how about a thorough slathering in cheese and sauce?
THOMAS FARRAGHER
This family learned a lot from sailing the Atlantic for almost a year It was a year of great discovery. But mostly it was a journey of a family living and working together.
38 years ago, there was an uproar about the House dress code, too Amid the buzz this week over accusations that House Speaker Paul Ryan was behind a ?new? dress code, the roots of the policy actually date to Tip O?Neill.
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RED SOX 8, RAYS 3
The Rays stranded 10 and hit into two double plays, and the Sox? offense provided three homers.
Gordon Hayward hits town for a new suit ? and a haircut On his busy first night as a Celtic in Boston, he also worked in dinner with coach Brad Stevens in the North End.
Two Massachusetts Kmart stores are among 43 Sears and Kmart stores that will be closed down by early October, Sears Holdings said Friday.
Renée Graham
White men have nothing to complain about Despite what a contributing columnist in this newspaper recently stated, white men do not need defending.
What happens when the happiest country on earth gets bumped to No. 2 The World Happiness Report polls 155 countries to determine happiness. Denmark has won the title every year ? except this one.
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Meehan intends to ?clean up? UMass Boston. Here?s a good place to start. UMass president Martin Meehan says he intends to clean up the Boston campus. Scrutinizing the payroll seems like a good place to start.
Fifty-nine years of stories from one address With an eye toward the future, the Boston Globe said goodbye to its longtime Dorchester home this week.
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This writing group gives Boston?s homeless an outlet for their pain At a health center for the homeless, the group gives patients a chance to tell their stories with dignity and humanity.
The Rays stranded 10 and hit into two double plays, and the Sox? offense provided three homers.
The shuttering is the first major budget cut by interim university chancellor Barry Mills.
Consider Bill Cross an expert on this town north of Boston. He?s spent 23 years with the Fire Department and has never thought about leaving town.
The Education Department is trying to ?dilute? the protections put in place by the Obama administration, the attorneys general said in the complaint.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the bamboo-munching newcomers would be ??special ambassadors?? for the two countries.
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