Gov. Maura Healey filed a $62B FY26 budget proposal that attempts to address slower revenue growth during the post-pandemic era by relying on a voter-approved surtax to buoy spending decisions and

Governor Healey announced a bond bill that will be the largest infrastructure investment in the public higher education system in decades.

(WJAR) — The Maura Healey administration announced a bill on Tuesday that aims to modernize public higher education in Massachusetts. She made the announcement in Bridgewater at the campus of Bridgewater State University. The $2.5 billion bill will add capital improvements to the UMass System, state universities, and community colleges.

Gov. Maura Healey filed a $2.5 billion borrowing bill Tuesday that would dump cash into Massachusetts’ public higher education system to update aging infrastructure that the first-term Democrat argued has suffered from years of neglect.