Items by Tom Joyce
Taxes Skeptic, Former Teachers Union President Square Off in Taunton State Rep Race
June 1, 2020, 18:29 EDT
Massachusetts Republican Party Urges Governor Baker Not To Cave To Democrats and Instead Re-Open Economy
May 28, 2020, 12:10 EDT
How To Tell the Difference Between Ed Markey and Joe Kennedy III? Political Scientists Weigh In
May 27, 2020, 10:37 EDT
Bay State Restaurants Near Rhode Island, New Hampshire Worried About Continued Shutdown
May 24, 2020, 16:53 EDT
GOP Adviser Not Happy That Unusually High Falmouth Turnout Helped Put Cape Democrat Over the Top in State Senate Election
May 21, 2020, 16:51 EDT
Vice President Warren? Political Scientists Weigh In On Possibility Of A Biden-Warren Ticket
May 21, 2020, 10:27 EDT
Coronavirus, Left-Right Clashes Differentiate Candidates in Massachusetts Senate Special Election for Cape-and-Plymouth County Seat
May 18, 2020, 15:28 EDT
How Many Massachusetts Restaurants Will Survive State’s ‘New Normal’ Re-Opening?
May 14, 2020, 9:43 EDT
Dedham Pastor Fighting Board of Health Cease-and-Desist Order Against Church Services
May 14, 2020, 9:16 EDT
Dedham Church Cancels Services At Request of Landlord, Hopes To Try Again Next Weekend
May 11, 2020, 19:13 EDT
Adams Square Baptist Church Holds Fourth In-Person Church Service In Three Weeks
May 10, 2020, 20:29 EDT
Massachusetts Democrats Want Warren As Vice President; How Would That Affect the U.S. Senate?
May 9, 2020, 18:58 EDT
Dedham Board of Health Orders Church Not To Hold Services – Even Though They’re Limited To 10
May 7, 2020, 16:57 EDT
260 Clerics Tell Massachusetts Governor That Church Is Essential and It’s Time To Re-Open
May 7, 2020, 16:49 EDT
Hundreds Rally Outside State House Against Massachusetts’s Coronavirus Shutdown
May 4, 2020, 19:23 EDT
Worcester Pastor Holds Second Church Service, Draws Fine, Says He’ll Do It Again
May 3, 2020, 19:30 EDT
With High Unemployment, Some Wonder If Nonimmigrant Visa Programs Will Be Necessary This Summer
May 1, 2020, 14:56 EDT
Middleborough Gun Store Touts Freedom, Stays Open Despite Massachusetts Governor’s Shutdown
April 29, 2020, 19:29 EDT
Massachusetts Coronavirus Hospital Beds Figures Finally Public — Show Plateau
April 28, 2020, 21:29 EDT
Worcester Officials Throw Down, Tell Pastor Not To Have Another Church Service
April 27, 2020, 22:04 EDT
Worcester Church Holds Regular Service – Believed To Be First in Massachusetts Since Governor’s Ban
April 26, 2020, 20:01 EDT
State’s Highest Court Sides With GOP on Signature Requirements in Massachusetts Races
April 18, 2020, 11:01 EDT
Massachusetts in Poor Position to Pay Out Unemployment Compensation, Research Shows
April 14, 2020, 17:14 EDT
Boston Public Schools Students Getting No Formal Instruction During Coronavirus Emergency; Teachers Still Getting Paid
April 6, 2020, 20:43 EDT
More Homeschoolers On the Way? Some Think Coronavirus Emergency May Make Converts
April 5, 2020, 16:42 EDT
Suspend the Lottery? Some Say It Would Help People During Coronavirus Crisis
March 31, 2020, 20:44 EDT
Medical Experts Commend Massachusetts For Switching Back To Single-Use Plastic Bags
March 27, 2020, 23:35 EDT
Massachusetts Governor So Far Not Joining Most States in Pushing Back State Tax Filing Deadline Because of Coronavirus
March 27, 2020, 6:15 EDT
No Corona-Extension? Massachusetts Republicans Say Signature Deadline Favors Entrenched Democrats
March 26, 2020, 18:12 EDT
Outdoor Activities Largely Unimpeded By Coronavirus Pandemic — With A Catch
March 25, 2020, 18:00 EDT
