The Healey administration plans to turn a decommissioned prison in Norfolk into an overflow shelter for up to 140 families waiting for placement into the larger state-funded system, a spokesperson for the governor said in a statement Saturday. #mapoli bostonherald.com/2024/05/11/gov…

Back in the yard sign capital of the world aka New Hampshire

okayyyy medford!!!!

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me

If you’re $600M in the hole and have a persistent problem making budget, how do you fix your money problems?

If you’re Governor Maura Healey’s new transportation task force, you hire a team of consultants who charge as much as $610 *an hour*. bostonglobe.com/2024/05/10/met…

“I am a renter, and there should be more renters in Congress.” -- says woman who also owns one, if not two homes. - #nhpolitics

After months of preaching fiscal restraint, the MA House’s most powerful Dems quietly slipped millions into sweeping budget amendments.

And it all happened in secret.

Matt Stout + I pulled these amendments apart, thread by thread. This is what we found:bostonglobe.com/2024/05/09/met…

NEW: MTG was never hugely popular among her more centrist colleagues. But after forcing a vote to oust Johnson, even droves of conservatives seem to have abandoned her — leaving her with next to no allies in the House.

w/ Anthony Adragna Jordain Carney

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This week, The Horse Race welcomes Maura Healey to the pod to talk economic development and climate tech with Steve Koczela, Jennifer Smith and Lisa Kashinsky. Plus, new surveys on issues facing youth and small businesses, and what's in the Senate budget.

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Maggie Goodlander, former senior White House aide and wife of Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, launches in #NH02 x.com/MaggieG603/sta…

Woah: Bruce Mohl reports that Gov. Maura Healey's transportation funding task force might be shifting gears — no longer developing a transportation funding plan but a 'tool kit' for policymakers to use to do so commonwealthbeacon.org/transportation…

Trump posts on Truth Social after the House overwhelmingly votes to save Speaker Johnson from MTG

Effort to oust Mike Johnson fails.

32 Dems and 11 Republicans voted to advance MTG effort. Seven voted present.

The vote was 359 to 43.
 
196 Republicans voted to kill it and 
163 Democrats voted to kill it

Hey friends, The Horse Race interviewed Maura Healey Maura Healey this week on climate tech and other things. Out tomorrow.

paging Maura Healey

BREAKING: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is moving on her ouster threat against Speaker Johnson on the House floor right now

“A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith's finding that Barrington police officers had probable cause to arrest John E. Deaton following an altercation at a Pop Warner football game in 2017.”

Morning, Mass. 🌧️ What’s not in the three state budget proposals: enough money for the emergency shelter system or the MBTA. Plus:
— Who’s made the ballot so far in the congressional races
— Senate’s corrections commission #mapoli w/Kelly Garrity politi.co/3WxfgZ7

INSIDE THE TRUMP TRIAL COURTROOM: Jurors riveted by Trump-Stormy Daniels showdown whipped their heads back and forth like tennis fans as Trump's lawyer grilled Daniels about her truthfulness and accused her of extortion
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