Massachusetts pension fund highest ever
Massachusetts pension funds’ net asset is the highest ever after increasing by $7.9 billion in 2013, according to an announcement by Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Tuesday. “PRIM’s outstanding performance in 2013 will enable us to reduce our unfunded pension liability and is likely to increase the attractiveness of the Commonwealth’s bonds to investors,” said Mass. […]
Mass. officials agree with Pres. Obama’s future NSA reforms
Massachusetts officials agree with the reforms U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Friday, which would end the National Security Agency’s authoritative hold over databases of telephone records held by millions of Americans, as an improvement but only one of many that are needed. While Obama’s reform plans will end the NSA’s warrantless telephone record monitoring, a […]
Bill to restrict surveillance drones is sent to hearing in Mass.
A bill to restrict drone use in Massachusetts will go to a Transportation Committee hearing on Feb. 5, after being postponed from Wednesday to due to inclement weather. The Drone Privacy Act, introduced by Mass. Sen. Robert Hedlund and Mass. Rep. Colleen Garry, will require police officers to have warrants before using drones, except for emergency situations. “We […]
Gov. Patrick invests $12 million in summer job program for at-risk youth
Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick announced Saturday $12 million would be devoted to YouthWorks, a program that provides opportunities for teenagers to obtain state-subsidized jobs to prevent destructive behavior. The YouthWorks Summer Jobs Program was added to the 2015 fiscal year state budget and is overseen by Commonwealth Corporation department. The program targets at-risk youth ages 14-21 and […]
Researcher discovers drug to erase traumatic memories
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher Li-Huei Tsai published a study Thursday in the journal Cell about an experimental drug that erases traumatic memories in mice. Tsai and her researchers concluded that one dose of the drug, called a histone deacetylase 2 inhibitor, allowed the mice to forget memories from the distant past that had caused fear or […]
