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

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...

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 bit.ly/480fUEq

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...

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/

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 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/10/m...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/m...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

NEW: Representative Seth Moulton draws a primary challenge after criticism over trans athlete remarks www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m...

NEW: Despite plummeting shelter populations and ahead-of-schedule closing of hotel shelters, state officials extended a 2023 declaration asserting that the state still can’t keep up with the demand and that it must keep in place current limitations. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/17/m...

Citing fiscal uncertainty, Governor Maura Healey has delayed $125m in earmarks until at least October ✍️ @samanthajgross.bsky.social & Matt Stout www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/15/m...

NEW: With fiscal uncertainty bubbling up from DC, lawmakers here trimmed the state’s spending plan by hundreds of millions and cut into programs that help the state’s poorest. What they didn’t slash: money for their hand-picked projects. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/15/m...

Executives at Massachusetts’ powerful health care and insurance worlds led a cadre of donors who funneled money to the state’s most powerful Democrats last year, a Globe analysis found.

Want to know who’s funding Beacon Hill’s top Democrats? This interactive dashboard breaks down more than 9,000 campaign donations made in 2024. Explore contributions to see where the money came from — and who gave the most. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/08/m...

NEW: Health care can dominate debate on Beacon Hill, most notably in how taxpayer money gets spent. The Globe found that no one lobbies lawmakers more than the industry’s leaders and few, if any, cut more campaign checks. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/08/m...

NEW: Governor Maura Healey signed a $61B state budget plan today, slashing $130M from it and holding back tens of millions in earmarks for local projects. Healey also asked for power to cut across government if revenues go south. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/04/m...

NEW: Trump’s sweeping tax- and spending-cuts bill would chop money for safety net programs the state relies on to help feed its poorest residents. Less noticed, the state budget sitting on Governor Maura Healey's desk threatens to exacerbate those cuts. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/02/m...

No more broker’s fees, fare-free regional transit: Despite gloom in DC, Massachusetts lawmakers send Healey on-time budget: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/30/m... #mapoli

Full budget agreement has been filed here: malegislature.gov/Bills/194/Ho...

NEW: Acknowledging a precarious financial moment, Mass. lawmakers released a $61B budget agreement they said slashes hundreds of millions of dollars in spending and outlows mandatory tenant-paid broker’s fees. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/29/m... #mapoli

ICYMI: Trump's newest travel ban echoes the 2017 "Muslim ban," which hit close to home in Boston. But instead of a cohesive legal front that slowed a version of the first ban, some experts here fear this one will face less resistance. w/ @tianarochon.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/05/m...

As ICE officials publicize surge in May arrests in Mass., Democrats call for more oversight www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/m...

ICYMI: Our explainer of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, or SEVIS, is mighty relevant today. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...

NEW: Healey admin failed to “adequately” prepare for the escalating strain on the state’s emergency shelter system, prompting officials to turn to what investigators call "unlawful" use of no-bid contracts, @DianaDiZoglio's office charged www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/20/m...

As emergency shelter population dips, Mass. Governor Healey directs all hotel shelters to close ‘ahead of schedule’ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/19/m...

Inbox: State to close the 32 existing hotel emergency shelters by the end of the summer, a deadline @MassGovernor previously said would be end of 2025. Per her administration, the total number of families in shelter recently dropped below 5,000 for the first time since July 2023

NEW: Responding to “widespread economic uncertainty at the national level,” @massgovernor.bsky.social office is putting a pause on hiring across a broad swath of state government. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/14/m...

Now more than ever, immigration lawyers are working overtime to re-frame their cases, come up with new legal strategies, and absorb changing rules as the Trump administration cracks down on immigration. They’re also burning out. My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/11/m...

Detained Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk has endured crowded and contaminated dorms, 45 minute-long asthma attacks, and uncontrollable coughing while being held in federal immigration detention, she said in new court filings. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/05/m...

So honored that our series, State Secrets, is a finalist in the prestigious Scripps Howard Journalism Awards for Distinguished Service to the First Amendment. @bostonglobe.com is also a finalist in Local/Regional Investigative Reporting + Business/Financial Reporting(!) scripps.com/fund/journal...

In new court filing, the Trump administration has appealed the Vermont judge's ruling to transfer Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk from ICE detention in Louisiana to Vermont

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Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University graduate student from Turkey being held in Louisiana, must be returned to Vermont by May 1, a federal judge ruled Friday. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/18/m...

NEW: A federal judge in Vermont ordered Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts PhD student detained by ICE last month and sent to a detention facility in Louisiana, be sent to Vermont by May 1 ahead of a May 9 bail hearing. Live blog has updates: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/18/n...

NEW: A federal immigration judge has denied bond to Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts PhD student who was arrested by ICE last month. During the hearing in Louisiana, government lawyers contended that Öztürk was both “a flight risk and a danger to the community.” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/17/m...

“Nothing about this is normal." w. @samanthajgross.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...

Why are so many students in Massachusetts + across the country losing visas? The answer lies in ICE's use of a little-known database typically used by university administrators. One expert told us: “Nothing about this is normal." bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/metro/student-visa-ice-higher-education/

Come work with us! The Globe is hiring a reporter to cover the health care, hospital, and life sciences industries in New England -- a huge beat tackling one of the biggest sectors in our region. Apply here: globe.rec.pro.ukg.net/BOS1501BGMP/...

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