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Massachusetts Democrat Gov. Maura Healey signed the state budget, which provides an additional $426 million for housing illegals even as the state ranks as one of the worst for citizens fleeing. The Bay State is a sanctuary state with a “right to shelter” law that requires government to put homeless people into housing, at least for a period of time. The law has caused the state to spend hundreds of millions since President Joe Biden’s border crisis exploded: Governor Healy (D-MA) just signed a funding bill to provide up to $426 million to house illegals. Biden won Massachusetts by 33...

Healey and Wolohojian met when they both worked at Hale & Dorr, and had been together for eight years when Healey began her first term as attorney general in 2015, ... Healey used the Charlestown home they shared as her campaign’s headquarters early in her first run for attorney general, ... They later separated, and Healey moved to the South End before she launched her run for governor. She now lives in Arlington with her current partner, Joanna Lydgate, an attorney and her former deputy in the attorney general’s office. Healey and Lydgate told the Globe last year that their...

CBS Boston BOSTON - Gov. Maura Healey unveiled her $56 billion budget proposal on Wednesday, with plans to improve education and transportation, plus funds to tackle the ongoing migrant crisis. "So, in fact, we are tightening our belts," said Healey. The governor said the state is in a tough spot, with tax revenues flat and inflation still high.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) has unveiled $375 million in budget cuts, including cutting funding to firefighters, while at the same time rolling out college financial aid to illegal aliens. This week, Healey said her office will look to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the state’s budget to make up for a $1 billion shortfall for Fiscal Year 2024. As part of those budget cuts, cities and towns will lose out on millions in local fire department funding.

A group of migrants have been forced to move into Boston's Logan Airport as the 'sanctuary city' has run out of beds for them to sleep in. The party of up to 20 people, which includes babies, was seen sleeping underneath blankets on benches on Friday. They arrived in Boston as the Massachusetts shelter cap reached its maximum and there is deadlock over how best to spend $250million for emergency shelters.

As Massachusetts’ shelter system nears capacity, Gov. Maura Healey said Monday the state can no longer guarantee shelter placement for new arrivals after the end of this month. “I want to assure you that we will continue to engage, assess and serve every family who appeals for help as best we can,” Healey said during a press conference at the State House. The governor said that although families with high needs, including health and safety risks, will be prioritized for shelter placement as winter approaches, “we are entering a new phase of this challenge — we can no longer guarantee...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has activated 250 members of the National Guard to provide basic services at emergency shelter hotels amid an influx of migrants that has service providers stretched thin. Healey’s administration will also launch a Regional Rapid Response Teams to assist with overseeing shelter sites, she announced Thursday. The teams will be comprised of state employees. The move comes after she declared a state of emergency this month over the increasing number of migrants arriving in Massachusetts from Texas. […] Currently, more than 6,000 migrant families are in emergency shelters across the state. The National Guard members will...

BOSTON, MA — After declaring a state of emergency due to the influx of migrants numbering in the dozens, Massachusetts began to wonder if former President Trump was onto something with that whole build-the-wall thing. "So, it turns out walls prevent certain, umm, people from entering certain, umm, places," said Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey while blockading her office door with furniture for fear that migrants might come within arm's reach of her. "Also, you'll never guess what 'sanctuary state' actually means, hahaha." Meanwhile, in the humble town of Martha's Vineyard, residents had descended upon the perfectly-landscaped city park and were...

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey (D) on Tuesday declared a state of emergency as the state’s shelter system struggles to house newly arrived migrants without work authorization. In a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Healey blamed a number of factors for her state’s inability to cope with new arrivals. “This state of emergency arises from numerous factors, among them federal policies on immigration and work authorization, inadequate production of affordable housing over the last decade, and the end of COVID-era food and housing security programs,” wrote Healey.

"Sanctuary" state Massachusetts is the latest to declare a state of emergency over its inability to handle thousands of immigrants who have arrived after being released from federal custody at the United States-Mexico border. "This is a national issue that demands a national response," Gov. Maura Healey (D-MA) said during a press conference on Tuesday morning. "Today, I am declaring a state of emergency in Massachusetts." Healey called on Washington to help Massachusetts because the state could not financially or logistically respond to the 20,000 people living in state-funded shelters, hotels, dormitories, and other emergency facilities statewide — an 80%...

Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey (D.) on Tuesday refused to denounce the violent riots occurring nationwide, likening them to the purifying effects of a forest fire. "Yes, America is burning, but that's how forests grow," Healey said in a speech delivered to the Boston Chamber of Commerce. Healey, who is also the co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, repeated her remarks in a tweet later the same day, adding that Americans need to "seize the opportunity" to rid the country of "institutionalized racism," which she blamed for the violence. Maura Healey Today in my address to the bostonchamber, I...

A federal judge has advised two Democratic attorneys general leading the charge against ExxonMobil to appear for pretrial testimony on their climate-change investigations. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey are scheduled to undergo depositions by Exxon attorneys on Dec. 13 in Dallas, according to the Thursday order by U.S. District Court Judge Ed Kinkeade. Exxon is challenging the prosecutors’ subpoenas demanding thousands of documents and communications related to probes into whether the company committed fraud by misleading the public about its research on global warming. Exxon has argued that the investigations are politically motivated...

Yo, Maura Healey, your party is calling. They want you to run for governor. Please respond. Otherwise Charlie Baker, the RINO incumbent, is going to get what amounts to a free ride, because right now, barring a climate change apocalypse, there is no Democrat currently running for governor who can beat him.

In mid-August, Robert Kraft invited Attorney General Maura Healey for breakfast at his Chestnut Hill home. Healey wanted to launch an educational initiative that would teach high school students about teen dating violence, dangerous relationships, and respect for women. Kraft wanted to fund programs that would raise awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault, while fostering cultural change.

"Gaza flotilla: 2 dead, dozens injured in navy boarding." By JPOST.COM STAFF AND YAAKOV KATZ 05/31/2010 07:00 SNIPPET: "Passengers tried to wrest weapons from soldiers, Army Radio reports; Turkish leadership in emergency meeting to discuss response to attack at sea. Passengers tried to grab weapons away from soldiers boarding the Gaza protest flotilla, starting the violence, Army Radio reported Tuesday morning, responding to accusations that Israeli commandos assaulted the ships guns blazing."

A MAN whose five-year-old daughter was stolen from her bed and raped by a teenage pedophile has warned the criminal he "will be waiting" upon his release. The father, who cannot be identified, today vowed to do "whatever it takes" to keep Samuel Paul Healey behind bars "where he belongs". "I have no emotion for that rock spider, he deserves everything he gets and more," he said outside court. "Should he be afraid of me? I think he should be more afraid of the people he's inside with." The Supreme Court ordered Healey, 23, serve 13 years jail, with a...

Enhanced resources for this story – press conference audio – are available at www.statehousenews.com STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, NOV. 28, 2007…..Former and current Republican leaders blasted one of their own on Wednesday afternoon, ripping the record of former Gov. Mitt Romney in front of the state capitol and touching off an intra-party scuffle that pitted former allies in the small Massachusetts GOP against one another. Tearing into the presidential contender’s fiscal handling of the state and touting former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani as a more reliable candidate, former Gov. Paul Cellucci and former Treasurer Joe Malone, once rivals in the...

This thread will continue right up till the end of the night. Focus on Mass./New England and nationally, too. Governorships, Senate/House, ballot questions...who will control the Senate and House nationally? Key races... keep it here!

Get out and vote tomorrow! And tomorrow's HC live thread will continue ALL NIGHT LONG as the results come in, locally and nationwide.

2 years ago today: The Kerry NON-VICTORY party in Copley Square On today's show---THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Howie will be broadcasting LIVE today from The Rustic Kitchen at The Radisson 57 Hotel in Park Square Boston. Come on by!!!!!!!! 1st Hour Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey battled to pin down rival Deval Patrick on taxes, crime and immigration last night, demanding that he “tell the truth” as she saved her strongest debate performance for their final prime-time clash. Did you watch the festivities? Do you think she can still win? 2nd Hour President Bush has hit the campaign trail for the mid...