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.
She can be reached at carrie_healy [at] nepm.org.
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With most lawmakers headed home for the holiday break, members of the conference committee continue to try to work out differences between spending bills approved by the Massachusetts House and Senate. The bills hold funds for the state's emergency shelters. -
Massachusetts House and Senate Democrats failed to negotiate a compromise before their holiday break that would send hundreds of millions of dollars to the state's emergency shelters. The spending bill was presented to the Legislature in September.
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The coordinator for gleaning at the nonprofit Rachel’s Table of Western Massachusetts explains how volunteers harvest the remains left in farmers' fields.
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Following a Superior Court upholding the Healey Administration's plan to stop expanding shelter availability amid surging demand, once the number of families in shelter reaches 7,500, Massachusetts won't guarantee placement to additional applicants.
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Aiming to buck trend among college presidents, Willie-LeBreton hopes to lead Smith 'for a long time'A recent study found college president terms are shrinking. Sarah Willie-LeBreton recently became the 12th president of Smith College in Northampton.
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While Massachusetts House lawmakers have passed a version of new, strict gun regulations, the Massachusetts Senate has yet to finish crafting their own bill.
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A recent out migration trend has researchers and lawmakers in Massachusetts concerned.
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Connecticut author Kathleen Housely's biography tells the story of an intellectual and polymath, James Gates Percival, whose geological work laid the foundations for generations of Earth scientists.
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Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll is defending Gov. Maura Healey's announcement that the state may not be able to guarantee shelter to families by the end of the month.
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Appeals to the federal government have so far yielded no change to work authorizations or funding to address the strain on the Massachusetts emergency shelter system.
