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Logan's Framingham remote terminal opens

Logan Airport is opening a first-in-nation remote terminal in Framingham — clear TSA there, board a bus, and arrive at your gate for $9.

Travel

Massachusetts is getting a first-of-its-kind way to go through airport security with the new <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Logan Airport" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2025/11/06/flight-chaos-looms-at-logan-as-faa-cuts-flights" data-vars-content-id="4f758f59-eecc-4933-b776-332706cc7a22" data-vars-headline="Logan&#x27;s Framingham remote terminal opens" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2025/11/06/flight-chaos-looms-at-logan-as-faa-cuts-flights" target="_self">Logan Airport</a> <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Remote Terminal" data-vars-click-url="https://www.massport.com/logan-airport/getting-here/remote-terminal" data-vars-content-id="4f758f59-eecc-4933-b776-332706cc7a22" data-vars-headline="Logan&#x27;s Framingham remote terminal opens" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.massport.com/logan-airport/getting-here/remote-terminal" target="_blank">Remote Terminal</a> in Framingham launching Monday.<ul><li>It lets travelers complete security screening miles from the airport and travel by secure bus directly to the terminal.</li></ul>Why it matters: The concept is a radical departure from the typical Logan experience.

Some Boston commuters brace for "disaster" during World Cup

Commuter Rail riders will face closures, delayed trains, reduced service or all of the above.

Transit

Massachusetts&#x27; transit plans for the <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="World Cup" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/05/27/boston-world-cup-watch-parties-fan-fest" data-vars-content-id="0bf88383-2f21-4c6c-b116-ef8fd693ee1d" data-vars-headline="Some Boston commuters brace for &quot;disaster&quot; during World Cup" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/05/27/boston-world-cup-watch-parties-fan-fest" target="_self">World Cup</a> are derailing commuters&#x27; plans to get to work in Boston at a time when most employers are retreating from hybrid work.Why it matters: The biggest losers of the World Cup matches at Foxborough&#x27;s &quot;<a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Boston Stadium" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/05/13/boston-stadium-gillette-foxborough-world-cup-tickets" data-vars-content-id="0bf88383-2f21-4c6c-b116-ef8fd693ee1d" data-vars-headline="Some Boston commuters brace for &quot;disaster&quot; during World Cup" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/05/13/boston-stadium-gillette-foxborough-world-cup-tickets" target="_self">Boston Stadium</a>&quot; just might be regular Commuter Rail passengers if they can&#x27;t work remotely and avoid the traffic jams and train disruptions.

Healey: "No place for ICE at World Cup" as Trump threatens Logan flights

Gov. Healey fired back at DHS Secretary Mullin's threat to pull customs agents from Logan.

News

Gov. Maura Healey called the Trump administration&#x27;s threat to take customs agents out of Logan Airport &quot;pretty stupid&quot; and &quot;dumb&quot; — and said federal immigration enforcement has no role at next month&#x27;s <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="FIFA World Cup" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/05/27/boston-world-cup-watch-parties-fan-fest" data-vars-content-id="23430ac3-1b04-4a29-a474-175456236a71" data-vars-headline="Healey: &quot;No place for ICE at World Cup&quot; as Trump threatens Logan flights" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/05/27/boston-world-cup-watch-parties-fan-fest" target="_self">FIFA World Cup</a>.Why it matters: About a quarter of Logan travelers are international visitors. Removing customs agents wouldn&#x27;t just restrict arrivals — it could also pull agents who screen for drugs, weapons and fugitives.

Ed Markey will not leave the stage

Markey dominated Worcester's Democratic convention — challenging the case for his retirement.

Politics

Deehan here with Spill of the Hill, my column unraveling Massachusetts politics.<a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Ed Markey" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/05/07/markey-moulton-ma-senate-primary-poll" data-vars-content-id="97d22abf-e76a-47ad-88d4-f0db23bf5a5e" data-vars-headline="Ed Markey will not leave the stage" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/05/07/markey-moulton-ma-senate-primary-poll" target="_self">Ed Markey</a> spent Saturday in Worcester doing what his detractors sometimes insist he can no longer do — energizing a crowd and winning a fight.Why it matters: Markey captured 73% of the vote from more than 4,000 delegates at the Massachusetts Democratic Party convention, well clear of Senate primary rival Rep. Seth Moulton.<ul><li>The vote was lopsided enough that it left a little less room for Moulton&#x27;s central argument that rank-and-file Democrats are ready to move on from the 49-plus-year member of Congress.</li></ul>

2 customers accuse Harvard Pilgrim of having "ghost networks"

Two people are suing Point32Health, accusing it of misleading Harvard Pilgrim policyholders.

