Deputy Treasurer Sarah Kim has been appointed to function the interim chairwoman of the Cannabis Control Commission whereas Treasurer Deb Goldberg’s staff searches for a extra everlasting alternative for inaugural chairman Steven Hoffman.
Kim, who oversees the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission, serves as basic counsel to the Treasury and was concerned within the preliminary efforts to implement the 2016 voter regulation that legalized marijuana.
She “has extensive leadership experience and knowledge about the standards, goals, and operations of the Commission, as well as perspective on necessary steps as we progress in the implementation of good policies in Massachusetts,” Goldberg mentioned.
Kim has been sworn in and is predicted to chair the CCC’s assembly scheduled for Thursday.
Boston-area wages up 6.1%
Wages and salaries within the Boston space rose at their quickest yearly clip since 2006, rising 6.1% for the 12-month interval ending in March, the federal authorities reported Monday.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics mentioned wages and salaries nationwide elevated 5% in the identical interval. The largest improve in wages and salaries, at 6.4%, was within the Phoenix space.
Compensation prices for personal business staff elevated 5.6% for the 12 months ending in March within the mixed statistical space that features the Greater Boston space, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire, the bureau mentioned, in comparison with an annual achieve of two.9% in compensation prices reported one 12 months in the past.
Nationally, whole compensation prices rose 4.8% for the 12 months ending in March. During the identical 12-month interval, inflation grew at a fee of 8.5, the biggest 12-month advance since December 1981, based on BLS.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”