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NCAA's Baker opens up on athlete pay, transfer portal
10-11-2024 11:45 AM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — After a $2.78 billion settlement that will allow colleges to pay their athletes got preliminary approval earlier this week, NCAA president and former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker was in Boston on Thursday touting the deal as “[solving]...

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Nonprofits see threat in Healey plan to implement tax deduction cap for charitable donations
02-09-2025 8:57 AM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — As nonprofits across Massachusetts face uncertainty over the future of federal funding, some are also expressing concern over a proposal from Gov. Maura Healey that they fear could further strain their budgets.


Healey to seek reelection in 2026
02-07-2025 3:51 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey intends to run for reelection in 2026, she said Friday.


Healey eyes ‘housing abundance’ in statewide plan
02-06-2025 2:25 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — 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.


State to begin search for first chief poet
02-06-2025 12:49 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey recently signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in Massachusetts for the first time.


By-right accessory dwellings now allowed in communities statewide
02-04-2025 5:02 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Accessory dwelling units are now allowed by right in single-family zoning districts across most of Massachusetts, under a law Gov. Maura Healey signed in August. The rule went into effect on Sunday.


State board sees no easy answers on cellphones in classrooms
01-30-2025 3:59 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Attorney General Andrea Campbell wants to stop students from using cellphones 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.


Tax, policy measures fill Healey budget
01-22-2025 5:52 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Though Gov. Maura Healey maintains that she is not raising taxes, the budget she rolled out Wednesday could apply existing taxes to some purchases, or decrease how much residents are able to write off on their tax returns.


Union: Faculty pay not keeping up with community college enrollment
01-19-2025 3:38 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.


Ed secretary pledges gender identity protections
01-15-2025 4:23 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 last week.


Regulators examine health care administrative costs
01-11-2025 2:01 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Massachusetts has the second-highest family health insurance premiums in the country, according to the Health Policy Commission, and the state Division of Insurance is investigating medical inflation as average premium rates across the individual and small group markets increased by 7.9% over the course of 2024.


Immigration spurs bump in Mass. population
01-09-2025 4:44 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Fueled by the highest immigration levels in decades, Massachusetts saw its largest population increase in 60 years between 2023 and 2024, and the rate of domestic outmigration has significantly slowed, according to U.S Census data released last month.


Spilka eyes K-12 funding reform, primary care overhaul
01-02-2025 3:49 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Fresh off winning another term leading the Massachusetts Senate, President Karen Spilka quickly set her sights on a combination of new and old priorities, including one that will have significant interest in the Pioneer Valley — reexamining...


School districts face decisions in wake of Question 2
12-23-2024 4:31 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Massachusetts school districts have to come up with new processes before the end of the school year to determine if a student has shown competency over state academic standards, as state officials face an onslaught of questions raised by...


Lynch favors western rail pursuit over linking Boston train hubs
11-20-2024 1:01 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — A Boston area congressman on Monday positioned himself opposite one of his colleagues from north of the city in one of the longest running debates about transforming the state’s public transit system.Congressman Stephen Lynch said that he...


Clean energy bill heads to governor
11-15-2024 3:36 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — After months of delay, the Legislature sent a major clean energy bill to Gov. Maura Healey’s desk amid shifting national energy policy dynamics.The House voted 125-17 to approve the 139-page House-Senate compromise bill (S 2967), and both...


Massachusetts voters reject Question 5, tipped wages changes for restaurant servers
11-06-2024 3:55 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON – Voters defeated a proposal to gradually increase how much employers must pay workers who collect tips, like servers in restaurants.The campaign opposed to phasing out the current tipped-wage structure and increasing the pay for waiters and...


UMass streamlines ‘free’ message to working families
10-29-2024 4:45 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — The University of Massachusetts is simplifying its message for prospective in-state students and their families: If you make under $75,000, you can come to any one of the system’s campuses for free.There’s been a surge in state funding for...


MCAS debate colors school accountability system review
09-25-2024 5:13 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

As scores on statewide standardized tests rolled in Tuesday, revealing that students are still struggling from pandemic-related learning losses, education officials contemplated an overhaul of the state’s accountability system – against the backdrop...


UMass puts rural emphasis in early college program
09-19-2024 7:00 AM

By SAM DRYSDALE

The program meant to give students a head start on their college enrollment is expanding, which officials say will save students money, make them more likely to attend college than their peers and increase lifelong earning potential.University of...


Report examines Question 2, MCAS grad requirement
09-05-2024 8:58 PM

By SAM DRYSDALE

BOSTON — Students with cognitive disabilities and English language learners who are held back from a diploma due to the MCAS exam could stand to benefit the most from a ballot initiative that would “greatly diminish the state’s role as a gatekeeper to...

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