Carrie Healy
Morning Edition Host/ReporterCarrie Healy hosts the local broadcast of Morning Edition at NEPM. She also hosts the station’s weekly government and politics segment Beacon Hill In 5 for broadcast radio and podcast syndication.
Carrie grew up on a working dairy farm, and continues to learn valuable life lessons from farming with her own family. As a kid, she was kept company by the radio in the barn, listening to Boston Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins games — and that is also where she was first heard on the radio in 1988.
Her family ties to western Massachusetts trace back to the 18th century, where generations of her ancestors built homes and livelihoods for their families. She fondly recalls her grandfather’s stories of electricity illuminating light bulbs in Ashfield for the first time, and being the designated horse-drawn carriage driver for the town doctor.
Carrie holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Sara Shostak is a medical sociologist who looks at the social production of health and illness. She explains the other work that happens at urban farms across Massachusetts that isn't measured like pints of tomatoes. -
Technical details between Massachusetts House and Senate versions of the immigrant driver's license legislation must be worked out by lawmakers.
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Lawmakers will consider giving immigrants without legal status a pathway to get a state driver's license, and further consider sports gambling this week at the Massachusetts Statehouse.
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Some drinking water tests have shown elevated levels of haloacetic acid. While state officials say the water is safe, one group of residents aren't convinced.
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Charlie Baker's administration awarded the e-commerce giant, Wayfair, $31 million in tax breaks on the expectation it would create 300 jobs in Pittsfield and 3,000 in Boston.
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This week, the Massachusetts House kicks off deliberations Monday on its $49.6 billion spending plan for FY23. The Senate, which meets in formal session Thursday, could move towards a long-awaited vote on sports betting after a bill emerged Friday from the Ways and Means Committee. Matt Murphy of the State House News Service talks about the week ahead.
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Analysis from the UMass Donahue Institute found Massachusetts casino layoffs were more pronounced among non-white workers.
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A Massachusetts Senate staffer push to unionize is far from a done deal. State House News Service reporter Matt Murphy discusses the complexities of the situation.
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A Massachusetts Senate staffer push to unionize is far from a done deal. State House News Service reporter Matt Murphy discusses the complexities of the situation.
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Springfield City Council passes resolution seeking more time to review economic development projectsThe resolution calls for 30-days notice before the city council in Springfield, Massachusetts, makes a financial decision regarding economic development projects.
