Economy

Chris Van Buskirk State House News Service Looking to grab a drink at your favorite watering hole? Unless it provides seated food service, you’ll have to wait until Phase 4 after administration officials delayed the reopening timeline for bars. Bars were originally slated to open in Phase 3 of Gov. …

Today, Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito joined New Balance chairman Jim Davis for a tour of New Balance’s Lawrence factory, a facility that has helped the company produce more than 1 million masks in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. The tour highlighted the company’s face …

Colin A. Young State House News Service A federal judge ruled late Friday in favor of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe in its circuitous quest to maintain control of 321 acres of reservation land in Mashpee and Taunton, saying the Trump administration’s 2018 declaration that the tribe does not qualify as …

In an announcement cheered by the fishing industry and described as an “attack on our ocean” by opponents, President Donald Trump on Friday reversed a four-year-old decision by President Barack Obama that had abruptly ended commercial fishing within a 5,000-square mile area of the Atlantic Ocean deemed a national marine …

The Baker-Polito Administration today announced that Phase II of the Commonwealth’s reopening plan will begin on June 8th. Businesses and sectors set to begin opening in Phase II are subject to compliance with all mandatory safety standards. On May 18, the Administration released a four-phased plan to reopen the economy …

Michael P. Norton State House News Service As Gov. Baker mulls ways to safely reopen businesses and on the heels of a jobs report showing the national jobless rate falling to 13.3 percent, President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Maine on Friday. On Friday afternoon, Trump plans to participate …

Matt Murphy State House News Service Thousands of people congregating night after night to protest police brutality and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis poses a risk for the spread of COVID-19, Gov. Charlie Baker acknowledged on Wednesday, but the governor said the state has no intention of trying …

In February we announced that Shrewsbury commercial real estate developer Donat Aubuchon had purchased Dartmouth’s “Big Value Outlet Plaza” from Dartmouth Select Board member David Tatelbaum for $7.5 million and that he proposed erecting of a free-standing retail building in the parking lot. Now that plan is coming to fruition …

Mayor Jon Mitchell announced that the City of New Bedford will establish a restaurant reopening advisory group, co-chaired by City Planner Tabitha Harkin and local businessman and restaurateur Stephen Silverstein, owner of The Black Whale and founder of Not Your Average Joe’s. “When restaurants reopen in New Bedford, we want …

Chris Lisinski State House News Service A Beacon Hill committee has endorsed two bills that would clear the way for rent control to return to Massachusetts more than two and a half decades after voters narrowly banned the practice statewide. The Joint Committee on Housing favorably recommended the legislation on …