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Driving while impaired, MBTA rate hikes and road decongestion were just some of the items addressed this week.

Driving while impaired, MBTA rate hikes and road decongestion were just some of the items addressed this week.

The nursing homes will pay $500,000 in fines, and one company is barred from doing business in Massachusetts for seven years.
Municipalities over the past decade have tripled the amount they could raise under the local tax limit but choose not to, new data says.
Gov. Charlie Baker's road safety bill marks the first time he has proposed a ban on hand-held cellphone use for drivers.
The funding will allow combating climate change while giving each city and town the flexibility to make locally-driven decisions.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is only fourth in the Granite State according to the newest UMass poll.
One Massachusetts Democrat is trying to move up the primary date to the summer - and keep the president off the ballot. Here's how.
"I think the president is in for one hell of a fight and I think he is not on solid ground here," U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern said.
The number dropped slightly for the second straight year, showing perhaps some signs of progress in the battle against an epidemic.
The governor filed legislation Tuesday that would require Massachusetts drivers to put the phone down and buckle their seatbelt.
As the government shutdown reaches the one-month mark, it shows little sign of coming to an end.
The closest recreational marijuana dispensary to Rhode Island could open as soon as Sunday.
Delays are nothing new to the MBTA, but these ones are for a fleet of 152 new Orange Line cars.
A Wednesday flurry of laws included Pay increases for National Guard members and $3 million for the agency that oversees the pot industry.
As Warren prepares to head to Iowa, she did not disclose any plans to visit the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire.
On average, 156 people in Massachusetts died each day during 2016, according to the Massachusetts Deaths report.
The two sides said in rare joint statement reaching a deal by Dec. 28 is their "shared intent."
New data showed that the population in Massachusetts grew by 38,903 people to 6.9 million between July 1, 2017 and July 1, 2018.
Workers are set to receive a $175m income tax break and there's now a possibility that a 5 percent income tax rate will happen in 2020.
Four years and six general managers later after Gov. Charlie Baker took over, there's another change atop the beleaguered MBTA.