GOVERNORS

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s budget boosts spending 3.8% over last year, even as tax revenue growth slows to 2.9%, federal aid is uncertain, and reserves have already been tapped.

In her proposed budget released last week, the Mass. governor included a multi million-dollar "down payment" that will staff up and investing in infrastructure that could be used to kick thousands of residents off Medicaid programs like MassHealth, next year.

Healey also announced she is filing legislation that her office says is designed "to keep ICE out of courthouses, schools, child care programs, hospitals and churches; make it unlawful for another state to deploy its National Guard in Massachusetts without the Governor’s permission.

A proposal to tax recreation in the Franklin County town of Charlemont will be heard this week on Beacon Hill.

We cover Gov. Maura Healey's State of the Commonwealth address, discuss Quabbin Reservoir stewardship as water levels dip 10 feet lower than normal, explore a production furlough in Springfield following U.S. Customs and Border Protection decision and much more.

Healey used her speech to draw a contrast with the Trump Administration and outline new affordability moves.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey will deliver the annual State of the Commonwealth address on Thursday evening.

This week Massachusetts state executive and Legislative budget officials are expected to release the consensus tax revenue estimate, a figure that is used in fiscal year 2027 budget proposals.

The number crunchers on Beacon Hill began the state budgeting process. The consensus revenue hearing determined cautious growth is ahead in Massachusetts.

In October and November alone, 217 ICE flights departed from the airfield in Bedford, according to ICE Flight Monitor.