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Legislative audit push marked by legal maneuvering
02-14-2025 12:27 PM

By ALISON KUZNITZ

With the House gearing up for a potential legal battle over Question 1, Auditor Diana DiZoglio is trying to attach new urgency to her monthslong request that Attorney General Andrea Campbell intervene or allow her to seek outside counsel.

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Healey eyes ‘housing abundance’ in statewide plan
02-09-2025 2:00 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

The astronomical cost of housing for Massachusetts households across the income spectrum and a bleak outlook for the new units needed over the next decade underscore the focus of the Healey administration’s new housing plan for the next five years – more production.


Ed board inches toward vocational school reforms
02-05-2025 4:00 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

Any selective criteria used to admit students to vocational technical schools must be actually essential to the success of the school, per new regulations the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is drafting for their board’s review in February.


State board sees no easy answers on cellphones in classrooms
02-02-2025 2:01 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Attorney General Andrea Campbell wants to stop students from using cell phones in schools, but education regulators seem unsure how far they should go – especially when that power lies not in the state’s hands, but with local school districts.


Memo rescinded, but fed funds fight just starting in Mass
01-31-2025 3:14 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE and MICHAEL P. NORTON

Reacting to reports that President Donald Trump rescinded his federal funds freeze order, Congresswoman Lori Trahan warned “the fight is far from over” and the White House made clear that efforts to “end the egregious waste of federal funding” will continue.


Healey aims to aid rural roads through Chapter 90 b0ost
01-28-2025 10:20 AM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Gov. Maura Healey’s proposal to increase state funding for local road and bridge projects also overhauls the way those dollars are distributed, and includes major boosts for smaller and rural communities with smaller property tax bases but more road miles to care for.


Union: Faculty pay not keeping up with community college enrollment
01-21-2025 2:00 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON – As enrollment at community colleges booms under the state’s new free tuition program, the faculty that teach and support the burgeoning population are asking for their first wage equity adjustment in 25 years.


New Massachusetts license plate will spread overdose awareness message
01-20-2025 12:00 PM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON — The opioid epidemic has affected tens of thousands of people across Massachusetts, and later this year, vehicles on the state’s roads will be able to offer reminders that survivors and grieving families are all around us.


Ed secretary pledges gender identity protections
01-19-2025 12:00 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON – The state’s top education official pledged Tuesday that Massachusetts schools would protect transgender students, even after a federal judge scrapped President Joe Biden’s expanded Title IX protections of LGBTQ students the previous week.


Healey interested in revisiting shelter law intent
01-15-2025 12:38 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

Gov. Maura Healey on Friday discussed an interest in realigning the state’s right-to-shelter law “with its original intent,” opening up a possible area of debate in talks over her shelter spending bill.


Records request will test top Dems on legislative audit
01-08-2025 1:08 PM

By ALISON KUZNITZ and SAM DORAN

BOSTON — The three-day countdown for Beacon Hill lawmakers to comply with Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s probe of the Legislature started Monday afternoon, DiZoglio said, with her office now requesting specific records from the House and Senate.Meantime,...


Mass Auditor: State settlement agreements report is ‘not good’
01-06-2025 2:01 PM

By ALISON KUZNITZ

BOSTON – Auditor Diana DiZoglio is returning to old fights in the new year, including reforming the use of non-disclosure agreements in state government, potentially suing the Legislature for defying a new voter law, and accusing top Democrats of retaliation by cutting her office’s role on a health care board.


Mariano names calendar reforms, Trump response as priorities
01-03-2025 12:23 PM

By ALISON KUZNITZ

Concerned about negative public perception of the Legislature, House Speaker Ron Mariano pledged Wednesday at the start of the new session that his chamber will consider a “number of rules reforms” in February.He also warned his colleagues the state...


With new term, Spilka eyes K-12 funding, primary care in Massachusetts
01-02-2025 1:00 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON – Senate President Karen Spilka won another term leading the chamber with no speedbumps Wednesday and quickly set her sights on a combination of new and old priorities.During her inaugural speech, a newly reelected Spilka previewed some of her...


Massachusetts lawmakers wrap up session with frenzy
12-31-2024 3:00 PM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

Top Democrats needed a few extra months to reach agreements on major laws this session, but wrapped up business for the term with almost a day to spare and New Year’s Eve plans intact.The House and Senate adjourned their last meetings of the 2023-2024...


House, Senate find common ground on health care
12-30-2024 1:00 PM

By COLIN A. YOUNG

Democrats who have been negotiating separate health care industry oversight and pharmaceutical drug reform bills for months announced Friday night that they resolved their differences and plan to put the bills up for votes next week in the final days...


Gov. Healey takes stock midway through term
12-26-2024 9:20 AM

By COLIN A. YOUNG and SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — At the midway point of her term in office, Gov. Maura Healey said last week she’s comfortable with what she’s gotten done and is more focused on implementing what she sees as “transformational” accomplishments than on pondering her next...


Report shows stable hospital readmissions rate in Massachusetts
12-23-2024 9:40 AM

By ALISON KUZNITZ

BOSTON — The percentage of Bay Staters readmitted to hospitals shortly after initial visits has stabilized in recent years, though the rate in 2023 was higher among western Massachusetts residents and older Black and Hispanic patients, according to a...


Massachusetts coalition plans January lawsuit for audit
12-22-2024 3:00 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON – A new coalition of organizations is threatening to file a lawsuit in January to try to force the Legislature to comply with a new voter law giving the state auditor the authority to investigate the House and Senate.The Mass. Fiscal Alliance,...


Injection sites out as Massachusetts lawmakers seek compromise
12-20-2024 12:06 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE and SAM DORAN

BOSTON – Lawmakers dropped the controversial idea to pursue so-called safe injection sites in a compromise addiction and substance use disorder bill they filed Tuesday after months of private negotiations.Reps. Alice Peisch and Adrian Madaro and Sen....


Liability measure may aid testing of street drugs in Massachusetts
12-20-2024 9:53 AM

By CHRIS LISINSKI

BOSTON – Reforms in a bill that could clear the Legislature soon would “dramatically” improve efforts to monitor street-level drug supplies for dangerous contaminants, according to one expert.As lawmakers prepare to send Gov. Maura Healey a...

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