Maura Healey

February 17, 2024 0

Governor Healey’s FY25 Budget Proposal Tightens Belts and Adjusts Priorities

Analyzing the viability of a state budget will always fall into partisan zones. What’s good for one group will invariably be criticized by another. Writing in a January 26th 2024 posting on Masslive.com, John L. Micek put it succinctly while reflecting on the sometimes desperate measures we all take to adjust our priorities based on available funds: “They’re all short-term fixes that get you where you need to be. And they solve the immediate problem. But it’s not exactly the […]

November 3, 2023 0

State, Federal Govs. Attempt to Solve Migrant Emergency in Massachusetts

by Jeff Millman

In August, Governor Maura Healey declared a state of emergency over increased migration to Massachusetts. More than 24,000 people are now living in state-funded shelters, hotels, dormitories, and emergency facilities in the state, and the Healey administration was concerned that these temporary dwelling units would soon be at capacity. In mid-October, Healey confirmed that the emergency shelter system would reach its limit by the end of the month and that Massachusetts would no longer be able to guarantee shelter for […]

August 18, 2023 0

Healey Declares State of Emergency to Take Care of 20,000 Refugees in Mass.

by Joanna Lin

On the second floor of an orange building on Allston’s Harvard Avenue, the muted conversations of parents and the loud chatter of young children can be heard, among suitcases and toys. In this pocket of the city that is the Brazilian Worker Center, Haitian families seek temporary refuge before continuing their long journeys to hotels or medical centers and pursuing the place where they hope to reside: a safer and more permanent home. They compose some of the 20,000 individuals, […]

January 21, 2023 0

Women Holding the Keys to Power in Massachusetts State Government

by DongDong Yang

For the first time in our state’s history, Massachusetts will boast an all-female executive team, including Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, (first woman and first person of color to be elected as Boston’s mayor), State Governor Maura Healey, (first woman and first openly gay elected governor), Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, Attorney General-elect Andrea J. Campbell, (first black woman to hold this constitutional office), State Auditor Diana DiZoglio (only the second woman ever to hold this position) and Treasurer of Massachusetts Deborah […]

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