BREAKING: A proposed break at the pump for Massachusetts drivers has been stripped from a $2.35 billion spending bill as lawmakers prepare for a key vote.

#NEW: Following her final debate against #Republican Mike Minogue @mikeminoguema, #Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey @MassGovernor refused to honestly answer whether she knew about her disgraced former aide LaMar Cook’s violent criminal history, including 2001 driven shooting charges, before hiring him. We reported at the Herald @bostonherald in December that a public records request proved Mass. State Police informed her of this. I asked Healey about this clearly and directly several times, to which she kept falling back on “firing him before he was even arraigned” on his serious state drug and gun charges in October 2025. Cook was arrested yesterday on federal #SNAP and wire fraud charges. #Massachusetts #Healey #Minogue #LaMarCook #politics #debate #mapoli

🚨 BREAKING: Former Massachusetts state official, Lamar Cook, charged w/ SNAP fraud.   “The alleged conduct is simply egregious…I find it disturbing that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts could not prevent this from happening” – US Attorney Foley   Defendant, who was on pretrial release for state drug and gun charges, allegedly lied to obtain over $540 per month in SNAP benefits. 🔗 Read more: justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/forme…

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Campaign finance records show Eversource employees, including CEO Joe Nolan, the CFO, multiple VPs, government affairs and community relations staff, an attorney, and others, have given nearly $50,000 over time to Gov. Maura Healey’s re-election committee. Fourteen of those donations arrived since September 10, including the legal maximum $1,000 from Nolan on September 21. Matching amounts went to Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll the same days. The timing lines up with Healey’s push for faster federal review of a gas pipeline expansion Eversource supports. Nolan has said he recently had a friendly chat with Healey and Driscoll. At an industry conference he told the room her criticism of utility “greed” and profits is just election-year noise. He said they have good relations, the knocks are “nothing personal,” and after the election “the volume is going to go right down.” He has given the annual maximum to her in most recent years. Nothing here is illegal. These are personal checks from employees, not company money, and the individual limit is $1,000 a year. Still, Massachusetts ratepayers face some of the highest electric bills in the country. The governor appoints the DPU commissioners who approve Eversource’s rate cases, and the company keeps reporting strong profits and large executive pay packages. Nolan’s own words point to a simple preference: a known regulator and quieter criticism once the campaign ends. Any particular reason the people running the utility that keeps sending you those bills would rather she stay in office?

After mentioning President Donald Trump @realDonaldTrump 32 times, per my count, in her debate against #Republican Mike Minogue @mikeminoguema, #Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey went on a lengthy tirade continuing to insist that #Trump “is on the ballot this year.” I also asked her why she didn’t mention any possible blunders she recalls in her career, as Minogue did, when asked by the moderator. She failed to mention any again. #Massachusetts #debate #Healey #Minogue #Democrats #Republicans #Trump #politics #mapoli

After #Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey @MassGovernor signed an executive order to remove climate-mandate charges from utility bills for three months and blaming President Trump for high energy costs, Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll @KimDriscollMA says she and Healey are not pointing the finger at #Trump too much. The Healey-Driscoll administration has blamed Trump for high gas prices, high energy prices, extremely high levels of outmigration among businesses and residents, a weakening business climate in the state, inflation, and federal funding cuts, among others. She also, like Healey, denied the governor ever stopped two natural gas pipelines from entering the state, something Healey has been seen bragging out in a widely circulated video from 2022. #Massachusetts #Trump #Healey #Driscoll #energy #politics #mapoli

While Donald Trump drives up energy costs, I'm doing everything I can to save you money. Ahead of a cold winter, I’m declaring a State of Energy Emergency to boost heating assistance, help middle-class families pay for oil, and take charges directly off your bills.