ADVANCES – WEEK OF MARCH 29, 2015
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE
STATE HOUSE — Gov. Charlie Baker has done transparent that he’s opposite lifting taxes or formulating new ones though he’s not opposite to creation changes in a stream taxation code. Baker wants to put in place an stretched credit to broach taxation use to some-more low-income families and to frame off a books a taxation mangle that supporters contend has drawn film attention work to Massachusetts. Those taxation proposals, along with Baker’s check and due early retirement program, are set to be placed underneath a legislative microscope during a array of open hearings early subsequent week. Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash skeleton to make a box for a governor’s taxation law changes during a contention on Tuesday.
Before state officials puncture into their effort for a week, they’ll accumulate in Dorchester with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other members of Congress Monday to open a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for a United States Senate. UMass-Boston skeleton to tighten Monday for a president’s visit, that will be his second to a campus. As a U.S. senator, Obama delivered a university’s derivation chateau in 2006.
– Proposals to spend $200 million on internal highway repairs and launch an early retirement module for executive bend employees privileged a House this week and are on to a Senate. A corner cabinet skeleton a open contention Monday on a early retirement proposal, that a House authorized though rigourously vetting first.
State puncture preserve appropriation duration is about to run out with an distillate of new appropriations hung adult in contention cabinet talks between a House and Senate on a roughly $350 million supplemental check that has privileged any branch, though in opposite forms.
– The state’s film attention taxation credit comes adult for contention Tuesday along with Gov. Baker’s offer to double a warranted income taxation credit during a Revenue Committee contention on a initial vital taxation proposals from a governor. Baker says he’s been stealing a “positive vibe” from a Legislature about a warranted income taxation credit expansion. The predestine of a film attention taxation credits appears reduction certain, with House leaders bearing that taxation mangle and vast differences of opinion on a value to Massachusetts taxpayers.
– Gov. Charlie Baker’s check proposals in a areas of housing, mercantile development, workforce training and business law are adult for a contention during a open contention Wednesday in Everett. Baker deputies transport to Methuen Tuesday to margin questions and explain proposals covering transportation, appetite and a environment.
– A charge force indifferent by Gov. Baker to examine a MBTA in a arise of a winter use failures is approaching to contention a breeze to Baker subsequent week. The administrator pronounced this week that he didn’t design a open recover of a news until a week of Apr 6. Baker this week pronounced a charge force had met with many people, and that he had sat in on some of a meetings. “I feel really good about where they are and where they’re going,” he said. As a breeze starts circulating, a Legislature’s Transportation Committee skeleton a camber of slip hearings on travel issues subsequent week.
– The House could shortly have a full register of 160 members. Voters in Shrewsbury and Westborough, as good as East Boston, go to a polls Tuesday to elect successors to Matthew Beaton and Carlo Basile, who stepped down after being inaugurated final Nov to join a Baker administration. Democrats are in good position to keep a East Boston chair and Republican Hannah Kane is perplexing to seize a chair reason by Beaton, her former business associate. Democrat Jason Palitsch is Kane’s competition.
SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 2015
ROSENBERG ON SENTENCING REFORM: Senate President Stanley Rosenberg speaks during an End Mass Incarceration Together event. The eventuality aims to emanate an transformation devise for legislation finale imperative smallest sentences in Massachusetts. (Saturday, 11:45 a.m., Universalist Unitarian Church, 165 Main Street, Amherst)
GINORMOUS CLIMB TO RAISE AWARENESS: The Suffolk Children’s Advocacy Center will be holding a second annual Ginormous Climb to a tip of John Hancock Tower to lift recognition for abused children in Massachusetts. Climbers devise to lift $75,000 to support immature children and their families that revisit a Children’s Advocacy Center. They will be assimilated by Boston Police Commissioner William Evans and Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, as good as Susan Goldfarb, Executive Director of a Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County. (Saturday, 8:30 a.m., John Hancock Tower, 200 Clarendon St.)
SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 2015
TREASURER AT UMASS: Treasurer Deborah Goldberg is scheduled to pronounce during a ADL’s Nation of Immigrants Community Seder. (Sunday, 3 p.m., UMass Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd.)
VICKI KENNEDY ‘ON THE RECORD': On a Record travels to a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for a United States Senate to talk Victoria Kennedy, a late U.S. senator’s widow. Kennedy provides a hide rise during a new Columbia Point hospital and talks to horde Janet Wu inside a center’s reproduction of a U.S. Senate chamber. (Sunday, 11 a.m.,. WCVB)
BUMP AT HYDE PARK AWARDS: Auditor Suzanne Bump attends Hyde Park’s “Women Amongst Us” awards eventuality that will respect Dr. Erica Hirshler, Marietta Phinney and Brittany Butler. (Sunday, 2 p.m., Riverside Theatre Works, 45 Fairmount Avenue, Hyde Park)
AG HEALEY ON KELLER: Attorney General Maura Healey appears on WBZ’s Keller during Large program. According to horde Jon Keller, Healey will plead a intensity for a list doubt on a 2024 Olympics bid for Boston, a budding casino attention in a state and a doubt of legalizing marijuana, that Healey opposes. (Sunday, 8:30 a.m., WBZ-TV)
MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015
HOUSE AND SENATE: Both branches start a week with spontaneous sessions Monday during 11 a.m.