Democracy In Inaction: Massachusetts Special Election Candidates Weigh In On Elections Being Postponed
March 24, 2020, 16:17 EDT
Cape, Islands, and Berkshires Could Go Without J-1 Visa Foreign-Worker Program This Summer
March 23, 2020, 19:38 EDT
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker Taking Criticism For Handling of Coronavirus Pandemic
March 21, 2020, 17:50 EDT
Bill Keating Explains His Support For H-2B Visa Program for Foreign Workers
March 14, 2020, 14:57 EDT
Coaches, Players React To Cancelling of Massachusetts High School Championship Games
March 13, 2020, 16:33 EDT
Gas Price Up 26 Cents A Gallon in Massachusetts? Carbon-Emissions Fuel Fee A Lot More Expensive Than Originally Thought, New Study Finds
March 12, 2020, 19:44 EDT
Proposed Fuel Tax Increases for Massachusetts Not in Working Class’s Best Interests, Critics Say
March 9, 2020, 15:51 EDT
Why Some Gave Significant Cash To Deval Patrick’s Presidential Campaign
February 26, 2020, 15:40 EST
Ed Markey: $15 An Hour Minimum Wage Maybe Isn’t High Enough
February 24, 2020, 18:49 EST
Elizabeth Warren’s Corporate Income Tax Would Crush Jobs and Wages, Tax Foundation Says
February 23, 2020, 4:04 EST
Warren Calls Bloomberg Racist, Says She’d Support Him In A General Election
February 20, 2020, 17:31 EST
Investigation of Spray Paint Vandalism of Plymouth Monuments Continuing
February 18, 2020, 18:13 EST
Joe-Joe-Joe Says No-No-No About Kennedy Name Enabling His U.S. Senate Run
February 17, 2020, 15:36 EST
Major Mass. Pike Project in Allston Needs Major Changes To Reduce Cost and Disruption, Pioneer Institute Says
February 14, 2020, 19:44 EST
No Path Forward for Elizabeth Warren’s Campaign for President, Political Scientists Say
February 12, 2020, 15:09 EST
Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Bennet Breaks With Party, Supports School Choice, Charter Schools
February 10, 2020, 18:54 EST
GOP Presidential Candidate Joe Walsh Mysteriously Absent From His Own Campaign Events
February 6, 2020, 17:34 EST
Climate-Change Carbon-Emissions Fuel ‘Fee’ Would Whack Uber and Lyft Drivers
February 1, 2020, 20:24 EST
Gas Tax, Tolls, Illegal Immigration Among Priorities for Jay McMahon in Run for Massachusetts Senate
January 31, 2020, 16:38 EST
Sanctuary State Bill Opponents Say It Would Make Massachusetts Less Safe
January 25, 2020, 11:45 EST
Climate-Change Activists Like Baker’s Net-Zero Emissions Goal, But Skeptics Are Counting the Cost
January 23, 2020, 19:52 EST
Carbon-Emissions Fee on Gasoline Might Tank Regional Economy, Conservative Think Tanks Say
January 18, 2020, 0:38 EST
Support for Charlie Baker’s Carbon-Emissions Fee on Gasoline Nonexistent Among Republicans
January 17, 2020, 9:00 EST
What Sex Ed Bill Says All Massachusetts Public School Students Should Learn — Graphic Content Warning
January 16, 2020, 21:16 EST
Rent Control Supporters Dominate Beacon Hill Hearing – But Opponents Say It Would Help Few While Hurting Many
January 15, 2020, 8:20 EST
Once Rejected by Voters, Rent Control Back on the Table in Massachusetts
January 13, 2020, 17:12 EST
Elizabeth Warren Opted Against Paying Massachusetts’s Optional Higher Tax Rate
January 9, 2020, 20:02 EST
Warren, Sanders Don’t Need A Good Showing in New Hampshire — They Need To Win
January 3, 2020, 11:46 EST
Elizabeth Warren Shifts On Nuclear Power — No Longer Totally Against It, Apparently
December 21, 2019, 16:01 EST
Buy Trump Stuff? You Might Be Surprised How Many Massachusetts People Do
December 13, 2019, 17:45 EST
