Vineyard Wind, the wind farm under construction off the coast of Massachusetts, has begun delivering energy to the power grid from five of its planned 62 wind turbines, company and state officials said Thursday.
The five turbines are operating at f…
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Healey headed to D.C. for Govs’ meeting
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey will lead a session focused on cybersecurity during the National Governors Association winter meeting in Washington D.C., which kicked off Thursday and runs through Saturday.
Healey traveled to Washington on Thur…
Revere man illegally possessed 30 guns, 3K rounds of ammo and drugs, police say
A Revere, Massachusetts, man was arrested after 30 illegal guns and drugs were discovered in his home this week, according to authorities.
Darrow DiBattista, 58, illegally possessed 18 rifles, 11 handguns, one large capacity feeding device, over 3,…
New food hall opening at H Mart in Quincy
[This story first appeared on Boston Restaurant Talk.]
An Asian supermarket chain will be adding a new food hall to one of its Boston-area locations.
A check on the place indicates that H Mart in Quincy is going to be building a new section with…
Steward has until Friday to submit financial records
Friday is the deadline for Steward Health Care to turnover its financial records to the state of Massachusetts.
Gov. Maura Healey said earlier this week that Steward should transfer ownership of the hospitals and leave the state altogether.
She’s demanding Steward create an action plan to detail how they plan to address these financial woes, saying if they don’t comply, the state will act by possibly freezing admissions to any of their nine hospitals in the state, closing beds and transferring patients to other hospitals.
In a three-page letter to Steward’s CEO, Healey listed several demands, including ensuring safe staffing and supply levels, allowing the state Department of Public Health to put monitors in all of its locations and immediately release its financial records.
Steward — a Texas-based health care system — operates nine hospitals in Massachusetts and reportedly owes $50 million in unpaid rent.
Meanwhile, the financial crisis are showing even in the little things such as the shortage of supplies due to not paying their vendors. Workers at two Boston locations say patients have already stopped coming in assuming hospitals are closed or are concerned about the care they may receive.
“Sometimes it’s difficult to get paper, water, some extension sets for IVs in the emergency room,” said a health care worker during a Boston City Council meeting Thursday.
Biden administration to cancel $19.5M in student debt for almost 2,500 Mass. borrowers
Thousands of students in Massachusetts are set to have their student loans forgiven.
The Biden administration provided new details overnight on how their newly released plan to relieve student debt impacts the Bay State.
Out of 153,000 people getting their student loans forgiven in the country, 6,000 are in New England.
Massachusetts tops the New England list with almost 2,500 borrowers with $19.5 million forgiven, followed by Connecticut with 1,600 people and almost 14 million in debt cancellation and smaller figures for the rest.
President Joe Biden’s Saving on a Valuable Education Plan, or SAVE, is forgiving a total of $1.2 billion in student loans nation-wide.
There’s currently 7.5 million people enrolled in the SAVE plan, with 100,000 of them in the Commonwealth.
The U.S. Education Department said it’s trying to expand the program and hopes to get to a point where it will be forgiving student loans on a regular basis.
“While a college degree is still a ticket to a better life, that ticket is too expensive and too many Americans are still saddled with unsustainable debt in exchange for a college degree,” said Biden.
To qualify for future loan forgiveness, you must be enrolled in the SAVE plan, have been making payments for at least 10 years and taken out $12,000 or less for college.
