Bob Salsberg, Author at Valley News

Health insurers Harvard Pilgrim, Tufts agree to merge

by Bob Salsberg Associated PressAugust 15, 2019

BOSTON — Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan, two of the region’s largest insurers, announced Wednesday they had reached a definitive agreement to form a single company that would serve nearly 2.4 million subscribers in New England.In a…

Warning signs are posted near a gate to the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, in Plymouth, Mass., Tuesday, May 28, 2019. The operators of the nuclear plant performed a simulated shutdown at a training facility several miles from the reactor Tuesday, in advance of the actual shutdown of the aging reactor planned for Friday, May 31. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Pilgrim’s shutdown ends nuclear power era in Mass.

by Bob Salsberg Associated PressMay 31, 2019

Mass. sues e-cigarette maker

by Bob Salsberg Associated PressMay 30, 2019

Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld gestures during a New England Council 'Politics & Eggs' breakfast in Bedford, N.H., Friday, Feb. 15, 2019. Weld announced he's creating a presidential exploratory committee for a run in the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Ex-Massachusetts Gov. Weld to challenge Trump for GOP nod

by Holly Ramer Associated Press, Steve Peoples Associated Press, and Bob Salsberg Associated PressFebruary 15, 2019

Mass. Employers See Pot Differently

by Bob Salsberg Associated PressNovember 25, 2018

Hundreds of customers, some of whom arrived as early as 3 a.m., waited for hours in line in the snow and rain to purchase adult-use marijuana at New England Treatment Access in Northampton on the first day of legal sales on Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. (Mark Mirko/Hartford Courant/TNS)

Hundreds Flock to Massachusetts As First East Coast Pot Shops Open

by Steven Senne Associated Press, and Bob Salsberg Associated PressNovember 22, 2018

Mass. Not as Blue as Many Think

by Bob Salsberg Associated PressNovember 18, 2018

Mass.: More Than 1,500 Opioid Deaths in 2018 So Far

by Bob Salsberg Associated PressNovember 17, 2018

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018, file photo, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a town hall-style gathering in Woburn, Ma. A DNA analysis done on Sen. Warren provides strong evidence she has Native American heritage. She provided her test results to The Boston Globe for a story published Monday. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Warren: DNA Test Shows Heritage

by Bob Salsberg Associated PressOctober 15, 2018

A woman kneels after placing flowers, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, at the scene where 20 people died as the result of a limousine crashing into a parked and unoccupied SUV at an intersection a day earlier, in Schoharie, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

Limousine Crash Kills 20 In New York

by Michael Hill Associated Press, and Bob Salsberg Associated PressOctober 8, 2018