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  ❤️ Donate Thursday, October 29, 2026 ☀️ Sunny, with a high near 68. Good Morning Boston, It's T-minus five days until Election Day in the midterms and NPR has a new national map of the competitive House races to watch . But let's start with the local news: WEALTHY TRUMPER MIKE MINOGUE COULDN'T MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO PROVE THAT HE LACKS READING COMPREHENSION.....SUGGEST HE READ THE BILL! MIKE MINOGUE DEFENDS TRUMP'S ICE GESTAPO ABUSE! On ICE: Massachusetts sheriffs are asking Gov. Maura Healey to consider a change to the recently implemented PROTECT Act — something they say they hoped to keep from becoming a political issue. (Spoiler alert: it became a political issue.) Here's what to know if you're just catching up: The letter of the law: Last week, 12 of the state's 14 sheriffs — 10 Democrats and two Republicans — signed a letter asking Healey to consider a tweak to the law to allow their offices to notify ICE about individuals charged with violent crime...

  The Saturday Send Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. This week, Gov. Healey waded into an escalating battle between towns along the Quabbin Reservoir and Greater Boston’s water provider when she urged the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to “more fully recognize” those small, rural communities. Her letter to the agency comes on the heels of a CommonWealth Beacon report that chronicled the tensions bubbling between state officials and Quabbin communities. Jordan Wolman follows the story . Plus, Massachusetts is ramping up legislative efforts to increase housing supply across the state – except in Boston , where an independent zoning code makes it an outlier in the Commonwealth; the Senate is relaunching its push to allow many 18-year-olds to be tried in the youth justice system, not adult courts; in Massachusetts, predicting the future comes with paperwork, and the supernaturally inclined don...