BOSTON (SHNS) – A bill is expected next week from the Joint Committee on Public Service proposing reforms to the state’s 140-year-old civil service law that governs how jobs at police, fire, and other ...

From right, Commissioners Codi Plaisance and D. Scott Hughes, listen to testimony at a Louisiana State Civil Service Commission meeting on Feb. 5, 2025. (Photo: Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator) Gov.

In 1895, science fiction writer H.G. Wells introduced the world to the concept of time travel. Pick a time, he told his dinner guests in The Time Machine, and manipulate a lever in his machine: “this ...

With several Massachusetts municipalities opting out of the civil service and many more considering that route, something had to be done to update a system clearly out of step with the times. As of ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Richmond history professor Eric Yellin talked about the spoils system that existed before the formation of the modern day civil service ...