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Healey’s gas tax suspension stripped from supplemental budget
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A two-month suspension of the 24-cents-per-gallon state gas tax proposed by Gov. Maura Healey last month has been stripped by lawmakers from a supplemental budget bill now moving through the House. Healey made her pitch just days after her Republican challenger in the general election, Mike Minogue, announced a similar proposal, prompting many to criticize Healey for “copying” Minogue.
Healey’s gas tax suspension stripped from supplemental budget
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A two-month suspension of the 24-cents-per-gallon state gas tax proposed by Gov. Maura Healey last month has been stripped by lawmakers from a supplemental budget bill now moving through the House. Healey made her pitch just days after her Republican challenger in the general election, Mike Minogue, announced a similar proposal, prompting many to criticize Healey for “copying” Minogue.
Gov. Healey ‘proud’ of scandal-plagued state police, deflects blame for LaMar Cook in final debate against Minogue
Democratic Gov. Maura Healey said she is “proud” of the scandal-plagued Massachusetts State Police and continued to deflect blame for her disgraced former aide, LaMar Cook, in her second and final debate Thursday night against GOP challenger Mike Minogue.
Ex-Healey aide and alleged cocaine dealer charged with SNAP, wire fraud
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Lamar Cook, Gov. Maura Healey’s former deputy director for Western Massachusetts accused of drug trafficking out of state buildings, has been charged with SNAP benefits fraud by federal investigators. US Attorney Leah Foley’s office announced Wednesday morning that Cook was being charged with one count of SNAP fraud and wire fraud. Cook, 46, was arrested on a warrant for the charges on Wednesday. “The alleged conduct is simply egregious.
The $1.7B education scholarship fight pits Healey against Minogue
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... New York Gov. Kathy Hochul just declared, “I’m not going to leave money on the table,” and will join a Trump-backed education scholarship program. That’s the same estimated $1.7 billion pool of cash that could come to Massachusetts if Gov. Maura Healey followed her New York neighbor and fellow Democrat, but she is “reviewing” the matter, she told the Herald.
The $1.7B education scholarship fight pits Healey against Minogue
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... New York Gov. Kathy Hochul just declared, “I’m not going to leave money on the table,” and will join a Trump-backed education scholarship program. That’s the same estimated $1.7 billion pool of cash that could come to Massachusetts if Gov. Maura Healey followed her New York neighbor and fellow Democrat, but she is “reviewing” the matter, she told the Herald.
AG Campbell issues report on child clergy sex abuse across three Massachusetts dioceses
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Attorney General Andrea Campbell has released a new report detailing nearly 1,000 cases of child sex abuse allegedly committed by 270 clergy across the Fall River, Worcester and Springfield dioceses, first publicly exposed in 2002, and the institutional failures that allowed the abuse to occur and continue.
Gov. Healey files bill to suspend state gas tax, citing Trump, War in Iran
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gov. Maura Healey is calling for a two-month suspension of the 24-cents per gallon state gas tax, filing legislation Tuesday just days after her Republican challenger in the general election, Mike Minogue made the same call as gasoline prices continue to climb. “If you go back to February, before the start of Donald Trump’s war, gas was about $2.90 a gallon. It’s now up over $4.40 a gallon, okay?
Gov. Healey’s climate chief departs to lead Vermont college
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Melissa Hoffer, the state’s first-ever climate chief, has accepted a job as president of Vermont Law and Graduate School, marking her the ninth administrator to leave the executive office since Gov. Maura Healey began her term in January 2023. The college, which announced the news Thursday, says Hoffer will oversee the school’s academic programs, which puts an exclusive focus on professional legal education and graduate public policy programs.
Gov. Healey, Whip Katherine Clark call on Trump to reverse ‘devastating’ proposed overhaul of Head Start program
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In reaction to a proposal for a major overhaul to the federal Head Start program by the Trump administration, Gov. Maura Healey and three members of the Massachusetts federal delegation are calling on the president to reverse the newly proposed standards they say will “dismantle” the program in the Bay State. The proposed changes to the program, according to the U.S. Dept.
Western Mass. towns call on AG Campbell to investigate, prosecute federal immigration agents
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Three western Massachusetts towns have signed a resolution calling on Attorney General Andrea Campbell and Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan to “investigate and prosecute federal agents” carrying out immigration enforcement operations in the state.
GOP Lt. Gov., AG candidates off ballot following State Ballot Law Commission ruling
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Republican candidates for Lt. Gov. and Attorney General, Anne Manning Martin and Michael Walsh, will not appear on the September ballot following a Friday ruling by the State Ballot Law Commission, which found the two did not gather the required amount of signatures to qualify after falling victim to a fraud scheme. The decision shakes up the Republican primary race for Lt. Gov.
Maura Healey, MassDOT implement new wrong-way driver technology after death of MSP Trooper Kevin Trainor
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gov. Maura Healey and public safety leaders announced the statewide implementation of new technology on Massachusetts streets and highways in an effort to prevent wrong-way driving accidents following a flurry of recent crashes. This new tech follows the wrong-way driving death of State Trooper Kevin Trainor, who died in May after intercepting the driver with his cruiser.
Kennealy endorses Mike Minogue in gubernatorial race
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Minogue has earned the endorsement of his once-primary opponent and former fellow GOP candidate for governor, Mike Kennealy, making the announcement in front of a crowd of supporters at Minogue’s campaign headquarters in Burlington on Thursday.
Markey takes home Democratic party endorsement in Senate reelection bid
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sen. Ed Markey secured the party nomination Saturday at the Massachusetts Democratic Convention, taking in 2,744 votes for 73.94% to challenger Congressman Seth Moulton’s 1,018 (26.06%) at the DCU Center in Worcester. Prior to the delegate vote, Moulton addressed the party first, launching the attack on President Donald Trump and Republicans, also notably promising to not vote for Sen.
Pressley, McGovern join Sen. Markey in boycotting State of the Union address
BOSTON — Democratic U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Jim McGovern (MA-02) say they will not attend the State of the Union address Tuesday night, joining Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) in boycotting the event in protest against President Donald Trump. A growing group of congressional Democrats have announced they will instead be attending “The People’s State of the Union,” a counterprogramming demonstration against the president. “The State of our Union is traumatizing our children.
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