COMMUTER RAIL DUE BACK ON FULL SCHEDULE: The MBTA’s commuter rail skeleton to resume full use Monday, following weeks of reduced schedules brought about by apparatus failures during a camber of complicated snowstorms.
OBAMA HEADLINES EMK INSTITUTE DEDICATION: The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for a United States Senate will acquire President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden to a institute’s loyalty ceremony. Obama will be assimilated by stream and former members of Congress, members of a Kennedy family, as good as other supervision officials including colleagues of a late senator, Secretary of State John Kerry, Sen. John McCain, and Gov. Charlie Baker. The 10 a.m. grave loyalty of a hospital will be followed by a 12:15 p.m. loyalty of a Senate Chamber, with a accepting to follow. Remarks are scheduled from Obama, Biden, Baker, Kerry, McCain, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh; Sen. Elizabeth Warren; Sen. Ed Markey; former Sens. Tom Daschle and Trent Lott, former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, Connecticut state Sen. Ted Kennedy Jr., and Victoria Reggie Kennedy, co-founder and boss of a residence of directors of a EMK Institute; and Dr. Jean MacCormack, EMK Institute President. UMass-Boston is sealed Monday for a president’s visit. (Monday, 10 a.m., Edward M. Kennedy Institute for a United States Senate, Columbia Point, Boston)
OBAMA DNC FUNDRAISER: President Barack Obama will revisit Area 4 in Cambridge midday Monday for a Democratic National Committee “roundtable” fundraiser, where around 30 supporters are approaching to attend. The limit extend is $33,400, according to a DNC official. Obama is in city for a loyalty of a Edward M. Kennedy Institute for a U.S. Senate. The grill is situated nearby MIT, biotech companies and startups around Kendall Square and is named after a area between Central Square and Kendall. (Monday, midday, Area 4, 500 Technology Square, Cambridge)
BAKER, LEGISLATIVE LEADERS MEET: Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, Gov. Charlie Baker and House Speaker Robert DeLeo lay down for their unchanging weekly meeting. (Monday, 2 p.m., Speaker’s Office)
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMITTEE: The Public Service Committee binds a open contention Monday on Gov. Charlie Baker’s check proposing an early retirement module for executive bend employees. The House this week authorized a check (H 61). Sen. James Timilty of Walpole and Rep. James Murphy of Weymouth co-chair a committee. (Monday, 11 a.m., Room A-1)
ROSENBERG AT POVERTY EVENT: Senate President Stanley Rosenberg speaks during a COMPASS for Kids Graduation. The classification works on family misery and workforce growth issues. (Monday, 6 p.m., 354 Merrimack Street, Lawrence)
ROSENBERG IN LAWRENCE: Senate President Stanley Rosenberg tours a Lawrence Police Department with Sen. Barbara L’Italien. (Monday, 7 p.m., 90 Lowell St, Lawrence)
NEW BEDFORD TERMINAL OPERATOR: Proposals are due Monday from intensity New Bedford sea depot operators. The Patrick administration expelled a bid for an user to work with offshore breeze developers and load transporters out of a trickery that was recently built. The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center expelled a ask for proposals for veteran sea depot operators, and 5 intensity operators responded to an Apr 2014 ask for information, including 3 formed in a United States, one formed in Germany and one from Canada. State officials reported a respondents indicated they would be means to conduct a deployment of offshore breeze projects as good as a doing of load such as industrial equipment, steel, timber pellets, uninformed fruit and paper products. Proposals are due on Monday. Cape Wind, an offshore appetite devise targeted for Nantucket Sound, had designed to franchise space during a depot though corroborated out of that franchise after it was incompetent to arrange financing to allege a project.
FINANCIAL LITERACY BOARD MEETING: Treasurer Deborah Goldberg will chair a Financial Literacy Trust Fund Board meeting. The bulletin apparatus embody deliberating a growth cabinet and voting on a elder financial empowerment summit. (Monday, 2 p.m., One Ashburton Place, 10th Floor, a Charles River Room)
MASS DEMS REGIONAL ORGANIZING SERIES: The Massachusetts Democratic Party skeleton to horde an organizing open to move together Democratic State Committee members, City and Town Committee members, internal activists and inaugurated officials to plead a destiny of a party. (Monday, 5:30 p.m., East End Social Club, 15 W 4th St.)
