The new 80-bed safety-net site in the ritzy Seaport neighborhood will be the second facility to open this year in Boston for migrant families that have taken refuge at Logan, weeks after the state converted a Roxbury rec center into a shelter.
Maura Healey
Even Healey expresses desire for shelter reforms amid migrant crunch
Gov. Maura Healey said she is open to reforming the state-run shelter system in order to address capacity concerns amid an influx of migrants into Massachusetts, including by imposing “certain conditions or other things.”
AG Campbell looks to high court to force Milton to comply with MBTA Communities Act
Attorney General Andrea Campbell escalated a dispute with Milton over a housing law to the Massachusetts’ highest court, where she asked a judge to force the town to comply by zoning at least one district for multi-family housing near a transit hub.
Gov. Healey tells hospital company Steward to leave after it misses financial deadline
“The financial information that Steward provided this week continues to be incomplete and insufficient,” state spokeswoman Karissa Hand said in a statement Saturday. “What Steward must do from this point forward is clear – complete an orderly transition out of Massachusetts.”
Offshore wind farm near Martha’s Vineyard generates enough power for 30K homes
A wind farm located miles off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard delivered enough power to the New England electric grid to power 30,000 homes in Massachusetts, the Healey administration said Thursday morning.
Steward hospitals attracting ‘interest’ from other operators
BOSTON — Steward Health Care’s landlord said Wednesday that Steward hospitals have drawn significant interest from other potential operators, the latest hint that facilities might soon be transferred away from the financially floundering for-profit system. A day after Gov. Maura Healey issued a biting call for Steward to hand off its licensed, operational Bay State […]
