Healey wants to curb public access to birth and death records in bid to ‘prevent fraud’ - The Boston Globe Governor Maura Healey is seeking to restrict who has access to Massachusetts birth records, death certificates, and marriage notices.

NEW: Healey wants to curb public access to birth and death records in bid to ‘prevent fraud’
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Why Is Everyone Wicked Obsessed With This Boston Globe Reporter?

What's so crazy about the way @emilysweeney22.bsky.social has blown up (for all the right reasons) is that she was using social media to promote her work at the @bostonglobe.com back when most of her colleagues didn't even know what it was. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/s...

‘A new frontier’: With his first live show, WBZ NewsRadio’s Matt Shearer brings viral TikToks to The Wilbur stage - The Boston Globe The show, a two-and-a-half-hour event played like a Dunkin’-stained blend of America’s Funniest Home Videos for the TikTok-era with a chaotic late night program featuring the kind of Massachusetts profanity, but also pride, that makes the state unique.

Matt Shearer pitched his first-ever show as the “most unhinged episode of Oprah.” He delivered with a furry, poop songs, a Red Line car seat, $5 Dunkin’ gift cards for all, and lots of Masshole energy. More on the famed reporter who took his viral videos onstage: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/10/b...

Brigham and Women's Hospital allegedly disposed of fetal or newborn remains against the family’s wishes five times in 18 months, according to lawsuits.

One mother said her baby "was discarded with medical waste. I will never get justice for that.” trib.al/kOjQQj6

Looking to talk to Mass. public school teachers as part of a @bostonglobe.com story on discussing the Iran war in school with students.

Interested? Drop me a line: john.hilliard@globe.com

* Especially hoping to hear from educators who are veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan.

Faced with a lack of housing, a Cape Cod nonprofit bought a condo for Provincetown Independent reporters - The Boston Globe Three reporters share the three-bedroom, three-bathroom condo, paying below market rates to live year-round in the community they cover.

“The paper can’t survive if it can’t get young people to come and work here,” said Ed Miller, editor of The Provincetown Independent, about why the outlet's nonprofit partner bought a condo to house reporters at below-market rates. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/07/b...

Calling it ‘a difficult moment,’ Wu says she’ll file $4.9 billion budget plan with targeted cuts - The Boston Globe Wu’s spending recommendation would increase spending by 2 percent over the current year’s $4.8 billion budget.

After warning about looming financial challenges, Mayor Michelle Wu said she’ll file a $4.9 billion budget proposal this week that includes “difficult, targeted reductions” but prioritizes maintaining key city services.

‘You expect your child to come home and not in a body bag’: Report finds most DOC suicides were in segregated units - The Boston Globe Four of the men had previously tried to kill themselves, though clinicians had not developed safety plans aimed at preventing future attempts.

Most of the six inmates in Massachusetts prisons who died by suicide last year had been in or just left segregated units the Department of Correction had created to replace the discredited practice of solitary confinement.
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Parent who bought $160,000 in Croft School bonds sues founder, accuses him of running Ponzi scheme - The Boston Globe The complaint alleges that Croft was so in debt it was unable to pay parents the interest it owed them for the school bonds. To cover those costs, the school sold a second round of bonds, according to...

The latest allegations of fraud at the troubled school come as hundreds of families mount a desperate effort to raise enough money to keep Croft’s doors open and continue paying its staff. @bostonglobe.com

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A Middlesex County grand jury indicted Dr. Derrick Todd on charges that he sexually assaulted 11 patients.

This comes months after a Spotlight story detailing how hundreds of patients said they were abused by the renowned doctor. trib.al/JB4rcJO

Croft School officials say founder allegedly forged $500,000 letter of credit. Then the tuition deadline moved. - The Boston Globe A Boston police spokesperson confirmed Friday that the department has an open investigation on the school's alleged financial mismanagement but would not comment further.

The leader of the troubled Croft School needed money. What came next led to the financial unraveling of the private, for-profit school. @bostonglobe.com

‘They don’t even pretend to comply’: Mass. agencies, cities, and towns openly flout open record law - The Boston Globe When requests are fought or ignored by agencies, enforcement of Massachusetts' public records law often falls to those who requested the documents.

The SPJ cites this recent @bostonglobe.com report on the weaknesses of the Mass. public records law
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SPJ names State of Massachusetts recipient of 2026 Black Hole Award Society of Professional Journalists, improving and protecting journalism since 1909

The Society of Professional Journalists has named the State of Massachusetts recipient of its 2026 Black Hole Award, an annual dishonor recognizing government entities that demonstrate a troubling lack of transparency and disregard for the public’s right to know.

“Apparently I’m an idiot.” Woman at Pennsylvania gas station who voted for Trump rips into him, calls him “a worthless pile of sh*t”.