MASSRECYCLE: Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Martin Suuberg will be a keynote orator during a MassRecycle Conference. (Monday, 9 a.m., Quincy Marriott)
TRANSPORTATION OVERSIGHT HEARINGS: The initial of dual Oversight Hearings by a Joint Committee on Transportation will be held. The panel, purportedly deliberating “MassDOT Analysis: Finances, Capital Assets/State of Good Repair, Governance and Organizational Structure” will see Secretary Stephanie Pollack of MassDOT, Dana Levenson, MassDOT CFO and Tom Tinlin, Acting Highway Administrator speaking. Other speakers will embody Frank DePaola, Interim MBTA General Manager; Jonathan Davis, MBTA Assistant General Manager; Sean McCarthy, MBTA Assistant GM of Operations; Jeff Gonneville, MBTA Chief Mechanical Officer; John Jenkins, Chair of a MassDOT Board of Directors; and Paul Regan, Executive Director of a MBTA Advisory Board. (Monday, 1:30 p.m., State House Hearing Room B-2)
URBAN FUTURE PANEL DISCUSSION: The Nature Conservancy’s Future of Nature 2015 Boston Speaker Series will start with a row contention titled, “The Future of a City: Can Cities be a Key to a Greener World?” The row will be moderated by WBUR’s Bruce Gellerman, and try either civic areas can be environmentally sound and how they can be done that way. Panelists embody Kent Larson, principal investigate scientist during a MIT Media Lab; Nigel Jacob, civic technologist in chateau during Living Cities; and Pascal Mittermaier, tellurian handling executive of volatile cities during The Nature Conservancy. Prior to a panel, there will be an hour-long accepting starting during 5:30 p.m. (Monday, 6:30 p.m., Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for a Arts, Wimberly Theatre, 527 Tremont St.)
MASSDOT PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS: MassDOT’s Public Private Partnership Oversight Commission meets. The dialect is deliberation a thought of widening Rt. 3 South with additional fee lanes. At a open with a South Shore Coalition progressing this week, MassDOT officials presented a commentary from a investigate on a plan. A slideshow supposing by MassDOT to a News Service on a devise says a due 17 mile fee line would run from a Norwell-Marshfield line north of Exit 12 to Exit 18/19 during a Braintree separate and over Exit 6 on I-93 in Quincy. The fee lanes would be in a highway’s median and along a easy highway shoulder. MassDOT reports that a mezzanine includes many high-crash locations. The investigate will continue to establish suitable fee prices that would concede for a continual speed of 45mph for drivers. The news estimates construction would take about 4 years and cost $600 million to $800 million. The seven-member row is chaired by Alan MacDonald and includes former U.S. Rep. John Olver, Massachusetts Organization of State Engineers and Scientists President Joseph Dorant, former Boston Transportation Commissioner John Vitagliano and other engineers and travel specialists. The elect was combined by a Legislature as partial of a 2009 travel remodel law and reviews public-private partnership opportunities for travel infrastructure projects. South Shore lawmakers reportedly voiced doubt about a fee line thought during an eventuality this week in Hingham. (Monday, 10 a.m., State Transportation Building MassDOT Boardroom 10 Park Plaza, Suite 3830 Boston)
QUINCY OUTPATIENT CLINIC RIBBON CUTTING: The VA Boston Healthcare System will applaud a relocation of a Quincy Outpatient Clinic with a badge cutting. Primary caring services to some-more than 1,400 veterans vital in a Quincy, Braintree and Weymouth area will be delivered during a new location. Gov. Baker skeleton to attend. (Monday, 1 p.m., 110 W. Squantum St., North Quincy)
BUMP AT STONEHILL: Auditor Suzanne Bump is a featured orator during a Martin Institute for Law and Society during Stonehill College. Bump is set to plead burden in government. (Monday, 11:30 a.m., Martin Institute Auditorium, Stonehill College, 320 Washington St. (Route 138), Easton)
HEALTH CARE ADVOCATES’ FORUM – NEW BEDFORD: Health caring and home caring workers, members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, internal lawmakers and health caring advocates take partial in a initial of dual health caring workers’ forums to foster investments in health caring and a adoption of a $15 smallest wage. (Monday, 6 p.m., New Bedford Senior Center, 1 Oneida St., New Bedford)
TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015
HOUSE SPECIAL ELECTIONS: Polls open during 7 a.m. on Tuesday in East Boston, Shrewsbury and tools of Westborough. Voters in those areas will reinstate dual former House lawmakers who assimilated a Baker administration progressing this year: Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matt Beaton (R-Shrewsbury) and Chief Secretary Carlo Basile (D-East Boston). Democrat Jason Palitsch, a Shrewsbury School Committee member and former State House aide, is opposed with Republican Hannah Kane, a former Beaton business partner, for Beaton’s seat. Both coasted by their particular primaries. Gov. Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito have strike a route for Kane, while Palitsch has picked adult support from Congressman Jim McGovern and Auditor Suzanne Bump. The district has been historically placed in Republican hands, with Polito among GOP members who have represented a 11th Worcester House District. The district also includes dual precincts in Westborough. In East Boston, Democrat Adrian Madaro will face off opposite eccentric Joanne Pomodoro, a amicable worker, for Basile’s former seat. Madaro won a five-way primary on Mar 3. East Boston is in Suffolk County, a Democratic stronghold, and Democrats such as Sen. Anthony Petruccelli have formerly reason a seat.
