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Massachusetts seeking donations as it braces for lapse in federal food aid impacting over 1,000,000 residents
BY ALISON KUZNITZ & SAM DRYSDALE OCT. 24, 2025…..With 1 million Bay Staters expected to lose public food assistance benefits next week due…
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Advocates Rally for Safe Communities Act as ICE Raids Stoke Fear in Massachusetts
BY SAM DRYSDALE With enforcement of immigration laws surging in Massachusetts, a coalition of advocates rallied Wednesday and attached new…
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Healey Climbs into Top 10 of National Governor Popularity Rankings
BY COLIN A. YOUNG Gov. Maura Healey broke into the top 10 of Morning Consult’s quarterly ranking of the nation’s…
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Massachusetts Auditor DiZoglio publicly challenges AG over audit of Legislature, “sue me”
BY SAM DRYSDALE STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, OCT. 15, 2025…..Nearly a year after voters approved a ballot measure to explicitly allow…
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Some Massachusetts benefit recipients getting a boost in compensation; here’s how much
BY COLIN A. YOUNG OCT. 13, 2025-BOSTON…….Some state benefit recipients are getting a boost thanks to an increase in the…
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Massachusetts Governor Healey pledges “zero tolerance” after illegal street meetups in Boston, Fall River, Randolph, other parts of the state
BY SAM DRYSDALE STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, OCT. 8, 2025…..Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday issued a stern warning to participants in…
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Massachusetts Senate President Spilka: “Trump and the Congressional Republicans are working against us.”
BY MICHAEL NORTON The state can’t make up for all of the federal government spending cuts that are occurring, according…
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Massachusetts tax collections missed Healey administration’s mark last month but were up from a year earlier
BY COLIN A. YOUNG Tax collections missed the Healey administration’s mark last month but were up from a year earlier,…
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New federal law will drop Massachusetts tax take by $650 million, Department of Revenue chief says
BY COLIN A. YOUNG & ALISON KUZNITZ SEPT. 30, 2025…..Three months into the fiscal year and two weeks out from a…
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FBI Boston warns as uptick in scams in Massachusetts has caused “devastating financial losses”
BY COLIN A. YOUNG There’s been an uptick in reports of elderly Bay Staters being scammed into “devastating financial losses”…
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