Health

Two Massachusetts residents filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Harvard Pilgrim" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2018/05/04/partners-healthcare-harvard-pilgrim-acquisition-1525445206" data-vars-content-id="0ccb29d0-17ee-4393-9188-245b3359e222" data-vars-headline="2 customers accuse Harvard Pilgrim of having &quot;ghost networks&quot;" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2018/05/04/partners-healthcare-harvard-pilgrim-acquisition-1525445206" target="_self">Harvard Pilgrim</a> is skirting laws requiring accurate provider directories.Why it matters: State and federal laws ban &quot;<a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="ghost networks" data-vars-click-url="https://www.propublica.org/article/ghost-networks-health-insurance-regulators" data-vars-content-id="0ccb29d0-17ee-4393-9188-245b3359e222" data-vars-headline="2 customers accuse Harvard Pilgrim of having &quot;ghost networks&quot;" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.propublica.org/article/ghost-networks-health-insurance-regulators" target="_blank">ghost networks</a>,&quot; but <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="several reports" data-vars-click-url="https://www.propublica.org/article/ghost-networks-health-insurance-regulators" data-vars-content-id="0ccb29d0-17ee-4393-9188-245b3359e222" data-vars-headline="2 customers accuse Harvard Pilgrim of having &quot;ghost networks&quot;" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.propublica.org/article/ghost-networks-health-insurance-regulators" target="_blank">several reports</a> in recent years have found that they <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="haven&#x27;t gone away" data-vars-click-url="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2026/attorney-general-james-secures-sweeping-reforms-improving-access-mental-health" data-vars-content-id="0ccb29d0-17ee-4393-9188-245b3359e222" data-vars-headline="2 customers accuse Harvard Pilgrim of having &quot;ghost networks&quot;" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2026/attorney-general-james-secures-sweeping-reforms-improving-access-mental-health" target="_blank">haven&#x27;t gone away</a>.<ul><li>Now two Bay Staters are pointing the finger at the insurer owned by Canton-based Point32Health.</li></ul>

Mass. biotech firms join alliance to counter competition from China

China's fast biotech growth has prompted 27 U.S. companies to join forces.

Business

A group of biotech leaders, including three based in Massachusetts, have joined forces to try to maintain the nation&#x27;s lead on biotech innovation.Why it matters: Unlike China, the United States has no national strategy on biotech innovation — and competitors in China are <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="catching up quickly," data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/29/china-biotech-boom-us-drug-trials" data-vars-content-id="262a1e72-a4c3-4423-8d3c-c627331e490b" data-vars-headline="Mass. biotech firms join alliance to counter competition from China" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/29/china-biotech-boom-us-drug-trials" target="_self">catching up quickly,</a> Patroski Lawson, CEO of the firm KPM Group DC, tells Axios.

Massachusetts midwives, doulas push for funding, cultural shift

Funding is just part of the battle, midwives and doulas say.

Midwives, doulas and maternal health advocates say Massachusetts needs a cultural shift if it&#x27;s serious about expanding services to pregnant patients.The big picture: Massachusetts is home to world-class hospitals, yet Black women are more than twice as likely to die from childbirth-related complications compared to their white counterparts.

Midwives question insurance rates as birth centers ramp up

Mass., like much of the U.S., falls far behind developed nations in healthy pregnancies and births.

Massachusetts stands to get more birth centers in the next year, but midwives and <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="doulas" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/21/doula-maternal-health-crisis" data-vars-content-id="c05fb1f8-cb90-4ec2-939c-54a4268e26de" data-vars-headline="Midwives question insurance rates as birth centers ramp up" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2023/09/21/doula-maternal-health-crisis" target="_self">doulas</a> will struggle to scale up their work without more funding, their advocates say. Why it matters: Massachusetts, like <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="much of the nation," data-vars-click-url="https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/jun/insights-us-maternal-mortality-crisis-international-comparison" data-vars-content-id="c05fb1f8-cb90-4ec2-939c-54a4268e26de" data-vars-headline="Midwives question insurance rates as birth centers ramp up" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/jun/insights-us-maternal-mortality-crisis-international-comparison" target="_blank">much of the nation,</a> lags behind other developed countries when it comes to safe pregnancies and births.

Healey proposes restricting social media access for teens under 16

The bill would limit use of a social media app to two hours a day and block pings during school.

Gov. Maura Healey unveiled her own proposal to limit social media use among teens under age 16.Why it matters: That makes <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="three major competing bills" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/04/08/massachusetts-house-senate-cellphone-ban-social-media-youth-children-schools-healey-bill" data-vars-content-id="32b7e7e0-7a5b-438f-bdeb-c331599090ed" data-vars-headline="Healey proposes restricting social media access for teens under 16" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/04/08/massachusetts-house-senate-cellphone-ban-social-media-youth-children-schools-healey-bill" target="_self">three major competing bills</a> reining in youth social media use on Beacon Hill, with just over three months to hash out a compromise.

Food insecurity hit 40% of Mass. households in 2025, survey suggests

Hunger hit a record high amid inflation, the government shutdown and the state's high cost of living.

