BOSTON — Advocates in favor of lifting the legislative cap on the number of charter schools allowed to operate in Massachusetts swarmed Beacon Hill on Tuesday to lobby lawmakers and received an assist from Gov. Charlie Baker in the process.
Clutching an oversized binder stuffed with the signatures of 25,000 urging state pols to pass legislation removing the charter school cap, Baker addressed a crowd of advocates and later signed a ceremonial banner the group toted to the State House and unfurled inside Nurses' Hall.
BOSTON — Days after Connecticut woke up to news that corporate behemoth General Electric is moving to Massachusetts to escape an inhospitable tax climate, the Massachusetts legislature held hearings on whether to impose a "millionaire's tax," an additional tax to income earned in excess of $1 million.
The hearing before the Joint Committee on Revenue, which attracted scores of citizen spectators on Tuesday, is the next step in a years-long process to get the proposed constitutional amendment before voters on the 2018 ballot.
