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  • SCC celebrates first-generation student success

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    NORTH MANKATO — Beatriz Rivera wanted to do more than just survive.

    As a first-generation college student attending South Central College, Rivera’s path to higher education began with her family’s journey from Mexico, where her mother left school after the third grade to work on her family ranch, before moving to the United States at age 16.

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  • SCC celebrates first-generation student success

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    NORTH MANKATO — Beatriz Rivera wanted to do more than just survive.

    As a first-generation college student attending South Central College, Rivera’s path to higher education began with her family’s journey from Mexico, where her mother left school after the third grade to work on her family ranch, before moving to the United States at age 16.

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  • State pressured to tap reserves for SNAP benefits

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    BOSTON — Beacon Hill leaders are being urged to tap the state’s $8.6 billion “rainy day” fund to help offset the impact of the federal government’s refusal to fully fund the food stamp program during the shutdown.

    Raise Up Massachusetts, a coalition of unions, community groups and faith leaders, is calling on Gov. Maura Healey and legislative leaders to allocate funding from the state’s reserve fund to “prevent the worst harm from federal cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, education funding, and other critical programs.”


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  • Officials press feds to fully fund SNAP

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    The Bay State’s top Democrats are calling on the Trump administration to release more federal SNAP funding after the White House rolled out a plan to only partially fund the food assistance program.

    In a filing in the U.S. District Court on Monday, Trump’s administration “committed” to partially funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program with $4.65 billion in contingency funds in November. That’s roughly half of the $8 billion a month needed to keep the SNAP program fully funded.


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  • AGs sue to preserve food stamp funding

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    BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell co-led more than two dozen states Tuesday in suing the Trump administration over its refusal to fund food stamps during the federal government’s shutdown.

    In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, Campbell and other Democratic attorneys general ask a federal judge to force the White House to tap emergency reserve funds to prevent roughly 42 million Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients from losing their food benefits beginning next week.


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  • Campbell seeks another term

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    BOSTON — Democratic Attorney General Andrea Campbell is running for reelection, touting her efforts to protect civil rights and consumer protections and filing litigation pushing back against the Trump administration’s divisive policies.

    Campbell, the state’s first Black attorney general, announced Tuesday that she plans to seek another four-year term as the state’s top law enforcement official in the 2026 elections.


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  • State seeks piece of $50B rural hospital fund

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    BOSTON — Massachusetts is chasing after a slice of a $50 billion federal fund created as part of President Donald Trump’s tax and policy bill to help offset the impact of looming Medicaid cuts on rural health care systems.

    The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched its Rural Health Transformation Program last month, encouraging states to apply for a slice of the funding to “reimagine care delivery and develop innovative, enduring, state-driven solutions to tackle the root causes of poor health outcomes specific to rural America.”


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  • FEMA cuts anti-terrorism funding; AGs sue to block move

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    The Trump administration is slashing anti-terrorism funding for Massachusetts and other Democratic-led states that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration crackdowns, drawing a new legal challenge.

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced its annual grant allocations through the Homeland Security Grant Program, which was approved by Congress in response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The funding supports intelligence operations, large-event security, planning, equipment purchases and police training.


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  • Latest MCAS scores prompt calls for reform

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    BOSTON — State education officials and advocates are calling for a renewed focus on academic performance in the public school system after the latest MCAS test results showed most students are still lagging behind prepandemic levels.

    The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the results of 2025 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System exams on Monday, showing that students across the state are still trailing prepandemic achievement levels.


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  • AGs sue over threats to pull sex ed funding

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    BOSTON — Massachusetts is among a group of states suing the Trump administration over threats to pull federal sexual education funding from curricula focusing on gender identities.

    The lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court in Oregon by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and 16 other Democrats, alleges that new conditions imposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to receive the grant funding violate federal law, the separation of powers and Congress’ spending power.


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  • Federal judge blocks Trump’s cuts in FEMA funding

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    BOSTON — The Trump administration can’t block federal disaster relief funding for Massachusetts and other states for refusing to cooperate with immigration crackdowns, a federal judge has ruled.