A record 40% of Massachusetts households didn&#x27;t have consistent access to food last year, a <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="new survey" data-vars-click-url="http://foodaccessreport.gbfb.org/" data-vars-content-id="cb05730b-ea1b-4bd6-b56a-0da8656ff105" data-vars-headline="Food insecurity hit 40% of Mass. households in 2025, survey suggests" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="http://foodaccessreport.gbfb.org/" target="_blank">new survey</a> from the Greater Boston Food Bank and Mass General Brigham suggests.The big picture: The report estimates that more than 1.1 million Massachusetts households experienced <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="food insecurity" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/14/childhood-hunger-food-insecurity" data-vars-content-id="cb05730b-ea1b-4bd6-b56a-0da8656ff105" data-vars-headline="Food insecurity hit 40% of Mass. households in 2025, survey suggests" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/14/childhood-hunger-food-insecurity" target="_self">food insecurity</a> last year, due to the state&#x27;s high cost of living, inflation and the 2025 federal government shutdown.

Mass. bottleneck for mental health patients in ERs shrinks, but problems persist

ER patients seeking mental health treatment on average spent well over a day waiting for inpatient beds.

More than one-third of people who went to the emergency room for mental health conditions in 2024 spent 12 hours or more waiting for treatment, per a <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="new report" data-vars-click-url="https://masshpc.gov/publications/policyresearch-brief/emergency-department-boarding-commonwealth-massachusetts" data-vars-content-id="55daee36-61b1-4523-ac58-4b8283d229c1" data-vars-headline="Mass. bottleneck for mental health patients in ERs shrinks, but problems persist" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://masshpc.gov/publications/policyresearch-brief/emergency-department-boarding-commonwealth-massachusetts" target="_blank">new report</a>. Why it matters: These patients wait on average more than a day for inpatient beds or other treatment in Massachusetts, among the longest wait times in the nation. Any wait longer than 12 hours is referred to as boarding.

How over 27,000 Mass. residents got medical debt wiped out

The $42 million total amounts to an average of $1,560 per recipient.

Some 27,000 eastern Massachusetts residents are getting letters in the mail with rare good news: They&#x27;re the latest beneficiaries of a debt relief initiative, and some, if not all, of their medical debt has been wiped out.Why it matters: One in eight Massachusetts residents has <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="medical debt" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/14/medical-debt-united-states" data-vars-content-id="3aeb954c-e0ae-49fd-afcb-538690df0655" data-vars-headline="How over 27,000 Mass. residents got medical debt wiped out" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/14/medical-debt-united-states" target="_self">medical debt</a>, per the state&#x27;s <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Center for Health Information and Analysis" data-vars-click-url="https://www.chiamass.gov/assets/docs/r/pubs/2025/Understanding-Medical-Debt-in-Massachusetts.pdf" data-vars-content-id="3aeb954c-e0ae-49fd-afcb-538690df0655" data-vars-headline="How over 27,000 Mass. residents got medical debt wiped out" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.chiamass.gov/assets/docs/r/pubs/2025/Understanding-Medical-Debt-in-Massachusetts.pdf" target="_blank">Center for Health Information and Analysis</a>.<ul><li>Among Black residents, that number is one in five. </li></ul>

Why Mass. hasn't reformed cannabis workplace safety since worker's death

It's been four years since Lorna McMurrey died at a Holyoke cultivation site.

Four years since a Holyoke worker&#x27;s death after inhaling cannabis dust, Massachusetts <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="regulators" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/02/13/massachusetts-cannabis-cultivation-sites" data-vars-content-id="2e7dba20-ef69-40b3-80a3-d8ea4783a09c" data-vars-headline="Why Mass. hasn&#x27;t reformed cannabis workplace safety since worker&#x27;s death" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/02/13/massachusetts-cannabis-cultivation-sites" target="_self">regulators</a> haven&#x27;t imposed new rules or penalties to prevent exposure to the workplace hazard.<ul><li>And they don&#x27;t have the power to do so unilaterally.</li></ul>

People are flushing so much cocaine into Nantucket's sewers

Wastewater testing on the island revealed cocaine concentrations far above national benchmarks.

Nantucket&#x27;s cocaine problem is becoming so apparent that the white stuff is even flowing through the island&#x27;s sewers.Why it matters: Wastewater testing on <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="Nantucket" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2025/12/18/ticks-massachusetts-deer-hunting-expansion-marthas-vineyard-nantucket-alpha-gal" data-vars-content-id="72f189e6-144c-4f63-8082-e77841002e56" data-vars-headline="People are flushing so much cocaine into Nantucket&#x27;s sewers" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2025/12/18/ticks-massachusetts-deer-hunting-expansion-marthas-vineyard-nantucket-alpha-gal" target="_self">Nantucket</a> revealed cocaine concentrations far above national benchmarks — and town officials aren&#x27;t sure why.

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2 customers accuse Harvard Pilgrim of having "ghost networks"

Mass. biotech firms join alliance to counter competition from China

Massachusetts midwives, doulas push for funding, cultural shift

Midwives question insurance rates as birth centers ramp up

Healey proposes restricting social media access for teens under 16