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Ella Adams

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  1. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Ella Adams, State House News Service

    Governor's Council incumbents sweep primary challenges (opens the original)

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    All four governor's councilors who faced a Democratic primary challenge Tuesday survived and will now coast unopposed through the general election. The primary wins mean the dynamics and perspectives behind the council — an eight-member body that votes on judges, Parole Board members, commutations and pardons — will likely remain the same as they've been over the past two years. Only District 2 Councilor Tamisha Civil and District 7 Councilor Paul DePalo will face Republican challengers on Nov.

  2. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Ella Adams, State House News Service

    State's first climate chief leaving Healey administration (opens the original)

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    Climate Chief Melissa Hoffer will be leaving the Healey administration later this year to become president of Vermont Law and Graduate School. Hoffer's presidency in South Royalton, Vermont, will begin Dec. 1, and Gov. Maura Healey will be naming a successor before Hoffer departs, the administration said. "I am honored and thrilled to join Vermont Law and Graduate School as its next president," Hoffer said in a statement. "VLGS has long been a national leader in environmental and public interest

  3. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Ella Adams, State House News Service

    Mass. sends third wildfire crew to Minnesota to fight ongoing fires (opens the original)

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    A third crew of wildland firefighters from Massachusetts is heading to northern Minnesota for about two weeks to fight ongoing fires, the Healey administration announced Monday. Firefighters on the 15-person team are from both the Department of Conservation and the Department of Fish and Game's Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. The group includes an 11-person wildland suppression crew and a four-person engine team. Five fires continue to burn in the Boundary Waters region of northern Minnesota

  4. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Ella Adams, State House News Service

    It's the 10th anniversary of early in-person voting in Mass. Some question if (or when) it's worth it (opens the original)

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    When voters begin casting their ballots at the polls this weekend ahead of the Sept. 1 primary, they'll be partaking in an early voting method that hit the Bay State a decade ago — the relevance of which some local clerks now question. Early in-person voting became an option for voters in 2016, after Gov. Deval Patrick signed a law in May of 2014 applying the practice to biennial state elections only. The law dictated that the early voting period begin 11 business days preceding the election, an

  5. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Ella Adams, State House News Service

    Mass. libraries got flooded with book ban requests. A new law aims to stem the flow (opens the original)

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    When Andrea Fiorillo became co-chair of the Massachusetts Library Association's Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibilities Committee in 2019, she remembers there being fewer than 10 challenges to library materials in Massachusetts. By 2025, there were 229 challenged titles, Fiorillo said on Monday. Fiorillo, who is also a member of the Mass Freedom to Read Coalition, noted a change around 2021, "when reports started to come in of Massachusetts libraries receiving entire lists of books to b

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