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OFF TRACK: Updated MBTA financial projections rolled out last week suggest the agency is once again careening toward a shortfall in the next 18-plus months. Chris Lisinski has more. |
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CARE CONCERNS: President Donald Trump’s moves to change the Continuum of Care program is impacting local administrators of the program across Massachusetts. Hallie Claflin reports on how this has threatened millions of dollars in funding for permanent housing and thousands of beds for the chronically homeless. |
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A year ago, when Donald Trump was on the verge of returning to the White House for a second term, he was barely a shadow in Gov. Maura Healey’s annual address. She never said the name “Trump,” and the only mention of a US president was a passing reference to John F. Kennedy’s 1961 speech in the same room where she stood. |
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Healey on Thursday did not hesitate to bash Trump in her latest State of the Commonwealth speech. Life here is too expensive, she said, and the president is “making it worse.” Healey said Trump “throws tantrums like a two-year-old,” and she slammed the aggressive Immigration and Customs Enforcement campaigns unfolding across the country as failing to make America safer. |
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“In this moment, my job as governor is to provide what the federal government isn’t: stability, security, and how about a little common sense?” she said, looking out over the assembled crowd of deputies, lawmakers, labor leaders, and other guests who filled the House chamber. |
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Two big things have changed to fuel Healey’s more assertive, prosecutorial tone this time around. Massachusetts has now experienced a full year of impacts from Trump 2.0, from massive federal funding cuts to food aid delays to business-spooking tariffs. It’s also an election year for Healey, who is hoping to secure another term in large part by contrasting herself with a president who remains deeply unpopular with Massachusetts Democrats and independents. |
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DARK MONEY: More than $11 million has already changed hands to advance or oppose a potentially record-breaking field of ballot questions that voters could decide in November, according to newly filed campaign finance reports, including a significant injection by a national dark-money group that opposes legal drug use. Chris Lisinski has more. |
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OPINION: Gov. Maura Healey made two splashy health care policy announcements last week. The question now is whether there is steak behind the sizzle. State commissions have a history of talking about health care costs, but not doing much about them, writes Paul Hattis, a senior fellow at the Lown Institute. |
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ENERGY: A recent report, released quietly by Vineyard Wind, shows the offshore wind project now paused by the Trump administration has employed more than 3,700 full-time and part-time workers since development began a decade ago. (The New Bedford Light) |
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COURTS: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to hear the case over two controversial statues depicting Catholic saints for Quincy's new public safety building. (The Patriot Ledger – paywall) |
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WEATHER: Facing down a massive winter storm, Worcester is hoping to shake the criticisms of its 2025 plowing performance with better snow removal and de-icing. (MassLive – paywall) |
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POLITICS: A state commission on Thursday dismissed an objection to the ballot question measure that would give voters an opportunity to repeal recreational marijuana legalization. (State House News Service – paywall) |
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OPEN MEETINGS: The Falmouth School Committee will focus on corrective steps after the attorney general concluded the committee mishandled closed-door deliberations over Superintendent Lori Duerr's contract, violating the state Open Meetings law. (The Cape Cod Times – paywall) |
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