WAYS AND MEANS – FISCAL 2016 BUDGET HEARING: Transportation, appetite and a sourroundings will be a topics of contention during a mercantile 2016 check contention in Methuen. Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack skeleton to attest along with MBTA Interim General Manager Frank DePaola and Acting Highway Administrator Tom Tinlin. Secretary of a Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Matthew Beaton skeleton to attest and he will be accompanied by Commissioner of a Department of Agricultural Resources John Lebeaux, Commissioner of a Department of Environmental Protection Martin Suuberg, Commissioner of a Department of Fish Game George Peterson, Director of a Office of Environmental Law Enforcement Colonel James McGinn, Acting Commissioner of a Department of Conservation Recreation Jack Murray, Chair of a Department of Public Utilities Angela O’Connor, Chief Financial Officer of a Department of Energy Resources Steve White and Acting CFO a Executive Office of Energy and Environment Kevin Miller. Rep. Linda Dean Campbell (D-Methuen) and Senate Economic Development Chairwoman Eileen Donoghue (D-Lowell) will co-chair a hearing. (Tuesday, 10 a.m., Methuen High School, 1 Ranger Road, Methuen)
TRANSPORTATION OVERSIGHT HEARINGS: The Transportation Committee skeleton an slip contention to excavate into a winter sight use problems. Lawmakers devise to hear from Gerald Francis, General Manager of Keolis Commuter Services section in Boston. Keolis runs a commuter rail system, that has been tormented by apparatus failures and sight cancellations and delays this winter. Lawmakers will also hear from Tom Murray, President of Transport Workers Union – Commuter Rail, and Jim O’Brien of a Carmen’s Union. (Tuesday, 11 a.m., State House Hearing Room A-1)
REVENUE COMMITTEE: Lawmakers have indifferent a State House’s largest open room for what could be a many endless contention of taxation slight so distant this session. The Revenue Committee skeleton a open contention Tuesday on Gov. Charlie Baker’s offer (H 62) to enhance a warranted income taxation credit and discharge a taxation credit set adult to pull film attention business to Massachusetts. The check also includes a non-filer taxation freedom module that a administrator hopes will beget $100 million in mercantile 2016. Baker’s devise would broach adult to $1,874 in annual taxation use to low-income operative families, adult from $937 per year. The administrator claims a film taxation credit essentially advantages people who live outward Massachusetts and wants to proviso it out by Jul 1, 2017. Secretary of The cabinet will also take testimony on warranted income taxation credit bills filed by Reps. Marjorie Decker (H 2479) and Brad Jones (H 2563) and a Rep. Tackey Chan check (H 2469) stealing a film taxation credit’s death date. Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash and Department of Revenue officials are approaching to attest for a Baker administration. (Tuesday, 10:30 a.m., Gardner Auditorium, State House)
EARLY EDUCATION LEGISLATION: Education Committee Co-chair Rep. Alice Peisch, Senate Ways and Means Committee Vice Chair Sal DiDomenico and Early Education Commissioner Tom Weber devise to announce a new debate around early preparation and to foster legislation designed to concede some-more children to attend high peculiarity pre-kindergarten programs. Organizers of an eventuality Tuesday contend other attendees will embody Reps. Decker and Silvia, Lowell Superintendent Jean Franco, Jason Williams of Stand for Children, Chris Martes and Amy O’Leary of Strategies for Children, and Brenda Powers of Nazareth Child Care Center in Boston. (Tuesday, 11 a.m., Room 222, State House)
MASS. FOOD TRUST IMPLEMENTATION: Sens. Moore and Chang-Diaz and Reps. Donahue and Hunt are sponsoring a lecture Tuesday on a health and mercantile advantages that could come from implementing a Massachusetts Food Trust program, that was combined to yield loans, grants and other technical assistance to support a development, restoration and enlargement of healthy food retailers and food enterprises in low-income communities. Attendees embody Rebekah Gewirtz of a Mass. Public Health Association, Miriam Manon of The Food Trust, Sajan Philip of a New York Healthy Food and Healthy Communities Fund, Dwayne Boudreaux of Circle Food Store in New Orleans, and Chris Flynn of a Massachusetts Food Association. (Tuesday, 10:30 a.m., House Members’ Lounge, Room 350, State House)
ASH AT EVERETT CHAMBER: Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash offers remarks to a Everett Chamber of Commerce. (Tuesday, 7:45 a.m., BNY Mellon, 135 Santille Highway, Everett)
MASSTERLIST TRIVIA: Mike Deehan hosts a third annual MassterList Trivia Challenge, an dusk of locally focused group trivia foe for readers of a giveaway daily news email. Question categories will embody “The Life and Times of Charles Duane Baker Jr.,”Around a State House,” domestic story and several radio shows about a White House. Food and prizes will be furnished by unite a Liberty Square Group. The diversion will start during 6 p.m. (Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Market, 21 Broad St, Boston)
ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Department of Energy Resources Acting Commissioner Burgess will chair a open of a Energy Efficiency Advisory Council. (Tuesday, 1 p.m., 100 Cambridge Street, Boston)
UMASS PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH: The UMass Presidential Search Committee will reason a second meeting. The hunt cabinet will yield an refurbish on new UMass campus visits, and plead subsequent stairs in a hunt process. The open is open to a public. (Tuesday, 10 a.m., UMass President’s Office, Amherst Room, 33rd Floor, 225 Franklin St.)
