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  ❤️  Donate Thursday, December 11, 2025 ☀️ Sunny, with a high near 33. Good Morning Boston, It's Thursday. The U.S. Senate is set to vote today on dueling proposals to address the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies that were at the center of this fall's government shutdown. Don't expect either of them to pass.  NPR has more here  on what's going on down in Washington, D.C. Here's a look at the latest news out of the Bay State: ADU, to yieu and yieu and yieu:   Last year, Massachusetts joined  a growing cohort of states  to broadly legalize the building of  accessory dwelling units  across the state. At the time, Gov. Maura Healey's office predicted it would result in 8,000 to 10,000 new ADUs (aka in-law apartments, granny flats or backyard cottages) in Massachusetts over five years, putting a small but cost-effective dent in the state's  200,000-plus unit housing shortage  . Fast forward to yesterday: Healey said  the state ha...

  New from  CommonWealth Beacon UTILITY:  Liberty Utilities, which services tens of thousands of ratepayers in southeastern Massachusetts, wants state permission to  increase gas rates  by an average of 55 percent. The potential dramatic spike contrasts with Gov. Maura Healey’s push to make energy bills more affordable, Jordan Wolman reports.    Interim, or indefinite? No end in sight to Phil Eng’s double duty   December 10, 2025 By  Chris Lisinski "In Phil We Trust" sure seems like it will remain the Healey administration’s unofficial motto for the foreseeable future.  It was almost a year ago, in her annual State of the Commonwealth address, that Gov. Maura Healey made that declaration while boasting about the strides made in fixing the long beleaguered MBTA under Phil Eng, the man she brought on as general manager to run the system.  This fall,...