Governor Charlie Baker

Gov. Charlie Baker will spend the first half of this week in Colorado meeting with other Republican governors focused on upcoming elections. After signing the overdue annual state budget on Friday, Baker is traveling Sunday to Aspen for meetings of the Republican Governors Association, with plans to return to Massachusetts on Wednesday afternoon, according to an aide. Baker hasn’t...

The number of candidates running for Massachusetts governor is growing, but Gov. Charlie Baker has not yet said if he will be one of them.

While many are getting vaccinated and cases are going down in the state, the governor stressed that everyone needs to remain vigilant.

The governor said he wanted to wait until he was eligible to get the shot.

Right now, the state is administering about 250,000 doses of vaccine per week.

Massachusetts Expands Vaccine Eligibility

Gov. Charlie Baker is being urged by a coalition of community activists and medical professionals to give the state’s Black and immigrant communities priority access to COVID-19 vaccines. “Our Black and Latino neighbors have been the hardest hit by the pandemic, and we have failed to implement sufficient measures to protect them,” said a letter signed by more than 250…

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and his top education advisors urged schools Tuesday not to overreact to the rise in COVID-19 cases this fall, telling even those districts in communities deemed to be at the highest risk for transmission of the virus to stick with in-person learning unless there is evidence of spread within the school system. Education Secretary Jim Peyser…

As Mass. residents anticipate the continuation of the state’s reopening, Gov. Charlie Baker talks about progress in the Commonwealth.

Vice President Mike Pence met briefly Saturday with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to discuss the response to the coronavirus pandemic while he visited the famous island getaway of Nantucket to headline a fundraiser for President Donald Trump administration’s reelection campaign.

MIke Pence, who heads the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force, praised Gov. Charlie Baker’s efforts to control the spread of COVID-19 in Massachusetts, which has among the highest death tolls from the virus in the nation, at more than 8,200.

Vice President Mike Pence met briefly Saturday with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker to discuss the response to the coronavirus pandemic while he visited the famous island getaway of Nantucket to headline a $25,000-ticket fundraiser for President Donald Trump administration’s reelection campaign. Pence, who heads the White House’s Coronavirus Task Force, praised Baker’s efforts to control the spread of COVID-19...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has issued a new mandatory travel order effective Aug. 1 requiring all visitors and residents returning to the state from high-risk areas, including students, to quarantine for 14 days or produce a recent negative COVID-19 test result.

Monday, the office of State Sen. Diana Dizoglio announced that Gov. Charlie Baker had approved the legislation.

Massachusetts’ tax-free weekend will take place August 29 to 30, the Baker administration announced Tuesday. This will be the second sales tax holiday held under the new law that was signed by Governor Baker in 2018 establishing the weekend as an annual occurrence. “The annual sales tax holiday is an opportunity for us to support small businesses and consumers, and…

With the number of newly reported cases of coronavirus falling into the double digits, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday that he’ll likely make a call by the end of the week whether restaurants should be allowed to open for indoor dining and whether other high-contact businesses like nail salons should be permitted to open. The Department of Public...

Gov. Charlie Baker suggested Monday that he will announce by the end of this week when the second half of the current reopening phase will begin, and a prominent member of his party suggested over the weekend that the public health data supports an acceleration of the state’s economic revival. Baker said a little more than a week ago...

Gov. Charlie Baker announces 50 new pop-up testing sites in Massachusetts, urging anyone who attended a protest or large gathering to get tested immediately.

Parts of Moody Street in Waltham, Massachusetts will be temporarily closed starting Monday to help restaurants open for outdoor dining as the state enters Phase 2 of is reopening process. Section of the street — a popular destination for foodies — will be closed to all vehicular traffic as businesses begin to serve their customers with outdoor dining, the city…

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