The week ahead could bring the final word on tax relief details, whether Lottery sales will go online, and how to spend a billion new tax dollars on transportation and education. Or the Legislature could just continue processing local alcohol license bills, congratulatory resolutions, and welcoming summertime guests to their air-conditioned chambers. Another late annual budget means it's hurry-up-and-wait time again in July. Gov. Maura Healey hasn't been around much since summer rolled in -- a week in Ireland followed by a week in Rhode Island -- and she is scheduled to be out of state again in the coming days while she waits with everyone else for six lawmakers meeting privately, who are guided by House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka, to agree on an overdue state budget.
ALOR GAJAH: An army major claimed trial at the Ayer Kerod Sessions Court here today to five charges of submitting false claims involving maintenance work and non-existent raw material supplies wor...