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The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority ( MWRA) is a public authority in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that provides wholesale drinking water and sewage services to 3.1 million people in sixty-one municipalities and more than 5,500 large industrial users in the eastern and central parts of the state, primarily in the Boston area.
The governor of Massachusetts is the chief executive of the commonwealth, and is supported by a number of subordinate officers. He, like most other state officers, senators, and representatives, was originally elected annually. In 1918 this was changed to a two-year term, and since 1966 the office of governor has carried a four-year term.
Massachusetts Public Records Law is a law in Massachusetts detailing what kinds of documents are actually public records. [1] It is a state law that is similar to the federal Freedom of Information Act, which was signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966. [2] According to the Boston Globe newspaper in 2016, "Massachusetts is currently the ...
Employers want courts to end that. Federal labor board has been much more pro-worker under Biden. Employers want courts to end that. Starbucks and the National Labor Relations Board, the federal ...
The state has an open-meeting law enforced by the attorney general, and a public-records law enforced by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. A 2008 report by the Better Government Association and National Freedom of Information Coalition ranked Massachusetts 43rd out of the 50 US states in government transparency.
QUINCY − Of the 50 highest paid city employees in 2023, 44 were police officers, including now-retired Police Chief Paul Keenan, who tops the list at $386,796.Overall, the city's payroll ...
Last August, Democratic Gov. Maura Healey declared a state of emergency and asked for federal assistance due to a rising number of migrant families coming to Massachusetts and requiring housing ...
The secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a constitutional officer in the executive branch of the U.S. state of Massachusetts.Originally appointed under authority of the English Crown pursuant to the Charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company, the office of secretary of the Commonwealth (equivalent to "secretaries of state" in other U.S. jurisdictions) became an elective one in 1780.