Politics

Chris Lisinski State House News Service As they settle in for debate on a sweeping police reform bill and more than 200 proposed changes to its text, House lawmakers will need to grapple with blistering opposition from one of the largest law enforcement associations in Massachusetts. Lawmakers this month are …

Chris Lisinski State House News Service One of Massachusetts’s neighbors to the south will subject visitors from nearly two dozen states to fines up to $1,000 if they do not self-isolate for 14 days upon arrival. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday that travelers from 22 states with high rates …

Chris Lisinski State House News Service The University of Massachusetts system, the third-largest employer in the state, will cut about 6 percent of its full-time equivalent workforce and furlough thousands as part of its efforts to close a $264 million budget gap ripped open by the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly three …

The following statement was released by Billy Sylvia the President of the New Bedford Firefighters Unuin – Local 841: “Brothers and Sisters, Mayor Mitchell has presented his budget for fiscal year 2021 along with an address to the City Council. In his address, he has announced his decision to decommission …

Matt Murphy State House News Service The pressure from Democrats on Gov. Charlie Baker to extend a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures into November intensified on Friday, with Attorney General Maura Healey calling such a step “critical,” and a majority of the Committee on Housing urging the governor to keep …

Mayor Jon Mitchell presented his Fiscal Year 2021 City Budget before the New Bedford City Council on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, via virtual meeting due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In his accompanying letter to the Council presenting the $365 million general fund budget, Mayor Mitchell wrote: “The situation facing …

Dartmouth Police and Fire, the Dartmouth Harbor Master, Massachusetts Coast Guard, Massachusetts Environmental Police and the Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office began a search for missing fisherman Robert Griffith, 76 years of age of South Dartmouth, MA after his wife reported him missing …

Colin A. Young State House News Service The state’s highest court will hear arguments in September in a lawsuit brought against Gov. Charlie Baker challenging his authority to declare a COVID-19 state of emergency and to issue the emergency orders that have shaped life in Massachusetts for the last four …

The following letter was sent to us from the Fall River Police Union: City Council President Cliff Ponte, I write to you today in regards to Mayor Paul Coogan’s appropriation order request to transfer funds from the Fall River Police Department’s FY 2020 budget to the Community Maintenance, Expenses and …

Public Safety Committee Chairman and Councillor Brian K. Gomes convened the Commission on Police Use of Force Policies last week with a clear mandate to review three existing policies at the NBPD that embody “use of force” and produce recommendations for improvement within a 60-day timeframe. Mayor Jon Mitchell created …