An ambitious regional plan to slash vehicle emissions appears to be running out of gas as Connecticut became the 10th state back out of the controversial Transportation Climate Initiative.
BOSTON (AP) â Massachusetts lawmakers are weighing whether to take some of the voting changes adopted at the height of the pandemic â including the broad use of mail-in voting â and make them permanent.
The state took that step and others â including expanding the use of early voting and ballot drop boxes â to help diminish the pandemic health risk of voters crowding polling locations.
Many of those changes proved popular, leading to a push to write them into state law.
âThe pandemic is coming to an end and we have to think about whether we want to make some of these changes permanent,â said Democratic state Sen. Barry Finegold, co-chair of the Joint Committee on Election Laws.
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Gov. Charlie Baker said his Aug. 1 target to allow Massachusetts business to fully reopen after more than a year of pandemic restrictions is an "outside date," giving hope to small businesses that rely on the busy summer season.
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Massachusetts eased some coronavirus restrictions Monday, but that isn t enough for business groups, who point out Massachusetts is lagging behind states where there are higher rates of COVID-19 transmission and lower rates of vaccination. (Dave Copeland/Patch)
MASSACHUSETTS As of Tuesday, 25 states have fully reopened and lifted all the coronavirus restrictions that had been placed on businesses. Five more, including Rhode Island, plan to do so by the end of this month. Other states are targeting being fully reopening in June or July, with July 4 being the latest reopening date in all but one of the 15 states that have laid out a schedule.