MASS STATE LOTTERY COMMISSION: Treasurer Deborah Goldberg is scheduled to chair a Massachusetts State Lottery Commission meeting. (Tuesday, 10 a.m., One Ashburton Place, 12th Floor Conference Room)
BOSTON COLLEGE CHIEF EXECUTIVES CLUB LUNCHEON: Treasurer Deborah Goldberg is scheduled to attend a Boston College Chief Executives Club luncheon. (Tuesday, 12 p.m., Boston Harbor Hotel, 70 Rowes Wharf, Wharf Room, Boston)
ASH ADDRESSES SMALL BIZ CAUCUS: Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash offers remarks to a Small Business Caucus in a House Members’ Lounge. (Tuesday, 12:00, Room 350, State House)
POLITICS EGGS: Former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley will be a featured orator in a latest installment of Politics Eggs, a forum for intensity presidential candidates. A Democrat, Gov. O’Malley served dual terms as administrator of Maryland. Before that he was mayor of Baltimore. (Tuesday, 8 a.m., The Bedford Village Inn, 2 Olde Bedford Way, New Hampshire)
BAKER AT AG DAY: Gov. Charlie Baker attend Massachusetts Agriculture Day. (Tuesday, 11:15 a.m., Great Hall)
HEALTH CARE ADVOCATES’ FORUM – SPRINGFIELD: Health caring and home caring workers, members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, internal lawmakers and health caring advocates take partial in a second in a set of health caring workers’ forums to foster investments in health caring and a adoption of a $15 smallest wage. (Tuesday, 6 p.m., Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, 17 John St., Springfield)
CASA MYRNA EVENT: Casa Myrna, a Boston-based non-profit dedicated to delivering solutions to finish domestic and dating violence, will horde an eventuality – Make It Your Business – that will underline remarks by Gov. Charlie Baker. Casa Myrna will benefaction a Corporate Engagement Award of Excellence to Carol Churchill of Distrigas of Massachusetts and Risa Sherman of a Boston Beer Company. Gov. Baker skeleton to attend during 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., Metro Credit Union, 1071 Mass Ave.)
U.S. AMBASSADOR TO PORTUGAL VISITS UMASS: The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture will horde U.S. Ambassador to Portugal Robert Sherman. The envoy will plead his practice in Lisbon over a past year, and a common interests of a United States and Portugal. Prior to apropos ambassador, he was a initial member of a Boston bureau of Greenburg Traurig, an ubiquitous law firm, and has also served as an partner profession ubiquitous in Massachusetts. (Tuesday, 11:30 a.m., Claire T. Carney Library Robert F. Stoico/FirstFed Charitable
Foundation Grand Reading Room, UMass Dartmouth)
ROSENBERG ON WBUR: Senate President Stanley Rosenberg sits down for an talk with WBUR’s Radio Boston program. (Tuesday, 3 p.m., 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston)
“FIGHT FOR $15″ FORUM: Health caring and home caring workers, legislators, health caring advocates and village leaders devise to horde a village forum to call for a $15 an hour vital wage, as good as new investments in health caring services. It’s partial of a rising “Fight for $15″ movement. (Tuesday, 6 p.m., Mr. Calvary Baptist Church, 17 John St., Springfield)
COAKLEY CELEBRATION: “Martha Coakley – a tribute” will applaud former Attorney General Martha Coakley’s 28 years of open use as a prosecutor and a state’s tip authorised official. The eventuality serves as “an eventuality to her many friends, colleagues and supporters to contend appreciate you,” to Coakley, according to an invitation. Proceeds from a eventuality will go to a Youth Villages Germaine Lawrence Campus in Arlington. (Tuesday, 6 p.m., Liberty Hotel, Boston)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 2015
SENATE JOINT CAUCUS: Prior to their 2 p.m. grave session, a Senate skeleton to reason a open with senators from both parties behind sealed doors. Since holding over a cover in January, Senate President Stanley Rosenberg has been holding semi-regular sealed meetings with both a Democratic and Republican caucuses. The open is sealed to a press. (Wednesday, 11:45 a.m., Senate President’s Office)
SENATE FORMAL SESSION: The Senate skeleton a full grave session. The House this week sent a Senate bills substantiating an early retirement module for certain state employees and sanctioning $200 million in internal highway correct funds. (Wednesday, 2 p.m., Senate Chamber)
WORKFORCE INVESTMENT: The Massachusetts Workforce Investment Board will reason a open meeting. (Wednesday, 8:30 a.m., Phoenician Restaurant, 12 Alpha St., Haverhill)
