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Amtrak announced today it has started operating out of Springfield’s historic Union Station. Two years after Union Station reopened following a $95 million restoration, Amtrak has opened a ticket office in the main concourse and closed a track-level waiting room.  The passenger rail company joins the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority and intercity bus services that moved in and… Read more »

SPRINGFIELD — Amtrak showed off its new ticket window Monday and checked luggage drop-off on the first floor of Union Station. The counter moves Amtrak customer service to the main concourse with the Peter Pan and Greyhound counters and vending machines selling tickets for both CTrail’s Hartford Line and its connecting Metro-North service. Amtrak is now just down the corridor… Read more »

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – The Valley Blue Sox celebrated their home opener Saturday, with Congressman Richard Neal throwing out the ceremonial first pitch. The Holyoke-based collegiate summer baseball team returns after winning back-to-back league champions. Saturday night, hundreds of Blue Sox fans made their way to MacKenzie Stadium in Holyoke to to see their team beat the… Read more »

SPRINGFIELD — Employers will gather Monday at Springfield Technical Community College to talk about preparing potential applicants for jobs that businesses are having trouble filling. U.S. Rep. Richard Neal is the keynote speaker. The event is organized by the college and the Western Massachusetts chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association, a local trade… Read more »

The fight by House Democrats to obtain President Donald Trump’s tax returns will go to the courts in a lawsuit soon-to-be filed by the House Counsel’s office. U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Massachusetts, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee made the revelation at the annual meeting of the Western Massachusetts Economic Development Council in Springfield on… Read more »

The chairman of a key congressional committee warned Thursday that he would take steps to block new tariffs against Mexico if President Donald Trump follows through on his plans to impose the duties early next week. “The president’s proposed tariffs would hurt American workers, businesses and consumers,” said Rep. Richard Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat who chairs the… Read more »

SPRINGFIELD — U.S. Rep. Richard Neal pushed back Thursday on President Donald J. Trump’s proposed tariffs on Mexican imports, calling the plan an “overreach” and vowing to introduce a resolution to stop the tariffs. “The President’s proposed tariffs would hurt American workers, businesses, and consumers," Neal said in a statement. "Commandeering U.S.… Read more »

‘You just kept going forward and hoped you didn’t get killed,” Earl D. Clark Jr., of West Springfield, remembered. “You’d see people going down around you. Mines and everything else were going off. ... You didn’t just walk up that beach. ... You had no place to hide. ... I was one of the lucky ones.” Clark went from the hold of a landing craft… Read more »

LUDLOW, Mass. (WWLP) – Congressman Richard Neal was in Ludlow Wednesday to announce a three million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to help upgrade Riverside Road. The money will help rebuild and extend Riverside Road, which is the main road to the more than 100-year-old Ludlow Mills complex. Select Board chairman, Derek DeBarge told 22News, the upgrade will… Read more »

BOSTON – If state government is going to approve the three-month delay in payroll taxes needed to fund the new paid family and medical leave program that advocacy and business groups have pushed for, it is likely going to happen this week, the governor said Monday. The fledgling Department of Family and Medical Leave plans to begin collecting a 0.63 percent payroll tax from… Read more »