Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance advocates for fiscal responsibility, transparency, & accountability in government. Email: [email protected]
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Governor Healey claimed today she “never stopped pipelines,” but as AG, she said something very different.
So we put her two statements side by side.
Was she lying then or is she lying now? 👖🔥
Let us know in the comments.
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📰 Our latest op-ed in @CWBeacon makes the case for Project Beacon based on our new research into what that expanded natural gas capacity could mean for Massachusetts ratepayers.
Our study found that Project Beacon could save Massachusetts families and businesses $367 million during an average winter, while strengthening reliability and reducing the region’s dependence on expensive fuel oil when energy demand spikes.
The numbers make the case: Massachusetts can’t afford to skip this upgrade.
Read the op-ed from Executive Director Paul Diego Craney and study author Isaac Orr ⬇️
commonwealthbeacon.org/opini…
Massachusetts didn’t wake up to an “energy emergency” overnight.
Years of expensive energy mandates, constrained natural gas capacity and added charges on ratepayers helped get us here.
Now Governor Healey is temporarily rolling back some of those state-imposed costs, a tacit acknowledgment that her own energy policies are helping drive the affordability crisis.
Temporary relief is not enough. Suspend the mandates, make the relief permanent, and support Project Beacon to bring more reliable natural gas capacity into Massachusetts.
An energy emergency demands a real change in direction.
#mapoli #massachusetts
All in the same edition. Only one gets the editorial.
In today's paper: Residents left in soiled diapers, calls for help unanswered: What happened when this N.J. man bought Mass. nursing homes?; How James Talarico could become the first Democrat to win Texas in decades; and more. trib.al/gEPzkkE
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Democrat governor who sued ExxonMobil asks Trump admin to fast-track natural gas pipeline expansion justthenews.com/nation/state…
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How much could Project Labor Agreements add to the cost of major Massachusetts construction projects, including the Sagamore Bridge replacement?
Our latest study, authored by Fiscal Alliance Foundation Visiting Fellow Paul Bachman, reviewed research on PLA construction costs and found an average 16.2% cost premium across the studies examined. Applied to the Sagamore Bridge’s estimated hard construction costs, the study estimates a potential $293 million increase.
Governor Maura Healey’s Executive Order 641 requires state agencies to review major public construction projects for potential PLA use, while the Sagamore Bridge replacement is already moving forward with one.
🎥 Visiting Fellow Paul Bachman breaks down what PLAs are, what the research found, and what they could mean for the Sagamore Bridge and other major public construction projects across Massachusetts.
#mapoli #massachusetts #capecod
🚨Project Beacon Deserves Same Urgency Gov. Healey Is Seeking for Smaller RARE Expansion.
📢Project Beacon would add four times as much natural gas capacity, but Governor has yet to commit her support.
BOSTON – The Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance responded to Governor Maura Healey’s letter urging the Trump administration to speed federal review of the Algonquin pipeline’s RARE expansion, pointing out that the Governor is weighing in on a smaller project already moving through the regulatory process while remaining silent on the much larger proposed Project Beacon expansion.
The RARE project would add approximately 75 million cubic feet per day of natural gas capacity to the Algonquin system. The project is already advancing through the regulatory process, with FERC beginning its pre-filing environmental review earlier this year. Project Beacon, by comparison, proposes adding 300 million cubic feet per day, approximately four times as much additional capacity.
Last week, the Fiscal Alliance Foundation released a study by Always On Energy Research estimating that Project Beacon could save Massachusetts ratepayers an average of $367 million per winter across natural gas and electricity costs. The study estimates the project could increase Algonquin transmission capacity by roughly 10 percent and provide approximately $76 in net winter savings for a typical gas-heated household.
This falls under @OCPFReports jurisdiction.
Did you have Maura Healey wanting to suspend the gas tax on your bingo card?
Paul Craney and Mike Urban ask what's next for the Healey campaign in this quick clip from the latest MassFiscal podcast.
#Massachusetts #mapoli
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is bad for Massachusetts and bad for democracy. The RCV ballot question was defeated in 2020 but the threat continues.
MassFiscal recently welcomed @KimStrassel to Boston for our special event, alongside @AFPhq.
Executive Director Paul Craney spoke with Kim about RCV's impact in her home state of Alaska and our ongoing efforts to educate the public on the problems associated with RCV and defend the will of the voters who soundly rejected the ballot question. #mapoli
What do you think?
TANGLED WEB BEYOND BELIEF - SPECIAL REPORT Since July 2025 the Healey admin paid an adult foster care provider $5.9M in 778 payments, but Beyond Independent Living LLC had its 501c3 status revoked in 2021 and was dissolved as a corporation in June 2025. #mapoli
Is this a joke?
Mayor Michelle Wu touted Boston’s efforts to tackle climate change in a speech delivered at the UN, highlighting city initiatives as examples of how local leaders can protect the environment while improving residents’ quality of life. trib.al/mTyTx5f
That is the correct answer. Also, Wu, Healey, Warren, & Markey all use Super PACs.
Senator Brownsberger believes that Citizens United was correctly decided. And more. bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/n…
All she does is spend taxpayer dollars. No reforms, no metrics, just spend.
Governor Maura Healey filed a $2.24 billion supplemental budget that would pump more money into the workforce that supports SNAP benefit recipients and establish a new health care fund. trib.al/MFbUE90
Paul Craney, spokesman for the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, hammered the AG for prioritizing foreign wind developers over Bay State ratepayers.
"It's unfortunate the Attorney General is defending the interests of an offshore company instead of the interests of the ratepayers," Craney said.
"Offshore wind is the most expensive energy source, and the Attorney General was completely silent when their turbine blade broke off into the ocean, polluting our ocean, sea animals, and shores. The Attorney General is showing her allegiance to these foreign offshore wind companies instead of the ratepayers of Massachusetts.
Craney was pointing at the July 2024 Vineyard Wind blade failure south of Nantucket, when a GE Vernova blade shattered and sent fiberglass debris washing onto the island's beaches. Campbell issued no public statement.”
Massachusetts AG sues Trump to force approval of four offshore wind projects
massdailynews.com/2026/09/23…
Now that Governor Maura Healey has backed Mike Minogue's position on the gas tax, which of Minogue's policies would you like to see Healey adopt next?
How about repealing the net zero mandates?
If Governor Healey believes Massachusetts families cannot afford another 24 cents at the pump today, she should be willing to take the same hard look at every state mandate driving up the cost of keeping the
lights on and heating our homes.
#Massachusetts #mapoli #energy #netzero
NetZero Climate mandates defraud Mass. ratepayers.
A South Shore heating and air conditioning contractor is accused of defrauding Mass. ratepayers of nearly $8 million in Mass Save funds. trib.al/QIHNmLC
