There was a flurry of activity on Beacon Hill in the closing days of the Massachusetts state legislative session, the last for two-term Republican Governor Charlie Baker. Baker signed a nearly $53 billion budget that includes spending increases, and lawmakers sent the governor a series of reforms to how the state oversees soldiers’ homes – following the devastating COVID outbreaks during the height of the pandemic. We break it down with Matt Murphy of Statehouse News Service.
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont delivered his State of the State address Wednesday to a joint session of the General Assembly as the new legislative...
We speak with ProPublica journalist Joaquin Sapien about his report on how New York state has approached the issue of COVID-19 in nursing homes.
Thanks to billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds, New York for the first time in recent years received more federal money than...