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OPINION: Public water systems in 99 cities and towns across the Commonwealth have exceeded the state’s legal limit for PFAS. By passing “An Act to Protect Massachusetts Public Health from PFAS,” Massachusetts can join every other state in New England in phasing out these toxic “forever chemicals,” argues Connor Read, Westwood’s town administrator. |
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THE CODCAST: Child care costs in Massachusetts continue to top national rankings. Meanwhile, New Mexico has made child care essentially cost-free. Jacob Vigil, chief legislative officer of the advocacy group New Mexico Voices for Children, joins Chris Lisinski on The Codcast to discuss how his state got there and what lessons the Commonwealth could learn. |
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GOVERNMENT: Massachusetts could be on the hook to cover additional costs of the federal food and nutrition assistance program SNAP. It’s part of new penalties associated with exceeding the federal threshold for error rate. In fiscal year 2025, the Bay State registered a 12.5 percent error rate for SNAP benefits, largely due to overpayments. Michael P. Norton of State House News has more. |
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| | | By Anastasiia Boltkova, Hayes Botnick, Quyen Nguyen, and Ying Niu |
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On a weekday morning in Boston’s Longwood Medical Area, patients hurry between hospital buildings for appointments. Parents push strollers toward Boston Children’s Hospital. Doctors and nurses move quickly as ambulances arrive outside the emergency department. At other hospitals blocks away, there are cancer patients shuttling to their doctors and patients with respiratory problems, including asthma, who are especially vulnerable to the effects of pollution. |
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Within sight of the hospital, another structure rises above the neighborhood, smoke billowing from its massive chimney. The Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) supplies electricity, steam, and chilled water to Children’s and many of the hospitals and research institutions in Longwood, where doctors care for thousands of patients each day, treating them for everything from cancer and heart disease to allergies and respiratory illness. |
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The plant rarely appears in conversations about public health, but it’s a key reason why many hospitals in Boston — powered in part by the fossil-fuel-driven MATEP — are also among the city’s largest sources of greenhouse-gas emissions, contributing significantly to the pollution that is closely linked with asthma, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, and even dementia. |
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Regina LaRocque, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School who researches the effect of climate change on human health, said the implications of fossil fuel use are not in question. “As doctors and health professionals, our primary responsibility is to do no harm,” she said. “But what often gets overlooked is that the operations of our institutions can actually cause harm. Hospitals and health care systems have a footprint. That includes pollution and climate impacts.” |
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HOUSING INACTION: Lawmakers are running out of time to advance major legislation for the 2025-2026 term, and so far, Beacon Hill’s response to a statewide housing crisis has been mostly small-bore – or touting the bigger swings taken in prior sessions. Jennifer Smith unpacks what’s in play. |
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STATE BUDGET: Gov. Maura Healey now has on her desk a $63.4 billion state budget for the fiscal year that began July 1, a measure that grows spending by a more modest 3.9 percent compared to prior cycles. Colin A. Young details the package for State House News Service. |
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OPINION: The Healey administration should reject a federal education tax credit program that has its roots in Project 2025 and could undermine public education, argues Jessica Tang, president of the Massachusetts chapter of the American Federation of Teachers. |
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| Scammers are getting smarter—and Bay Staters are paying the price. Criminals are using cryptocurrency ATMs to commit fraud, stealing people's retirement savings and costing Bay Staters millions of dollars a year. It’s time to crack down. Pass a ban on crypto ATMs to prevent scams and protect Bay Staters hard-earned money. Learn more at aarp.org/ma |
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TRANSPORTATION: Democratic House leaders included a suite of proposed rules to regulate e-bikes, mopeds, and scooters in Massachusetts in an economic development package released Monday. The e-bike language is similar to a bill Gov. Healey proposed in May to create a tiered system for where and how these vehicles can operate. (The Boston Globe – paywall) |
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HEALTH: The Massachusetts Nurses Association said more than 4,000 registered nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital plan a one-day strike beginning at 7 a.m. Wednesday, while about 450 Mass General Brigham home care clinicians plan a seven-day strike beginning at 8 a.m. Wednesday. (GBH News) |
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ENVIRONMENT: For 141 years, the Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center south of Boston has recorded the date when their first wild blueberry ripens. Their decades of data provide a unique picture of the effects of a warming climate, and its impact on the New England fruit. (WBUR) |
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HEALTH: New legislation moving through Beacon Hill would authorize the state to take the Norwood Hospital property by eminent domain. The move is intended as a step toward finishing hospital construction to reopen the location and restore care to the region. Construction on the hospital, which closed in 2020 following catastrophic flooding, has been stalled since 2024 following the bankruptcy saga at Steward Health Care. (State House News via WBUR) |
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HOUSING: A Falmouth resident and member of the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates has introduced a home-rule petition that would let the 15 towns on Cape Cod adopt a local surcharge on high-value homes that sit empty for most of the year. (MASSter List – paywall) |
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