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Healey to address MMA with questions about approach to local aid

Gov. Maura Healey will speak to municipal leaders this morning at the Hynes Convention Center at the Massachusetts Municipal Association’s annual meeting and tradeshow. The event is often used by governors to announce funding levels for local aid, the Chapter 90 road and bridge program or some other municipal initiative like broadband to help mayors and town managers […]

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Healey’s partnership with business community under the microscope

There are inaugurations everywhere you look today. Three House members who – for varying reasons – missed last week’s ceremony will join their colleagues, and the four Constitutional officers not named Healey or Driscoll take their oaths. This is the easy part of Healey’s job. Swearing people into office. Showing up to support fellow Democrats and friends. But […]

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Cruz on an island after GOP losses in 2022

It’s MLK Day. But as the celebrations continue today after Friday’s unveiling of the “The Embrace” on Boston Common, the statue’s debut has been greeted by some pretty harsh coverage nationally. …Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz just won a sixth term as the top prosecutor on the South Shore, bucking a trend seen across Massachusetts where the GOP […]

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Immigrant advocates push Healey on emergency need for shelter

Thousands of migrants from Haiti and various South American countries have been arriving in Massachusetts in recent months, straining the capacity of the state’s shelter system to provide adequate temporary housing. One of the state’s leading immigrant advocacy groups is now urging new Gov. Maura Healey to pick up where former Gov. Charlie Baker left off and move […]

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New report labels child care system “complication and inefficient”

Children are expensive. Any parent will tell you that. But when raising children interferes with the ability to also work, the result can be damaging not just to families, but the state’s economy as well. A new report out today from the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundations estimates that inadequate access to affordable child care in Massachusetts costs workers in Massachusetts […]

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Baker spends big on parties, portrait

What would you do with hundreds of thousands of dollars to burn and no more campaigns to run? Throw a party, of course. The latest campaign finance filings show that former Gov. Charlie Baker and former Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito dropped $100,0000 (split evenly) in December on Coventures, Inc., the Boston-based event planning agency run by Dusty Rhodes. […]