State Auditor Diana DiZoglio held a rally on Wednesday to pressure the State House into complying with the audit of the state Legislature voters passed into law last year. In 2024, 71.6% of voters answered "yes" on the ballot in support of auditing the state Legislature. Nearly a year since the initiative became law, the state has yet to allow the audit to be conducted, DiZoglio said.
Many Massachusetts residents are at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage, SNAP benefits, and more under the cuts. Massachusetts officials launched a new online dashboard this week designed to clearly show how federal funding cuts are negatively impacting Massachusetts under the Trump administration. All told, the state has lost about $3.7 billion due to President Trump and a Congress beholden to him, according to the dashboard.
Although the midterm elections are more than a year away, political observers in Massachusetts are ramping up speculation about two key topics: how Gov. Maura Healey will fare in her reelection bid and whether Sen. Ed Markey will have any major challengers. A new poll released this week by the Fiscal Alliance Foundation offers some insight into where things could be headed.
You can read the news stories. You can watch it on TV. You can read the articles, but until you're there, until you look somebody in the eye, and they tell you what happened, and you see that pain, you see where they live, you see burnt down or bombed out houses, it's hard to actually understand,
State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg then fired her in September of 2024, accusing her of "gross misconduct," making race-based remarks, and bullying. However, Goldberg's decision to remove O'Brien was made of "a house of cards," Suffolk Superior Court Judge Robert Gordon wrote in a decision issued last week. Goldberg, through Attorney General Andrea Campbell, is now appealing that ruling, according to court documents. A judge agreed to stay the judgement, which included returning O'Brien to her position and all due back pay and benefits,