WAYS AND MEANS – FISCAL 2016 BUDGET HEARING: Economic development, housing and libraries will be focuses of a House and Senate Ways and Means contention on a mercantile 2016 check filed by Gov. Baker. Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash skeleton to attend along with Deputy Secretary Carolyn Kirk, Assistant Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship Katie Stebbins, Assistant Secretary for Business Development Nam Pham, Undersecretary for a Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation John Chapman and Undersecretary for a Department of Housing and Community Development Chrystal Kornegay. In addition, libraries and a informative legislature will be adult for discussion. Senate Vice Chairman of Ways and Means Sal DiDomenico (D-Everett) and Rep. Paul Brodeur (D-Melrose) will lead a hearing. (Wednesday, 10 a.m., Everett High School Library, 100 Elm Street, Everett)
MBTA WHITE PAPER: Municipal and business leaders who support additional appropriation for a MBTA will join with movement advocates to recover a white paper detailing a significance of a T to a economy, a appropriation needs to work and perform a state-of-good-repair reserve and a financial support required to “enhance use capacity” to accommodate increasing ridership demands. Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone, Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council President Rick Sullivan, Littleton Town Administrator Keith Bergman, Dennis DiZoglio of a Merrimack Valley Planning Commission, A Better City Chair Michael Cantalupa, Tedd Saunders, of a Saunders Hotel Group, Jesse Mermell, from a Alliance for Business Leadership, and others devise to attend. (Wednesday, 10:30 a.m., Park Street T Station)
SOLAR ENERGY AND NET METERING: A check filed by Rep. Calter and Sen. Eldridge aims to boost a state’s solar appetite zone and align net metering policies with a state’s 1,600 megawatt solar goal. The legislation (H 2852) exempts projects underneath 1 megawatt from a net metering top and sets a 20 percent solar by 2025 aim for Massachusetts while directing a state Department of Public Utilities to trigger an appetite storage program. Organizers of a legislative lecture Wednesday contend a arrangement is approaching during a eventuality from Mass Solar. (Wednesday, 11 a.m., House Members’ Lounge, Room 350, State House)
HEALTH POLICY COMMISSION: The Health Policy Commission’s Cost Trends and Market Performance Committee meets, with skeleton to plead a commission’s “research topics and dashboard” and a commission’s purpose in a integrity of need and essential services examination process. (Wednesday, 9:30 a.m., 50 Milk Street, 8 Floor, Boston)
HEALTH POLICY COMMISSION: The Health Policy Commission’s Care Delivery and Payment System Transformation Committee skeleton to accommodate to plead a commission’s acceptance programs, including Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) and Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Framework and Model Payment. Staff will also benefaction on a Registration of Provider Organizations (RPO) Data Submission Manual for Initial Registration: Part 2. (Wednesday, 11 a.m., 50 Milk Street, 8 Floor, Boston)
MASS DEMS REGIONAL ORGANIZING SERIES: The Massachusetts Democratic Party binds a spontaneous organizing open to move together State Committee members, City and Town Committee members, internal activists and inaugurated officials to plead a destiny of a party. The sixth open will be reason in Plymouth County. (Wednesday, 5:30 p.m., West Branch Library, 540 Forest Ave., Brockton)
STATE UNIVERSITIES DAY: House Speaker Robert DeLeo speaks during a State Universities Advocacy Day. Sen. Michael Moore and Rep. Tom Sannicandro, a co-chairmen of a Committee on Higher Education, also devise to pronounce during a eventuality where students will call for increasing state investment in a 9 state universities. (Wednesday, 10:30 a.m., Gardner Auditorium)
MUNI OVERSIGHT: Auditor Suzanne Bump chairs a Municipal Finance Oversight Board meeting. (Wednesday, 11 a.m., Auditor’s Office)
SEX OFFENDER RECIDIVISM: The Legislature’s Special Commission to Reduce a Recidivism of Sex Offenders meets. After a arrangement by Assistant Parole Supervisor Beth Lind, a row will devise for arriving meetings that will cover a Sex Offender Registry Board, a Department of Probation and open hearings. (Wednesday, 3 p.m., One Ashburton Place, 11th Floor, Matta Conference Room)
LIFE SCIENCES BREAKFAST: Sen. Thomas McGee, Angus McQuilken of a Mass. Life Sciences Center, Dr. Eugene Wong of Endicott College and Dr. Martha Farmer of North Shore Innoventures plead a creation economy on a row hosted by a North Shore Chamber of Commerce. (Wednesday, 7:30 a.m., Peabody Marriott Hotel, 8A Centennial Drive, Peabody)
ASH TOURS VERTEX: Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash skeleton to debate a Vertex Pharmaceuticals trickery and accommodate with staff. (Wednesday, 4 p.m., 11 Fan Pier Blvd., Fl. 14, Boston)
GOVERNOR’S COUNCIL: The Governor’s Council meets for their grave assembly. Gov. Charlie Baker has nonetheless to commission any legal appointees. The seven-member row has usually slight duties on a agenda. (Wednesday, 12 p.m., Governor’s Council Chamber)
