NEW: The Massachusetts House, no stranger to scandal, is now requiring mandatory harassment and discrimination training for all employees.

But the office meant to address complaints of harassment has remained leaderless for years.

My latest: bostonglobe.com/2024/06/02/met… #mapoli

Relatedly, totals just came in for Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭's Vatican trip.

Total cost came in at $21,449.18 for Wu + staff

Healey Italy trip: Hotels, transportation costs surpass $30k in public funds bostonglobe.com/2024/05/31/met…

The House & Senate committees on climate change could hardly have more urgent work to tackle. But neither has had a single bill referred to it this session.

The panels come with leadership stipends of tens of thousands of $.🤯 Emma Platoff Laura Crimaldi bostonglobe.com/2024/05/31/met…

1 of every 5 of the Mass. Legislature’s committees have not held a single hearing or considered one bill this session, Emma Platoff + Laura Crimaldi found. Taxpayers are paying their leaders — who say they serve in an advisory capacity — at least $380,000 bostonglobe.com/2024/05/31/met…

The Massachusetts House is poised to pass a bill that would add 200-plus liquor licenses in Boston in a bid to fix inequities in how alcohol is sold in the city. bostonglobe.com/2024/05/30/bus… via Shirley Leung and Diti Kohli

NYC Transit President Rich Davey has been picked to be the next CEO of Massport. He's a familiar face to many people in Boston. bostonglobe.com/2024/05/29/bus… via The Boston Globe

I don't know how that's going to work, but I'll let you know if and when I learn. In the interim, I'd like to say a huge, heartfelt thank you to everyone who made time to watch us--ie me, Katie Lannan, & Saraya (suh-RAY-uh) Wintersmith--when you could've been doing something else instead 2/x

On a recent night, it was déjà vu at Logan Airport's Terminal E, as adults and children sprawled out to grab some shut-eye while travelers whisked by with their luggage, en route to Dublin or Doha, Istanbul or Zurich. More from Danny McDonald: bostonglobe.com/2024/05/24/met…

Take two: Months after a state panel failed to agree on a substitute for Massachusetts’s controversial state seal, the state Senate voted to create another commission (with another $100K in funding) to propose a new seal, flag, and motto bostonglobe.com/2024/05/24/met… via The Boston Globe

Abroad, Governor Healey and Mayor Wu talk climate change in harmony. At home, real change is messier. Samantha J. Gross
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Senators filed out of the chamber with two amendments left to debate after alarms started going off at the State House

BREAKING: The Senate budget debate was interrupted by alarms at 10:43 pm announcing an emergency in the building. Senators and stuff all evacuated. #mapoli

Should a state panel approve three pardon requests she made Thursday, Maura Healey will have granted more pardons in roughly 17 months as governor than either Charlie Baker or Deval Patrick did across each of their eight years in office bostonglobe.com/2024/05/23/met… via The Boston Globe

NEW: Gov. Maura Healey is attending the White House state dinner tonight with her partner, Joanna Lydgate. She headed down to D.C. this afternoon #mapoli whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

As inspector general, Glenn Cunha investigated retirees who broke the rules on returning to work. Then he did it himself, paying back $17K after he said he mistakenly exceeded the cap on what he could earn while collecting his $101K pension. bostonglobe.com/2024/05/23/met… The Boston Globe

Is Josh Kraft contemplating challenging Mayor Michelle Wu in 2025? Many Boston political insiders seem to think so. My latest for The Boston Globe: bostonglobe.com/2024/05/22/met…

At Joe Biden's Seaport fundraiser, Yo-Yo Ma (and his cello) just walked past the room where press are holding outside the event #mapoli

Massachusetts state officials said Monday that the voter-approved surtax on high earners has generated more than $1.8 billion in revenue this fiscal year — with still three months left to go — blowing past state projections bostonglobe.com/2024/05/20/met… via The Boston Globe

Scoop: GBH News general manager Pam Johnston told staff this morning she is leaving the station. Her departure comes after some employees criticized her management style amid an aggressive digital push and GBH warned employees of potential layoffs. bostonglobe.com/2024/05/20/bus…