Massachusetts may join a growing number of governments here and abroad looking to force stricter rules for social media companies with young users.
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What Mass. can and can’t do about ICE
Even as Gov. Maura Healey took aim at ICE during her State of the Commonwealth speech last week, the bottom line is that Massachusetts officials have more power to deplore federal immigration actions than to stop them.
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What’s behind Massachusetts’s $250m investment in health insurance subsidies
The state still has a few days left of open enrollment through the Massachusetts Health Connector. And from executive director Audrey Gasteier’s perspective, Massachusetts saw “exactly what we worried we would see this open enrollment,” both due to “congressional inaction” on renewing the subsidies and the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed last year.
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What is the Massachusetts FAIR Plan, the state’s insurer of last resort?
The increased FAIR Plan policies and rising home insurance prices in the private market across New England both reflect and tell the climate story, since insurers are the arbiters of risk.