CAMPAIGN FINANCE RALLY: According to Common Cause, a convene is designed Wednesday that is partial of events via a nation job on President Obama to emanate an executive sequence requiring financial avowal of choosing contributions done by sovereign contractors. In creation their appeal, attendees devise to remind a boss of his new call for “better politics.” (Wednesday, 12:00, State House steps)
BEVERLY DRAWBRIDGE COMMUNITY MEETING: Area officials will join MassDOT, MBTA and HNTB crew for a village open to plead a reconstruction and emissary devise for a Beverly Drawbridge. The drawbridge carries a Rockport and Newburyport commuter rail lines over a Danvers River; a devise will obligate a 21-day sight use shutdown. (Wednesday, 6 p.m., Beverly High School Auditorium, 100 Sohier Rd., Beverly)
DOMESTIC WORKERS RIGHTS LAW TAKES EFFECT: Nannies, housekeepers and others who work in their employer’s home will be postulated a array of new rights Wednesday. The Massachusetts Coalition for Domestic Workers skeleton to symbol a date a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights law takes effect. The 2014 law provides rights for time off, dishes and private communication for those whose workplace is someone else’s home. “This new law is a many expanded in a nation and provides some-more protections than a United Nations Convention for domestic workers,” a bloc said. Ai Jen Poo, executive executive of a National Domestic Workers Alliance, will attend a eventuality during a Dorchester kinship facility. (Wednesday, 6 p.m., 1199 SEIU, 150 Mt. Vernon St., Dorchester)
DISTRACTED DRIVING LAW: Rep. Cory Atkins skeleton to horde a luncheon lecture to chateau a dreaming pushing Law, an eventuality moderated by Dr. Jay Winsten, Associate Dean for Health Communication during a Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of a Center for Health Communication. Participants devise to plead a shortcomings of a law and how other states are rebellious a problem, and is sponsored by a Center for Health Communication during Harvard University. (Wednesday, 12:15 p.m., House Members’ Lounge, State House)
OPEN MEETING LAW EDUCATIONAL FORUM: Attorney General Maura Healey’s bureau hosts a giveaway educational forum to surprise a open and supervision officials on a Open Meeting Law and a requirements. (Wednesday, 6 p.m., Hanover Town Hall, Large Meeting Room, 550 Hanover St.)
UMASS CELEBRATION: Senate President Stanley Rosenberg attends a UMass 2015 Celebration in Dorchester. (Wednesday, 5:30 p.m., Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Columbia Point, Dorchester)
RIBBON CUTTING AT UMASS BOSTON: The University of Massachusetts Boston skeleton a ribbon-cutting rite for a new Integrated Sciences Complex. UMass Boston Chancellor Keith Motley; Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito; Boston Mayor Marty Walsh; Massachusetts Life Sciences Center President Susan Windham-Bannister; UMass Board of Trustees Chairman Victor Woolridge; UMass President Robert Caret; and James Burns, conduct of a Sanofi Boston RD Hub will all be in attendance. (Wednesday, 3:30 p.m., Integrated Sciences Complex, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Dorchester)
LOW-INCOME WOMEN EXHIBIT: The Caucus of Women Legislators and Crittenton Women’s Union devise to co-host an eventuality highlighting a struggles faced by low-income women to teach legislators and stakeholders. The eventuality will also prominence an exhibit, that facilities 5 women who participated in a singular discourse project, called “Close to Home: Reflections on Poverty, Perseverance, and Promise.” Rep. Gloria Fox and Sen. Anne Gobi devise to attend, along with author Michael Patrick MacDonald and a 5 women whose memoirs will be on display. The vaunt itself will be on arrangement in Doric Hall, Monday to Friday during State House Hours. (Wednesday, 1:30 p.m., Nurses Hall)
BAKER AT TOP OF THE MARKET: Gov. Charlie Baker speaks during Top of a Market. (Wednesday, 4 p.m., Four Seasons, 200 Boylston Street, Boston)Press: Open
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2015
SENATE INFORMAL: Both branches devise to accommodate in spontaneous sessions. (Thursday, 11 a.m., Senate Chamber)
CNN’S KING AND WALSH DISCUSS MAYOR’S YEAR ONE: Boston Mayor Martin Walsh sits down with CNN match and Dorchester internal John King during a JFK Library. Walsh will simulate on his initial year in bureau as a initial new mayor in a City of Boston in over 20 years. Highlights of Walsh’s initial year enclosed his impasse in a state’s casino sweepstakes, his prolonged hunt for a propagandize superintendent, his support for a Boston 2024 summer Olympics bid, and his government of sleet emergencies. (Thursday, 6 p.m., John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Columbia Point, Dorchester)
ROSENBERG IN HOLYOKE: Senate President Stanley Rosenberg speaks during a Holyoke Chamber of Commerce event. (Thursday, 11:30 a.m., Delaney House Log Cabin, 500 Easthampton Rd, Holyoke)
ROSENBERG AND TARR ON NECN: Senate President Stanley Rosenberg appears on NECN’s Broadside alongside Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr. (Thursday, 6 p.m., 160 Wells Avenue, Newton)
