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❤️  Donate Monday, November 17, 2025 🌤️  Mostly sunny, with a high of 43. Good Morning Boston, It's Monday. A quick reminder that  the partial Red Line closure between North Quincy and Braintree  continues this week through Sunday, Nov. 23. The MBTA is urging riders to instead take the commuter rail's  Fall River/New Bedford ,   Kingston  or  Greenbush  lines — which will be free between Boston and Braintree. There are also free shuttle buses stopping at each closed station, but the T says commuters should expect a trip downtown to take "at least" an extra 35 minutes if they use the buses. Now, let's get to the news: The shutdown's lingering LIHEAP effect : Temperatures are expected to drop just below freezing overnight this week in Boston. However, as WBUR's Amy Sokolow reports, nearly 160,000 Massachusetts households that rely on the  Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program  to heat their homes are still waiting for ...

  ❤️  Donate Tuesday, October 28, 2025 ☁️  Cloudy and cool, with a high of 52. Good Morning Boston, We're officially four weeks (and counting) into the federal government shutdown, and it could claim another victim as the weather turns colder: heating assistance. Here's what you need to know: Warming worries:   Usually by now, states like Massachusetts would have received an influx of money from the federal government to disburse to families in need of help with their heating bills. It's called the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (or LIHEAP) . And starting Nov. 1, those families would be able to use that assistance to get their electric, gas or fuel oil bill paid for, in whole or in part. But WBUR's Miriam Wasser  reports  that the money from the feds hasn't shown up — and that could leave many people in the cold. This assistance delay is "unprecedented," Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, told...