Eliminating the need of medical re-authorization for those with life-long metabolic disorders – Current laws require that those with lifelong metabolic disorders – like Representative Canavan’s grands...
Over the past three years, Christine has partnered with state and local leaders, her constituents and residents from across the region to engage in a truly grassroots effort to continue fighting the proposed, fossil-fueled...
Establishing a Patient Care Commission – This newly-filed proposal of Representative Canavan would establish a special, temporary Patient Care Commission within the Commonwealth. The Commission would be tasked with conducting a ...
Increasing the personal needs allowance (PNA) – Currently, nursing home residents are allowed to keep $72.80 per month out of their income to pay for personal needs (i.e. telephone, cable, hairdresser, clothes, grandkids’ b...
Expanding the historic rehabilitation tax credit within Gateway Cities – At an October 2008 meeting of the legislature’s Gateway Cities Caucus held in Brockton and hosted by Representative Canavan and her colleagues in t...
Last night, along with Representative Michael Brady and local healthcare workers and advocates, I was pleased to kick-start the ‘Campaign for Better Care’ at the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center at a forum organized by Health Car...
BROCKTON - In the driveway of a foreclosed, single-family home on Noyes Avenue on Saturday, Gov. Deval Patrick and state and city officials signed a bill into law designed to keep Massachusetts homeowners in their homes longer and protect renters who live...
EASTON — Alexandra Gustafson never had the chance to say goodbye to her friend, 16-year-old Ryan Orcutt of Brockton, who died in a motorcycle accident last year.
Instead, she made him a promise.
In the weeks and months following his death, Gustafs...
WEST BRIDGEWATER — State building authority officials were poised to vote today in favor of finding “cost-effective” solutions to building problems at the middle-senior high school.
The vote by the Massachusetts School Building Authority board in...
Proud of my record of fighting for working families and partnering with local first responders to bolster public safety initiatives, today I proudly announced that I've been endorsed for re-election by Brockton Firefighters Local 144.
Continuing my commitment of working to ensure that much-needed state funding continues to be passed down to our cities, towns and local school districts, I proudly joined with my colleagues last night in an effort to restore $234 million to the state’s ...
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