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Governor Healey and Mass. House leaders at odds over how to respond to ‘devastating’ Trump federal funding cuts - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · 6h

ICYMI: MA House members are back in session today to vote on overriding several spending items Gov. Healey snipped from the fiscal 2026 budget she signed in July, signaling a clash in views between the two branches on how to deal with Trump's budget cuts.
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Massachusetts House members will vote Wednesday to override “several” vetoes Governor Maura Healey snipped from the budget she signed in July.

Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe

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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 1d

Opponents of aggressive ICE enforcement are using a Supreme Court-inspired term to describe cases of racial profiling. Today's Starting Point explains.

The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

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Some legal and military scholars say we are watching an unprecedented erosion of constitutional limits and checks designed to prevent the deployment of the US military against its own citizens.

‘Extremely dangerous’: Trump’s latest push to send troops to blue states is unprecedented in modern military history - The Boston Globe

Some legal and military scholars say we are watching an unprecedented erosion of constitutional limits and checks designed to prevent the deployment of the US military against its own citizens.

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Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: After months of speculation, Republican mega-donor and medical device businessman Mike Minogue has entered the race for Massachusetts’ top office, promising to be “a new kind of governor” in a video announcing his run. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/01/m...

GOP megadonor and businessman Michael Minogue launches Republican bid for governor - The Boston Globe

Minogue joins former Baker administration officials Mike Kennealy and Brian Shortsleeve in the crowded field of Republicans hoping to take on Governor Maura Healey next year.

On eve of possible government shutdown, storm clouds darken Massachusetts’ fiscal outlook - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: Budget writers on Beacon Hill gathered today to discuss a bleak reality: the state is confronting “a challenging fiscal road ahead" as the federal government is set to run out of funding at midnight. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/30/m...

Massachusetts budget writers gathered on Beacon Hill Tuesday to discuss a bleak reality: the state faces “a challenging fiscal road ahead.”

Amid military escalation in Gaza, Mass. lawmakers traveled to Israel on trip funded by Israeli government - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · 11d

ICYMI: Amid military escalation in Gaza, Massachusetts lawmakers traveled to Israel on trip funded by Israeli government www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/26/m...

Massachusetts lawmakers visited Israel on a trip billed as the largest delegation of American legislators to ever visit the country.

You have questions about immigration and ICE activity in Massachusetts. We have answers. - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · 13d

You have questions about immigration enforcement in Massachusetts. We have answers.

My latest, for @bostonglobe.com's Starting Point: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/25/n...

The Trump administration has ramped up arrests here. Most of your queries reflected a concern about ICE tactics and the safety of friends and neighbors.

Leominster family says ICE agents held their daughter outside their home so they would turn themselves over - The Boston Globe

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 14d

Agents surround the 5-year-old U.S. citizen and beckon her father to come out.

“Don’t touch her!” Edwards Hip Mejia yells.

“You’re more than welcome to come pick her up,” one agent responds.

From the @bostonglobe.com’s Giulia McDonnell Neto del Rio and @samanthajgross.bsky.social

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“Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs,” an agent tells the father, waving at him to come out of the house, according to video the family recorded.

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Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · 21d

NEW: Mass. lawmakers are participating in a biennial tradition of tweaking the midterm primary date. Experts say ultimately, it doesn't really matter. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/m...

Mass. lawmakers move to change 2026 primary date to Sept. 1. Critics say it won’t help turnout. - The Boston Globe

While Massachusetts lawmakers are moving to push up the 2026 primary election to Tuesday, Sept. 1, a move endorsed by Governor Maura Healey.

For many immigrant families, Head Start is a lifeline. A judge just paused Trump directive moving to cut them off. - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · 26d

NEW: Charlie Kirk shooting renews debate: do stricter gun laws in states like Mass. mean safer gun culture?http://bostonglobe.com/2025/09/12/metro/charlie-kirk-massachusetts-gun-law/

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · 27d

ICYMI: A Rhode Island judge just sided with a group of Democrat-led states who argued against a Trump administration directive excluding undocumented children from Head Start, a federal program that gives poor families access to free child care
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The threats to the program mark the latest way Trump’s war on undocumented people is upending life for the community.

At Camp Jabberwocky, attacks on disability community feel worlds away - The Boston Globe

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Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Aug 26

For many, summer camp is an annual escape.

But camaraderie takes on a special meaning at Camp Jabberwocky, the oldest operating sleep-away camp for people with special needs in the country. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/26/m...

Beyond building community, camp on Martha's Vineyard has an even more profound meaning this summer.

Architect of Nantucket’s topless beach law faced shunning by friends and prediction of mayhem. Years later, island measure is no big deal. - The Boston Globe

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Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Aug 26

When Nantucket passed a bylaw allowing anyone to be topless on its beaches, there was consternation, pushback, and fears of what the tony island would become.

