Chris Van Buskirk
State House Reporter at Boston Herald
Covering Massachusetts state politics for @bostonherald | 🇦🇷🇺🇸 [email protected]. @ecjrn
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1 week ago |
bostonherald.com | Chris Van Buskirk
Senate President Karen Spilka compared sweeping arrests by federal immigration authorities since President Donald Trump took office in January to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Europe during the 1930s. More than 1,400 people were arrested here in May by federal agents as part of an operation targeting people who are allegedly in the United States illegally, and protests in California have exploded this month over actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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bostonherald.com | Chris Van Buskirk
Senate President Karen Spilka said she wants her chamber to approve a statewide ban on cellphones in public schools in the coming months in an attempt to put a proposal before Gov. Maura Healey before the start of the school year this fall. In an interview with the Herald, the Ashland Democrat argued cellphones are “causing severe hardship for our kids” because of the distraction the devices create and the ability for students to use them to cheat on schoolwork.
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2 weeks ago |
gazettextra.com | Chris Van Buskirk
BOSTON - Gov. Maura Healey's administration is preparing an executive order that targets modular housing, or homes that are designed and constructed in a factory to be quickly assembled at a desired location, according to an ethics disclosure filed by one of the authors of the order. The order, which was in draft form as of May 27, would create an "Interagency Modular Housing Task Force" comprised of state employees and an external advisory council.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonherald.com | Chris Van Buskirk
Gov. Maura Healey’s administration is preparing an executive order that targets modular housing, or homes that are designed and constructed in a factory to be quickly assembled at a desired location, according to an ethics disclosure filed by one of the authors of the order. The order, which was in draft form as of May 27, would create an “Interagency Modular Housing Task Force” comprised of state employees and an external advisory council.
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2 weeks ago |
arcamax.com | Chris Van Buskirk
BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey’s administration is preparing an executive order that targets modular housing, or homes that are designed and constructed in a factory to be quickly assembled at a desired location, according to an ethics disclosure filed by one of the authors of the order. The order, which was in draft form as of May 27, would create an “Interagency Modular Housing Task Force” comprised of state employees and an external advisory council.
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Auditor Diana DiZoglio wants to charge $2K to fulfill a public records request for documents that detail the behind-the-scenes work of an audit into the state-run shelter system, an inquiry her office’s top lawyer called a “fishing expedition.” #mapoli https://t.co/XYLqP4uFxo
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House lawmakers passed legislation Wednesday that overhauls oversight at the beleaguered Cannabis Control Commission, handing the governor of Massachusetts the power to appoint all commissioners while cutting down the number from five to three. #mapoli https://t.co/CiNERbO1PY