Croft School board tells families it needs $5 million to keep doors open after founder allegedly lied about finances - The Boston Globe The board said that the school's leader, who has been suspended, lied for years about its financial health and hid $13 million in debt.

The founder of the private Croft School misled families and staff about the institution’s financial condition for years, its directors told families Tuesday, by, for example, hiding $13 million in debt, overspending its budget, and keeping two sets of records. @bostonglobe.com

Borgs and other containers confiscated by Transit PD at Broadway station

South Boston smorgasborg
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#SouthBoston #parade

Founder of Croft School suspended, officials launch investigation into ‘serious irregularities’ of finances - The Boston Globe The school’s executive director, Scott Given, had been suspended by the board on March 7th.

The Croft School has launched an independent investigation and suspended its executive director after the school’s board announced Friday there were “serious irregularities” with its finances. @bostonglobe.com

Judge orders release of 14-year-old girl detained by federal immigration agents in Marlborough and transferred to New York - The Boston Globe The Department of Homeland Security claimed later Wednesday that agents took the girl into custody to protect her from suspected gang members she was in a car with.

A federal judge Wednesday ordered US immigration authorities to free a 14-year-old girl and return her from New York to Massachusetts after she was detained @bostonglobe.com
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GBH is open to examining merger with WBUR as public media adjusts to life without federal funding - The Boston Globe Public broadcasters across the country have so far weathered $1.1 billion in federal cuts. But public media executives fear the relief is temporary.

NEW: GBH and WBUR have long insisted that there’s room for two public media giants in Boston. In an era without federal funding, could that come to an end? “It would make a lot of sense to merge,” GBH CEO Susan Goldberg told me. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/12/b...

In one year, Healey has lost more than half of her Cabinet, outpacing the departures under her predecessors - The Boston Globe Eight Cabinet members have departed Governor Maura Healey’s administration since she took office in 2023.

Eight Cabinet members have departed Healey’s administration since she took office in 2023, including seven in the last year alone, in an unusually busy exodus ahead of a governor’s reelection bid. @bostonglobe.com

America must not learn to live with 72,000 overdose deaths a year With the drop in overdose deaths, “we're celebrating: a death toll that exceeds total American combat fatalities in Vietnam, every single year,” writes addiction researcher Wayne Kepner.

America must not learn to live with 72,000 overdose deaths a year www.statnews.com/2026/03/09/d... via @statnews.com

Whose money is it? - The Boston Globe Beacon Hill has resisted an audit of the legislature’s use of tax dollars despite voters’ support. What gives?

"The voters said one thing. They wanted an audit of the Massachusetts legislature.

You would think that people whose salaries are paid by taxpayers would oblige to their wishes. You would be wrong." #mapoli

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A Reporter in Nashville, Detained by ICE Estefany Rodríguez, a journalist for a Spanish-language outlet, was covering immigration raids. The next day, agents arrested her without a warrant.

Estefany Rodríguez, a reporter for a Spanish-language outlet in Nashville, was covering immigration raids. The next day, ICE agents arrested her without a warrant. Read Carolina Abbott Galvão. www.cjr.org/analysis/est...

The Mass. public records law needs some teeth. Will 2026 be the year that it happens? Massachusetts has long been notorious for being one of the least progressive states with regard to government transparency. The state’s public records law is alone in exempting the governor&#…

New at Media Nation: The Massachusetts public records law needs some teeth. Will 2026 be the year that it finally happens? #mapoli dankennedy.net/2026/03/05/t...

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

This is as good as it gets!!

...And then we wrote a song about it
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‘They don’t even pretend to comply’: Mass. agencies, cities, and towns openly flout open record law - The Boston Globe When requests are fought or ignored by agencies, enforcement of Massachusetts' public records law often falls to those who requested the documents.

Important story by @iamjohnhilliard.bsky.social -- ‘They don’t even pretend to comply’: Mass. agencies, cities, and towns openly flout open record law
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‘They don’t even pretend to comply’: Mass. agencies, cities, and towns openly flout open record law - The Boston Globe When requests are fought or ignored by agencies, enforcement of Massachusetts' public records law often falls to those who requested the documents.

In Massachusetts, the state law’s deadlines for fulfilling records requests can be ignored, workers can conspire to overestimate costs, elected officials can spend years fighting requests in court, or not bother releasing records at all. @bostonglobe.com

A photo of Marcelo Gomes standing at the State of the Union in Washington, D.C. Text on card reads: “Milford teen, Marcelo Gomes, leaves State of the Union after targeted DHS tweet”

Marcelo Gomes da Silva, a Milford teen who was arrested by ICE last May, went to the State of the Union as a guest of Representative Seth Moulton. He left early after a Department of Homeland Security tweet singled him out by name. trib.al/z40q0Yo