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Massachusetts Slashes Emergency Shelter Budget by Over 60% as Reforms and Declining Caseloads Ease Crisis
By Ella Adams After two years of spending about $1 billion annually on an overburdened emergency family shelter system, top…
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Massachusetts home prices up 3.4% to $600,000
By Colin A. Young Fewer single-family homes were sold in Massachusetts last month compared to a year prior, but real…
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Massachusetts House Democrats Thwart Republican Bid to Ban Transgender Athletes
By Sam Drysdale House Democrats used a procedural maneuver on Wednesday that essentially put on ice a freshman Republican’s push…
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Hospital chief: Massachusetts health care workers assaulted every 36 minutes
By Sam Drysdale Bills aimed at cracking down on escalating assaults on health care workers have languished in the Legislature…
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Tariffs, Market Turmoil, and Tax Uncertainty Threaten Massachusetts Budget
By Chris Lisinski, Michael P. Norton Economic uncertainty deepened Monday as stock markets continued their multi-day, tariff-fueled decline, and the House…
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WIC recipients may now order groceries online at Massachusett Walmarts
More than 125,000 Massachusetts residents receiving public nutrition benefits can now order groceries online through a pilot program, the Department…
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Massachusetts Democrats use hearing to continue delay of 72% voter approve legislative audit
By Sam Drysdale Constitutional experts invited by Senate Democrats to testify Wednesday said that allowing a voter-approved audit of their…
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President Trump terminated $106 million in Massachusetts K-12 education grants
By Michael P. Norton The Trump administration on Friday terminated $106 million in K-12 education grants for Massachusetts, the Healey…
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Governor Healey: Massachusetts immigration enforcement approach “is working”, Trump has not been good to his word
Colin A. Young The detention of Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, the Turkish woman taken from a Somerville sidewalk by…
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Wholesale power prices in New England rose 300% in February
By Michael P. Norton Natural gas was used to generate 55% of the power produced in 2024 by New England’s…
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