POLITO AT FUNDRAISER FOR MASSGOP CHAIR: Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito headlines a re-election kickoff of Quincy City Councilor Kirsten Hughes, who is also chair of a Massachusetts Republican Party. (Thursday, 6 p.m., Common Market Restaurant, 97 Willard St., Quincy)
HEALTH POLICY COMMISSION: The Health Policy Commission will horde a open contention Thursday on a HPC’s due law stemming from a new law ruling helper staffing ratios in ICUs. The due law peculiarity measures due in tie with a law will be open for open criticism by Apr 6. (Thursday, 12 p.m., Worcester State University, Student Center, Blue Lounge)
COAKLEY, HAGAN AND OTHER HARVARD FELLOWS MEET WITH ROSENBERG: Senate President Stanley Rosenberg meets with Harvard Resident Fellows in his office. The stream category of fellows includes former Attorney General Martha Coakley, former North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan, former New York City Councillor and claimant for mayor Christine Quinn, former emissary executive executive of a National Republican Senatorial Committee Matt Lira, TIME match Jay Newton-Small and domestic satirist Bassem Youssef. (CLOSED PRESS) (Thursday, 2 p.m. Senate President’s office)
LIBRARY BOARD: The Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners will accept a news from Chairman Gregory Shesko and Director Dianne Carty, and cruise a mercantile 2015 check rider for Massachusetts Center for a Book and cruise a ask from Woburn Public Library for an prolongation to endorse internal appropriation and accept a extend award. (Thursday, 10 a.m., 98 North Washington St., Boston)
OPIOID CRISIS WORKING GROUP: Gov. Baker’s 17-member Opioid Crisis Working Group binds a listening eventuality to accumulate feedback and ideas. The sessions are dictated to cap in a statewide plan to fight soporific obsession submitted in May. Gov. Baker skeleton to attend. (Thursday, 3 p.m., Gardner Auditorium, State House)
BAKER AT AUTISM DAY: Gov. Charlie Baker attends Autism Awareness and Acceptance Day. (Thursday, 10:30 a.m., Great Hall)
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK BREAKFAST: Santander Bank and a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce will horde an mercantile opinion breakfast. The assembly will attend in an interactive, real-time business meridian survey, after that a row of business leaders will offer discernment into a pivotal issues and hurdles that face a Bay State. Paul Guzzi, President and CEO of a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce; Roman Blanco, CEO of Santander Bank; Mike Lee, Managing Director of Corporate Real Estate Banking, Santander Bank; and Michael Goodman, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Executive Director of a Public Policy Center during UMass Dartmouth and Editor of MassBenchmarks will all be attending. The row contention will underline Pat Hughes, President and CEO of Fallon Health; Chris Anderson, President of Massachusetts High Tech Council; Dr. Zorica Pantic, President of a Wentworth Institute of Technology; and Tom Glynn, CEO of a Massachusetts Port Authority. (Thursday, 7:55 a.m., Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel, Harbor Ballroom, 425 Summer St.)
SIMMONS LEADERSHIP LUNCH: State Auditor Suzanne Bump attends a Simmons College Leadership Conference luncheon. (Thursday, 12:15 p.m., Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Blvd., Boston)
FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2015
ASH TALKS TO CHAMBER EXECS: Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash offers remarks during a Mass. Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives. (Friday, 8:30 a.m., Embassy Suites, 123 Boston Post Road, Marlborough)
ROSENBERG IN GREENFIELD: Senate President Stanley Rosenberg attends an open residence kickoff eventuality for a Greenfield District Court Service Center along with Trial Court Chief Justice Paula Carey and Court Administrator Harry Spence. The new core aims to move Franklin County residents improved entrance to rapist probity services. (Friday, 9 a.m., Franklin County Courthouse Greenfield Corporate Center, 101 Munson Street, Greenfield)
CLEAN ENERGY TECH: Department of Energy Resources Acting Commissioner Burgess will pronounce during a Advanced Clean Energy Technologies for College Campuses Seminar and Expo, an eventuality for state universities and village colleges to try purify appetite technologies that revoke appetite costs and hothouse gas emissions. (Friday, 8:30 a.m., Quinsigamond Community College Worcester)
MASS. MARKETING PARTNERSHIP: The Massachusetts Marketing Partnership, that includes agencies traffic with film and sports, selling and ubiquitous trade and investment, skeleton a residence meeting. Housing and Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash chairs a board. (Friday, 10 a.m., 10 Park Plaza, Suite 4510, Boston)