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Carrie Healy

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Journalist. Host of NPR's Morning Edition at New England Public Media @nepublicmedia, 88-5 WFCR/Springfield, MA. Thoughts & opinions are my own.

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Carrie Healy’s Biography

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Host of weekly Massachusetts political/lawmaking podcast "Beacon Hill in 5" which looks at what's happening at the Statehouse in Boston, and how it impacts us in western Mass. https://www.nepm.org/podcast/beacon-hill-in-5

Articles

A modern drover on the overlooked 'workhorse' of Henry Knox's Noble Train of Artillery

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By Carrie Healy
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As Massachusetts celebrates the nation's 250th anniversary, history books often point us toward the big dramatic moments in Boston, but a lot of the heavy work that won the Revolutionary War happened in the mud and snow of Western Massachusetts. And it wasn't just done by soldiers. In the brutal winter of 1775, when Henry Knox brought tons of captured British artillery across the frozen Berkshire hills and over the frozen Connecticut River, he didn't do it with horses alone.
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Mass. farm wage battles and a school tax credit fight are set to collide on Beacon Hill

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By Carrie Healy
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Regional News Facebook LinkedIn Threads Bluesky Email Katherine Bailey / submitted A pair of well-worn boots ready to use on a farm in Conway, Mass. in 2022. Springfield lawmakers are backing a major legislative push to raise the state's farm worker minimum wage from $8 to $15 an hour and secure overtime benefits. While advocates argue the current wage exemptions allowing lower wages are deeply harmful. Agricultural groups say that struggling Western mass farmers can't absorb this adjusted cost.
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Massachusetts lawmakers eye a new child welfare bill as a high-stakes rent control showdown looms

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By Carrie Healy
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Regional News Facebook LinkedIn Threads Bluesky Email SHNS The public gallery balconies inside the Senate Chamber of the Massachusetts State House. Proponents of Massachusetts rent control ballot question are scrambling to negotiate a legislative off ramp, after opposition from realtors and supporters are offering a watered-down local option compromise to avoid a costly campaign battle this November.
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Interview

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

I was in the band, playing trombone, and didn't have time to work for the school newspaper.

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

A series of audio tributes to local residents who passed away from the coronavirus.

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

The New Yorker