GOV. MAURA HEALEY is slowly – some would say too slowly – putting the pieces in place to take control of the MBTA. Back in August, when it was widely […]
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Posted inTransportation
Healey appointing non-MBTA team to review CRRC situation
GOV. MAURA HEALEY said on Thursday that she is putting together a team of non-MBTA technical and legal experts to review the troubling situation at the Chinese-owned Springfield assembly plant […]
Posted inPublic Records, State Government
Healey won’t file legislation subjecting her office to records law
GOV. MAURA HEALEY said on Monday that she will not introduce legislation that would make her office subject to the Massachusetts Public Records Law. ”I don’t think I need to […]
Posted inPublic Records
Healey unveils new public records policy
GOV. MAURA HEALEY unveiled a new public records policy on her office’s website on Monday, but the wording leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Previous governors going all the way […]
Posted inEnvironment
Healey greets Mothers Out Front at her office door
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A CLIMATE JUSTICE GROUP got a last-minute speaker at its State House rally on Wednesday — Gov. Maura Healey, who told a group of mostly mothers […]
Posted inHealth, State Government, State House News Service
Source: Healey picks BMC chief to head health and human services
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV. MAURA HEALEY has tapped Kate Walsh, president and CEO of Boston Medical Center, to lead the state’s sprawling health and human services secretariat, the largest […]
Posted inState Government, State House News Service
Mass. Business Roundtable official appointed to Healey cabinet
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE LAUREN JONES, a Massachusetts Business Roundtable official who at one point worked as communications director for the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, was announced […]
Posted inPolitics
Big Three gather but provide few details on talks
THE TOP THREE officials on Beacon Hill – now all Democrats with the departure of Republican Charlie Baker — gathered to discuss priorities and strategies for the first time on […]
Posted inEnvironment, State Government
Healey signs executive order on climate
IN HER FIRST official act as governor, Maura Healey on Friday signed an executive order establishing a cabinet-level climate office that will work in conjunction with climate officers stationed within […]
Posted inGovernment, Politics, State Government
Maura Healey sworn in as 73rd Massachusetts governor
AMID A DAY full of pomp, circumstance, and a nod to history in the making, Maura Healey on Thursday was sworn in as the 73rd governor of Massachusetts and the […]
Posted inState Government, State House News Service
Healey goes with interim secretary of health, human services
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV.-ELECT MAURA HEALEY will start her term as governor with an interim secretary of health and human services, acknowledging that she needs more time to find […]
Posted inEconomy, State Government, Technology
Healey names cabinet secretaries for economic development, technology
ONE DAY BEFORE she is slated to be sworn in as governor, Maura Healey continued to fill out her cabinet roster, naming a business veteran to helm economic development and […]
Posted inOpinion
Give rural Mass. a seat at the table
AS GOV.-ELECT MAURA HEALEY prepares to take office, we’re hearing a lot about “regional equity” these days. But defining exactly what this is beyond some nice-sounding buzz words is elusive. […]
Posted inOpinion
Nature-based climate solutions are crucial
This commentary is written as a letter to Gov.-elect Maura Healey. WE JOIN THE CHORUS of leaders across the Commonwealth in congratulating you on your historic election victory. As you […]
Posted inTransportation
Healey goes with a team approach on transportation
GOV.-ELECT MAURA HEALEY named two women to head the state’s transportation bureaucracy on Friday, appointing Gina Fiandaca as secretary and Monica Tibbits-Nutt as undersecretary. Fiandaca has experience overseeing large transportation […]
Posted inState Government
Healey appoints cabinet rover on climate change
GOV.-ELECT MAURA HEALEY named an environmental attorney as her cabinet-level climate chief on Monday, setting in motion another experiment in the best way to manage state bureaucracies that have independent […]
Posted inThe Download
Could Marylou Sudders be staying on?
Editor’s note: After The Codcast went live and this report on it was published, Sudders notified employees that she would be stepping down January 3. After eight years as secretary […]
Posted inHealth Care
Could Marylou Sudders be staying on?
Editor’s note: After The Codcast went live and this report on it was published, Sudders notified employees that she would be stepping down January 3. AFTER EIGHT YEARS as secretary […]
Posted inEducation
Hints of Healey education plans
IT HAS FAST become the parlor game of choice among political and policy prognosticators: Exactly what will incoming Gov. Maura Healey do once she grabs the reins of power in […]
Posted inPolitics
Healey announces transition committee chairs
GOV.-ELECT MAURA HEALEY, whose campaign often addressed issues more with broad brushstrokes than detailed policy prescriptions, announced six transition policy committees on Friday that will be tasked with “translating the […]
Posted inPolitics
The coming dynamics of one-party rule on Beacon Hill a question mark
WHEN MAURA HEALEY takes office in January, it will mark only the second time in 32 years that a Democratic governor and Democratic-controlled Legislature will exercise one-party rule in Massachusetts. […]
Posted inNews Analysis
One-party rule returns to Beacon Hill
FOR DECADES IT has served as a winning argument for electing Republican governors in deep-blue Massachusetts: A Republican in the corner office is a sensible check on the impulses of […]
Posted inPolitics
Healey elected first female, gay Massachusetts governor
MAURA HEALEY shattered a glass ceiling on Tuesday in a landslide, becoming the first woman ever elected governor in Massachusetts. She topped a Democratic ticket that elected three new women […]
Posted inThe Download
Healey says tax relief a priority on ‘day one’
When legislative leaders this week pushed discussions of tax breaks from this year into next, one reason they gavewas so the discussion “will be informed by the views of a […]
