fiscal year 2018

BOSTON (AP) _ It seems a reasonable assumption that Massachusetts politicians would be eager to spend more than $1 billion that _ in a manner of speaking _ is just lying around on Beacon Hill. Yet nearly three months after the state's previous fiscal year ended with a sizeable revenue surplus, the Democratic-controlled Legislature has yet to act on a plan for how to use that unanticipated cash and

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON — Negotiations over a new state budget and legislation overhauling the retail marijuana legalization law might appear on paper to have little to do with one another. But multiple sources close to the deliberations told the News Service on Wednesday that the fates of the two bills have become inextricably linked, with some officials now believing that a compromise on the budget

STATE HOUSE, BOSTON — Five days into the new fiscal year, Massachusetts has scant and dwindling company on the list of states yet to finalize a 2018 spending plan. After Maine and New Jersey reached deals to end their government shutdowns, just six states remain in budgetary limbo: Massachusetts, Oregon, Wisconsin, Illinois, Rhode Island and Connecticut, according to the National Conference of Sta