STOUGHTON – Senator Brian A. Joyce is encouraging residents to stop by the Stoughton High School, 232 Pearl St. in Stoughton on Saturday, Nov. 22 from noon to 5 p.m. for another hiring fair that Amazon is holding for their new sorting warehouse in Stoughton. Amazon will be making some…
Read MoreBOSTON – Senator Brian A. Joyce has announced that the 73rd Citizens’ Legislative Seminar (CLS) will be held this fall on Tuesday, Oct. 14 and Wednesday, Oct. 15 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the State House. “This program gives residents of the Commonwealth a great opportunity to participate…
Read MoreBOSTON – The Senate has passed a four-year, $1.7 billion Environmental Bond Bill with multiple initiatives by Senator Brian A. Joyce. The legislation will invest in tree plantings to promote energy savings and stormwater mitigation, reduce energy consumption at state sites to save taxpayer money, support Massachusetts’ Green Bonds Program,…
Read MoreBOSTON – The Massachusetts Senate has passed Senator Brian A. Joyce’s Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) reform bill that could create an estimated 10,000 jobs in the Commonwealth and reduce carbon emissions at no cost to the taxpayer. The legislation would allow low-cost, off balance sheet financing to industrial and…
Read MoreBOSTON – The Senate Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets, chaired by Senator Brian A. Joyce, has approved out a five-year, $1.7 billion Environmental Bond Bill that supports both ancient resources and cutting edge technology. The bill makes an investment in one of the most basic resources to…
Read MoreBOSTON – Senator Brian A. Joyce joined his colleagues in the Massachusetts Senate to pass a jobs bill containing $63 million for various economic development initiatives including enhancing workforce training program to get residents back to work, supporting entrepreneurship in the Commonwealth, redeveloping polluted sites for redevelopment, changing the way…
Read MoreBOSTON – The Massachusetts Legislature has come to an agreement on the Fiscal Year 2015 budget, which contains many of Senator Brian A. Joyce’s priorities, including tracking down and eliminating government overlaps and redundancy; paying down pension liabilities to save taxpayer money in the future; and supporting early childhood education,…
Read MoreBOSTON – The Massachusetts Senate has reported the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) expansion legislation has kept several provisions authored by Senator Brian A. Joyce when the bill came the through the Senate Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets chaired by Joyce. These include decreasing the proposed…
Read MoreBOSTON – The Senate Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets chaired by Senator Brian A. Joyce has reported the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC) expansion legislation with several significant changes including decreasing the proposed borrowing amount by $110 million, cutting the terms of the bonds to save…
Read MoreBOSTON – The Massachusetts Senate passed a balanced budget that includes many priorities laid out by Senator Brian A. Joyce including; tracking down and eliminating government overlaps and redundancy, paying down pension liabilities to save taxpayer money in the future, and supporting early childhood education, mental health and substance abuse…
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