News from Senate Majority Leader Fred Berry’s office is that the conference committee may finish work on an ethics reform bill later today or sometime tomorrow.
With pension reform now law, and transportation reform very much on the front burner this week, it’s looking like the Legislature may act on its reform agenda before approving new tax measures after all.
If they get rid of those “hack holidays” (Evacuation Day, Bunker Hill Day), too, the public will have to take the Democratic leadership’s “reform before revenues” pledge seriously.
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Nelson Benton is editorial page editor of The Salem News. Over the past four decades he has covered all the cities and towns of the North Shore, as well as the Statehouse. His political column appears every Friday on the Opinion page. Categories
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