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Massachusetts legislature ended formal sessions for the year with unfinished business

Formal sessions of the Massachusetts House and Senate adjourned on Nov 15, 2023.

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Formal sessions of the Massachusetts House and Senate have adjourned for the year.

There is still unfinished business as members of the two chambers have been unable to strike a deal on a $2.8 billion supplemental budget.

With the legislature scheduled to return in January to pick up the second half of the two-year legislative session, WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Doug Howgate, President of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation about what was accomplished on Beacon Hill this year.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.