Beacon Hill (WMassP&I) Yesterday, the Massachusetts House of Representatives effectively voted to give cities and towns the unilateral right to set deductibles and co-pays for their employees health insurance. Additionally, communities would no longer required to seek public employee approval to transfer insurance to the
Mayor Domenic Sarno (WMassP&I) Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno held a somber press conference today announcing that he and his staff were close to recommending a balanced budget to the City Council save for one pesky $5.4 million gap. To plug it, the mayor is seeking
**UPDATE 4/15** The House of Representatives has passed Rep. Paul Ryan’s bill that would end Medicare as we know it. The vote was almost entirely on party lines. No Democrats voted for it and they were joined by four Republicans. The budget resolution is not
Speaker John Boehner R-OH (Wikipedia) So this is what it comes down to. Reports are swirling that the number agreed to by Democrats and Republicans is roughly $40 billion. While Speaker of the House John Boehner R-OH, insists that a number is not set, it
Monday was a night of stunning defeats and equally stunning chutzpah. A dozen or so cops filled the council chamber ostensibly as a show of solidarity ahead of the civilian review vote. Other measures up included the trash fee, a petition to extend council terms
Councilor Walsh (Facebook) Tonight’s City Council Meeting will feature a renewed effort by at-large Councilor Kateri Walsh and Ward 4 Councilor E. Henry Twiggs to extend the term of City Councilors to four years, coterminous with the mayor’s 4 year term. Walsh and Twiggs are
On March 5 1920, the New York Times reported that a tract of land in “Central Springfield, MA” had been purchased by the Diamond Match Company. Although that article claimed matches were not to be manufactured there, eventually they were. Until the 1980’s the company