Inbox: Maura Healey signed a supplemental budget that limits emergency shelter stays to 9 months, pumps $251M into the system. Per spox, she signed in full without vetoes.

Bill also makes outdoor dining and to-go cocktails permanent. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/24/met…

INBOX: Maura Healey has signed a spending bill that pours another $251 million into the state's emergency shelter program, allows for another $175 million transfer next fiscal year, and limits some families to 9 months in the system, which she calls a 'responsible step.'

Breaking: Our mighty State House bureau is growing by one!!

Come work with me, Matt Stout, and Victoria McGrane 💪
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The Mass. House passed a measure Thursday that would require political candidates, super PACs, and others to disclose whether they use AI-generated material in ads, marking one of the Legislature’s first efforts to target “deepfakes” in campaigns. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/25/met…

Mass. legislative leaders say they have a deal on a long-debated spending package that could limit how long homeless and migrant families can stay in the state’s emergency shelter system while pumping millions into the program. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/24/met… w/ Samantha J. Gross

INBOX: Mass. legislative leaders say they've reached a deal on a spending bill that would pump hundreds of millions more dollars into the state's strained emergency shelter system. Details unclear at moment, but they expect to pass it tomorrow. Story tk #mapoli

More than a half-dozen greater Boston communities have passed bans or begun considering them just weeks after the Supreme Judicial Court upheld Brookline’s groundbreaking bylaw that banned the sale of tobacco to anyone born this century.
bostonglobe.com/2024/04/23/met… via The Boston Globe

NEW: Because of the actions taken by Florida officials in September 2022, some of the 49 migrants flown from San Antonio to Martha’s Vineyard are on the path to securing legal status. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/22/met… #mapoli

In our age of rapidly shrinking local news coverage, the passing of reporters like Fred Hanson of the Patriot Ledger, who died this week, are also a loss for the communities they served. I wrote about Fred's decades-long career covering the South Shore bostonglobe.com/2024/04/11/bus…

Members of a Black-led running group who said they were racially profiled during last year’s Boston Marathon sued the race organizer, the city of Newton, and Newton’s police chief days ahead of this year's race. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/12/met… The Boston Globe

NEW: The MA House unveiled a nearly $58B state budget proposal that would dedicate $500M to the state’s strained emergency shelter system — roughly half of what the Healey admin says the program will actually need to stay afloat.
bostonglobe.com/2024/04/10/met… w/ Matt Stout #mapoli

The Massachusetts House on Wednesday unveiled a nearly $58 billion state budget proposal that would dedicate $500 million to the state’s strained emergency shelter system — roughly half of the costs Maura Healey is projecting. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/10/met… w/ Samantha J. Gross

The long-running saga surrounding Shannon O’Brien, the embattled Massachusetts cannabis commission chair, will apparently run even longer. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/09/met… via The Boston Globe

INBOX: In yet another twist, Deb Goldberg's office says it agreed to postpone a two-day administrative hearing for Shannon O'Brien, the embattled Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission chair, after O'Brien's lawyers requested a delay 'due to unforeseen circumstances.' Background: bostonglobe.com/2024/04/08/met…

After months of sparring in courtrooms and the press, Treasurer Deb Goldberg and Shannon O’Brien will retreat behind closed doors this week, marking what could be the beginning of the end of O’Brien’s tenure as Massachusetts’ top cannabis regulator. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/08/met…

NEW: Due to “greater than expected growth,” state grant payouts for child care providers will be cut through the end of FY24 in order to make the funding last.

One provider, whose grant will drop from $1,100 to $290, told me: “I am in panic mode.” #mapoli bostonglobe.com/2024/04/07/met…

UPSET at MassGOP meeting: Ron Kaufman, the former RNC treasurer and general chair of the Republican National Convention, has been defeated 37-35 for another term as Massachusetts’ Republican national committeeman by Brad Wyatt. Kaufman will serve through the convention #mapoli

NEW: An emergency homeless shelter in Brighton is expected to be entirely evacuated Friday, a week after elevated levels of airborne mold prompted the state to relocate about half of the families, many of them migrants. bostonglobe.com/2024/04/04/met… w/ Deirdre Fernandes Stephanie Ebbert

Massachusetts tax collections for March broke a months-long downbeat streak, coming in slightly above expectations, officials reported Wednesday — the same day Governor Maura Healey implemented a hiring freeze in portions of state government. trib.al/kpGMXT2

“I don’t think the hiring freeze is a sign of crisis, nor do I think vaguely positive March revenues are a sign that happy days are here again” - Douglas Howgate

As hiring freeze takes effect, Healey admin says March revenues rebounded slightly, w/ Matt Stout bostonglobe.com/2024/04/03/met…