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Healey: NIH cuts will have irretrievable effects as UMass Chan stands to lose $80M

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is warning the effects of these cuts will be irretrievable, impacting residents, employees, and companies through all industry sectors.

Healey warns about researchers leaving, students staying away

Gov. Maura Healey has spent the last few weeks using her bully pulpit to warn of a brain drain out of Massachusetts, as a consequence of President Donald Trump's cuts to research funding and the threat of foreign-born students being deported.

House rejects Gov. Healey’s proposed prescription drug tax expected to generate $60M in revenue

Mariano told top pharmaceutical and biotech leaders at MassBio's "State of Possible" conference that the House would drop the idea that the governor put forward in her $62 billion annual budget bill in January.

Long-awaited South Coast rail begins service Monday

The region has lacked rail service for the past 65 years, and the new line joins a string of others into Boston.
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UMass Chan to form working group to address Trump Administration’s anti-DEI demands

In response to the President Donald Trump Administration’s threat to potentially cut off federal funding, UMass Chan Medical School is assembling a committee to navigate the rapidly changing and uncertain DEI landscape of higher education.

Healey: GOP budget cuts could leave 2M without health care

Gov. Maura Healey said the tax breaks that U.S. House Republicans envision in the budget blueprint approved Tuesday night could "devastate" a slew of government programs, and that nearly 2 million Bay Staters are at risk of losing health care coverage under GOP plans for Medicaid.

Healey: Trump plans to cut NIH funding a matter of life and death

The governor's remarks add, "The only one benefiting here is China – which, we hear, is already recruiting our faculty members who are losing funds."

Following outcry, Healey pauses closure of two state-owned hospitals

The Massachusetts Board of Education could advance draft regulations Tuesday in response to a voter-approved law that removed the requirement that students to pass the MCAS exam to graduate.
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Advocates express concern about Healey plan to implement vocational school lotteries

Some of the same advocates who have long pushed for changes are already vocal about their concerns with the proposal, arguing that it would fall short of fulfilling Gov. Maura Healey's "promise of fairer admissions."

WHA receives $23M from state for Lakeside Apartments redevelopment

The Worcester Housing Authority has received $22.5 million in state subsidies and tax credits to redevelop the Lakeside Apartments.
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