By Tyler Bass on June 9, 2021
Incumbent Gloucester County Clerk of Circuit Court Cathy Dale, at a Republican party canvass held Monday, won the Republican nomination for the post in an election to be held in November. Dale became clerk last year after the retirement of Margaret Walker.
Dale outpolled Amy Pierce for the nomination. A release from Gloucester Republican chairman Ashley C. Chriscoe said that of 504 votes cast during the canvass, held at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 62.7 percent or 316 were for Dale and the remainder for Pierce.
“Thank you all for your amazing support,” said Dale, “the turnout yesterday was incredible and I am grateful for each of your votes.”
Lawmaker proposes more marine patrols to protect rare whales
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A Massachusetts state lawmaker wants to do more to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales from boat collisions and fishing gear entanglements by increasing marine patrols.
Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr added an amendment to the $47 billion state budget to earmark another $250,000 for the Massachusetts Environmental Police to conduct more whale patrols in state waters, The Salem News reported Tuesday.
The additional funding would provide for an “intensive surveillance process” to monitor whales, prevent interactions with vessels and remove abandoned “ghost fishing gear” that causes entanglements, the Gloucester Republican said.
By State House News Service
A little over a month after Gov. Charlie Baker signed a law shoring up the unemployment system and reducing the premium increases facing employers to fund jobless benefits, lawmakers and administration officials are once again looking for a way to provide businesses relief from spiking costs.
The law Baker signed on April 1 authorized $7 billion in borrowing to stabilize the state s unemployment insurance trust fund, strained by a flood of joblessness during the COVID-19 pandemic, and limited the average rate hike to 18.5 percent instead of the nearly 60 percent increase employers would otherwise have to pay.
Some businesses soon found they were nonetheless facing dramatic increases in their unemployment tax payments, as one component of their UI costs, known as the solvency assessments, jumped from a rate of 0.58 percent in 2020 to 9.23 percent in 2021, surprising many.
Holdup on Massachusetts unemployment insurance relief quest appears to be federal guidance
Updated May 06, 2021;
By Katie Lannan | State House News Service
A little over a month after Gov. Charlie Baker signed a law shoring up the unemployment system and reducing the premium increases facing employers to fund jobless benefits, lawmakers and administration officials are once again looking for a way to provide businesses relief from spiking costs.
The law Baker signed on April 1 authorized $7 billion in borrowing to stabilize the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund, strained by a flood of joblessness during the COVID-19 pandemic, and limited the average rate hike to 18.5 percent instead of the nearly 60 percent increase employers would otherwise have to pay.