    The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith in Rhode Island sided with Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and 22 other Democrats who sued to block a Homeland Security policy tying Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster funding to a state’s willingness to cooperate with immigration enforcement.


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  • Federal judge overturns Trump’s Harvard funding freeze

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    BOSTON — A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration’s move to freeze $2.2 billion in research funding for Harvard University was unconstitutional.

    The ruling issued Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs in Boston said the funding freeze amounted to “retaliation, unconstitutional conditions, and unconstitutional coercion” against the Ivy League school for refusing to yield to the White House’s “ideologically motivated” policy demands.


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  • Methuen officials tame rumors of school redistricting

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    METHUEN — It has been more than 25 years since the city’s public school system chose to redistrict neighborhood schools. And, according to officials, it is likely to be at least a few more.

    While school redistricting has been mentioned during recent City Council meetings and a school subcommittee exists to study it, school leaders sought to quell rumors of impending change while also discussing some of the potential benefits, like cost savings on busing, during a meeting last week.


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  • Federal judge rejects challenge to handgun restrictions

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    BOSTON — A federal judge has upheld the state’s ban on the sale of certain types of handguns following a legal challenge by gun rights groups that vow to repeal the ruling.

    In a decision issued Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper rejected claims in a lawsuit filed by the owners of Gunrunners LLC and the Delaware-based Firearms Policy Coalition alleging that the restrictions violate the Second Amendment and are “inconsistent” with the nation’s history of firearm regulation.


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  • Supreme Court OKs Trump’s cuts to research funding

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    BOSTON — Massachusetts leaders are blasting a U.S. Supreme Court court ruling that will allow the Trump administration to claw back nearly $800 million in federal grants for medical and scientific research, saying the move will hurt patients and institutions who rely on the money for lifesaving work.

    A divided Supreme Court on Thursday issued an unsigned order allowing the National Institutes of Health, the largest public funding source for biomedical research in the world, to terminate federal grants linked to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.


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  • Report: Mass. taxpayers to get big tax cut in 2026

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    BOSTON — Massachusetts taxpayers will receive a big break next year under President Donald Trump’s recently enacted spending package, according to a new report.

    The Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan Washington-based think tank, estimates that Bay Staters will see their taxes cut by an average of $5,139 in 2026 under Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill – the third-largest reduction in the nation following Wyoming and Washington state.


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  • Lawmakers seek criminal penalties for impersonating ICE agents

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    BOSTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers are hoping to close a “loophole” in state law that allows people who impersonate ICE agents and other federal authorities to shake down immigrants or sexually assault women to go without punishment.

    The proposal, filed by state Sen. Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester, Rep. Anne Margaret Ferranate, D-Gloucester, and others would make it a crime to impersonate a federal law enforcement official. Under current law, criminal charges can only be filed against someone accused of impersonating a state or local law-enforcement official.


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  • Medicaid cuts create concern for North Shore nursing homes

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    PEABODY — The One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed by President Donald Trump last month is causing concern among residents and caregivers at a local nursing home who rely on Medicaid.

    Medicaid provides health care coverage to low-income individuals and families, and about every six in 10 nursing home residents in America rely on the program to pay for such care, according to KFF, a national non-partisan policy research center.


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  • Trash issues continue to stink

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    Thursday marks two dozen days since Republic Services Inc. workers went on strike.

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  • GOP hopefuls vow to ban ‘sanctuary’ laws

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    BOSTON — A pair of Republicans challenging Democratic Gov. Maura Healey in next year’s gubernatorial election are vowing to push for a statewide ban on “sanctuary” policies if elected, arguing that the state’s immigrant-friendly laws have made it a magnet for the undocumented.

    Republicans Mike Kennealy, who served as former Gov. Charlie Baker’s housing and economic development secretary, and Brian Shortsleeve, a former MBTA head and venture capitalist, are vying for the GOP’s nomination to challenge Healey next year.


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