Economists, budget analysts and Baker administration officials painted different pictures Tuesday of Massachusetts’s capital budget and whether the state is investing enough in its infrastructure. The House Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets called Tuesday’s hearing and Chairman Rep. Antonio Cabral of New Bedford asked those who testified to address the following qu…

Eversource Energy is moving into the offshore wind energy picture in Massachusetts. In January 2015, the company’s predecessor, Northeast Utilities, was one of two utilities that terminated their power purchase agreements with Cape Wind, an energy project planned for Nantucket Sound that has never gotten off the seafloor due to financing and legal challenges and […]

A second former law partner of former House Speaker Thomas Finneran is in line for a judgeship. Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday selected former Boston City Councilor James Byrne for a Chelsea District Court judgeship. Byrne, the founding partner of Byrne and Anderson LLP, served five terms on the council from 1984 until 1994, and […]