“These are the most extreme cuts we’ve ever had to make to programs in our 25-year history,” says Lonnie Powers, MLAC’s executive director. “Some programs are going to lose up to 30 percent of their budgets. This is going to be devastating for low-income people who need legal help with problems threatening their housing, health [...]
Opponents of dog racing in Massachusetts are hailing a decision by the state’s highest court today that clears the way for a dog racing ban proposal to appear on the November ballot.
George Carney, who has owned the Raynham-Taunton dog track for the past 40 years, sued in March, challenging Attorney General Martha Coakley’s certification of [...]
The presiding judge in a lawsuit against the state of Massachusetts and the company that wants to build 130 wind turbines in Nantucket Sound dismissed the bulk of the suit this week.
Barnstable Superior Court Judge Robert Kane ruled in favor of Cape Wind Associates on most of the company’s requests to dismiss five complaints in [...]
