January 28, 2014 Gov. Deval Patrick plans to use his last State of the State address to reflect on his seven years in office so far and lay out his goals for the final months of his administration.
In excerpts provided by the governor's office from the speech prepared for delivery Tuesday night, Patrick says when he took office in 2007 he expected financial challenges, but not a ``global economic collapse
January 14, 2014
January 9, 2014
By now, Massachusetts wasn't supposed to have any homeless families.
In 2008, Gov. Deval Patrick set a goal of virtually eliminating family homelessness in five years. The program's aim was to better detect when families were on the verge of falling into homelessness _ and then moving in swiftly with aid.
Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama was dishonest about the Affordable Care Act and should have phased it in like Massachusetts did with its health care overhaul.
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor told NBC's ``Meet the Press'' on Sunday that Obama wasn't truthful when he promised that all Americans could keep their health insurance under the federal health care law.