BY SAM DRYSDALE With enforcement of immigration laws surging in Massachusetts, a coalition of advocates rallied Wednesday and attached new urgency to the call for lawmakers...
BY COLIN A. YOUNG Gov. Maura Healey broke into the top 10 of Morning Consult’s quarterly ranking of the nation’s most popular governors this month, ascending...
BY SAM DRYSDALE STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, OCT. 15, 2025…..Nearly a year after voters approved a ballot measure to explicitly allow the state auditor to audit the...
BY COLIN A. YOUNG OCT. 13, 2025-BOSTON…….Some state benefit recipients are getting a boost thanks to an increase in the indicator used to determine weekly maximums...
BY SAM DRYSDALE STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, OCT. 8, 2025…..Gov. Maura Healey on Wednesday issued a stern warning to participants in what she called “illegal street meetups,”...
BY MICHAEL NORTON The state can’t make up for all of the federal government spending cuts that are occurring, according to Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka, who...
BY COLIN A. YOUNG Tax collections missed the Healey administration’s mark last month but were up from a year earlier, an increase that state officials largely...
BY COLIN A. YOUNG & ALISON KUZNITZ SEPT. 30, 2025…..Three months into the fiscal year and two weeks out from a key deadline, state budget managers got...
BY COLIN A. YOUNG There’s been an uptick in reports of elderly Bay Staters being scammed into “devastating financial losses” by fraudsters who send couriers to...
By Sam Drysdale Amid “attacks” from the Trump administration on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, Massachusetts officials on Monday said their plan is to “double down.”...
