Representative Ann-Margaret Ferrante (D-Gloucester) voted last night to pass the FY 2015 House Budget. She was joined by all of her Democratic colleagues and 27 out of 29 Republicans. The House Budget is fiscally responsible as it reduces reliance on one time revenues, the stabilization fund, and accelerates payment on pension liabilities from 30 years…
The new role granted Gloucester-based Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante in co-chairing the State House’s Tech Hub Caucus should not only forge stronger ties between Massachusetts high tech companies and Gloucester’s O’Maley Innovation Middle School, as Ferrante hopes. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
State Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante of Gloucester hopes to use her new role of co-chairwoman of the Tech Hub Caucus to forge stronger ties between Massachusetts high tech companies and Gloucester’s O’Maley Innovation Middle School, hoping to boost education in areas such as computer science, computer engineering and code writing. Read more on the Gloucester Daily…
Addison Gilbert Hospital has been awarded $294,000 as part of the Community Hospital Acceleration, Revitalization and Transformation (CHART) grant program — a revenue stream once dubbed the “distressed hospital fund,” from which AGH’s parent company, Lahey Health, sought help for the local hospital last year. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Voters on Cape Ann and across the state of Massachusetts may not have to wait until 2016’s Election Day to cast their ballots if a bill backed by the Massachusetts House last week becomes reality. On a 141-10 vote, House lawmakers approved legislation authorizing early voting in presidential elections and online registration in Massachusetts — both…
In a visit to Gloucester schools Wednesday, state Secretary of Education Matthew Malone stopped by O’Maley Innovation Middle School, admiring the curriculum and speaking about “replicating” the O’Maley education model in more innovation schools he hopes will pop up across the state. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
State Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante has been appointed vice chairwoman of the Joint Economic Development Committee by House Speaker Robert DeLeo, the speaker announced Thursday. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
In crisis mode, angry and worried, as many as 40 parties — fishing industry plaintiffs and their attorneys from North Carolina to Maine — are scheduled to participate in a conference call Friday to discuss whether to appeal a federal judge’s decision upholding a radical reorganization of the groundfishery. Read more on the Gloucester Daily…
The state’s U.S. senators, and congressional representatives of Gloucester and New Bedford Thursday wrote to “implore” Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to make public the findings of a special master’s report on the most egregious cases of law enforcement misconduct against the fishing industry. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→
Forged in independence, laid low by regulatory constraints, America’s original fishing port told its story in many voices from many perspectives Tuesday, appealing to one arm of the U.S. Commerce Department for relief to help survive the harm done by another. Read more on the Gloucester Daily Times website→