Three years later, it’s hardly a topic of conversation.

My little dispatch from the island: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/26/m...

For the past three summers, anyone, regardless of gender, has been able to go topless at Nantucket beaches under the law, which passed in the winter of 2022.

Mass. judge rules embattled Boston nonprofit protected by 2024 law signed by Healey violated consumer protection laws - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Aug 25

NEW: After a 5-year legal battle, a Superior Court judge has ruled that BlueHub Capital violated predatory lending statutes and other lending laws.

The ruling presents a difficult political question for Governor Healey, who has defended BlueHub. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/25/m...

A judge in the Massachusetts Superior Court has ruled that BlueHub Capital, a Roxbury-based nonprofit, violated predatory lending statutes.

Mass. secretary of veterans affairs and former state lawmaker to step down in fall, return to health care roots - The Boston Globe

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Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Aug 22

NEW: Mass. secretary of veterans affairs and former state lawmaker to step down in fall www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/22/m... #mapoli

Jon Santiago oversaw efforts to improve the state’s troubled soldiers’ homes.

Amid unsettled times in Washington, Mass. collects $2b more in tax revenue than expected thanks to millionaires tax - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Aug 8

NEW: Healey administration officials said the state collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than officials originally projected in the fiscal year that ended last month, thanks to revenue from the so-called millionaires tax and a tax on capital gains. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/08/m...

Healey administration officials said Friday that Massaschusetts collected $2 billion more in tax revenue than officials originally projected in the fiscal year that ended last month.

Lawmakers push efforts to ban ICE from wearing masks at Boston legislative summit - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Aug 5

NEW: A group of legislators attending a national conference for state lawmakers in Boston on Tuesday called on their colleagues across the country to pass laws prohibiting immigration agents from wearing masks during enforcement operations. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/m...

“There is no evidence that wearing masks is necessary for anything but intimidation of people,” said state Representative James K. Hawkins, a Democrat from Attleboro, who has filed a bill on Beacon Hi...

‘It’s outrageous’: Mass. governor forays into national debate over Texas redistricting vote - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Aug 5

NEW: Governor Maura Healey stepped into a national, partisan debate Tuesday as Texas Democrats block their Republican colleagues from passing a new congressional map backed by President Trump.
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Governor Maura Healey hosted 10 Democratic Texas state legislators in the State House on Tuesday who left their state.

Texas Gov. Abbott threatened Democrats who fled state over redrawn voting maps. In Boston, they got a standing ovation. - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Aug 4

When Texas Democrats boarded planes out of the state to block a vote on a redrawn congressional map that favors Republicans, Republican Governor Greg Abbott threatened to remove them from office.

On Monday, those same Democrats were celebrated in Boston. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/04/m...

Speaking at a closed-door luncheon in Boston Monday, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker lauded Texas Democrats for their efforts to block a vote on a redrawn congressional map that favors Republicans.

Mass. Governor: All shelters are closed, state of emergency for shelter system is over - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Aug 1

NEW: Governor Maura Healey has announced the closure of all hotel shelters and the end of a state of emergency she declared to address a housing crisis in August 2023. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/01/m...

Governor Maura Healey announced on Friday the closure of all hotel shelters and the end of a state of emergency she declared in August 2023.

Under fire from Trump, Mass. research, higher ed sectors would get $400 million injection via new bill from Healey - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Jul 31

NEW: In her latest effort to fill gaping holes caused by cuts in federal funding, Governor Healey introduced legislation that would inject $400M into R&D projects, including funds to sustain higher ed positions imperiled by federal actions. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/m...

Amid cuts from the federal government, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey filed a bill to inject $400 million into research and development projects.

Beacon Hill proposes pay raise for court-appointed lawyers, expansion of public defenders in effort to end work stoppage - The Boston Globe

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Jul 30

NEW: To get court-appointed attorneys back to work, Beacon Hill unveiled a pay increase for bar advocates as well as structural changes aimed at heading off future crises like the one that has gripped the state court system for weeks. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/m...

The move comes more than two months after many of the private, court-appointed attorneys known as bar advocates stopped taking cases.

Lawmakers solicit major dollars to fund national legislative gathering in Boston - The Boston Globe

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Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Jul 30

NEW: Massachusetts lawmakers have been asking corporations and others with interests before the Legislature to fork over as much as $250,000 each to help fund a national gathering of state legislators next week. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/m...

Massachusetts legislative leaders are soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars to help fund a massive gathering of lawmakers, lobbyists, and policy-makers in Boston.

Samantha Gross @samanthajgross.bsky.social · Jul 22

NEW: Last year, Governor Maura Healey dismayed advocates when she signed into law protections for a Boston nonprofit battling accusations of predatory lending. Now her Democratic colleague is proposing regulatory changes that would clamp down on BlueHub. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/22/m...