Meghan Volcy

For more context, read @meghanvolcy.bsky.social's report from earlier this month:

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Healey's 'State of the Commonwealth' Boasts About MBTA Turnaround, Promises to Fill Budget Shortfall - Streetsblog Massachusetts "We’re going to close the T’s budget gap so Phil and his team can keep cookin’," the Governor promised.

Reporter @meghanvolcy.bsky.social has a summary of last night's State of the Commonwealth speech:

Healey’s ‘State of the Commonwealth’ Boasts About @mbta.com Turnaround, Promises to Fill Budget Shortfall -
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MBTA Communities Act Holdouts Are Losing State Funding - Streetsblog Massachusetts "We will take action as appropriate by the end of the month" against towns that maintain segregationist zoning rules in violation of state law, warns Attorney General Andrea Campbell.

MBTA Communities Act Holdouts Are Losing State Funding - by @meghanvolcy.bsky.social #mapoli
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For Cambridge Bike Safety, the Political is Personal - Streetsblog Massachusetts With year-round organizing, Cambridge Bike Safety helps bike-friendly candidates win local elections and advance their agenda for safer streets.

Reporter @meghanvolcy.bsky.social has a new in-depth profile of @cambbikesafety.bsky.social, and how it became a force to be reckoned with in the city's politics:

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Rearranging the Cabinet: Transportation Sec. Monica Tibbits-Nutt Stepping Down, Replaced By MBTA GM Phillip Eng - Streetsblog Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Monica Tibbits-Nutt is leaving the Healey administration. Governor Maura Healey announced this morning in a press release that Tibbits-Nutt will be stepping down from her p...

Rearranging the Cabinet: Transportation Sec. Monica Tibbits-Nutt Stepping Down, Replaced By MBTA GM Phillip Eng - from @meghanvolcy.bsky.social:
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Our loved ones died biking in Cambridge last year. Boston-area candidates need to follow the facts on bike lanes. - The Boston Globe Some candidates are displaying a staggering lack of regard for people who cycle, victims of traffic violence, and everyone who cares about safer roads.

Roadway violence victims' family members rebuke politicians for campaigning against safety:

"Some Boston-area political candidates are ignoring the overwhelming research consensus on bike lanes"
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Malden Debates a New Greenway To Connect the Northern Strand Through Its Downtown - Streetsblog Massachusetts The City of Malden is making plans to connect the western part of the city that a river once flowed through to the Northern Strand Community Trail via a new shared-use path – but one city councilor is...

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From the CEO: Congress defunds public media The latest announcements and updates from WBUR

Congress voted to cut all federal funds for public media. For WBUR, it means we'll lose at least $1.6 million annually.

Yet the news won't stop, and neither will we.

Our commitment to thoughtful, fair and trustworthy coverage is undiminished.

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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

This entire criminal process started when our client Cassie Ventura had the courage to file her civil complaint in November 2023,” says Wigdor. “Although the jury did not find Combs guilty of sex trafficking Cassie beyond a reasonable doubt, she paved the way for a jury to find him guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution. By coming forward with her experience, Cassie has left an indelible mark on both the entertainment industry and the fight for justice. We must repeat – with no reservation – that we believe and support our client who showed exemplary courage throughout this trial. She displayed unquestionable strength and brought attention to the realities of powerful men in our orbit and the misconduct that has persisted for decades without repercussion. This case proved that change is long overdue, and we will continue to fight on behalf of survivors.”

Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s lawyer has released a statement:

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Black Transportation Justice: How Mobility Affects Housing, Health, and Freedom in a Modern World - Streetsblog Massachusetts Part 3 in a three-part series.

How Mobility Affects Housing, Health, and Freedom in a Modern World - Part 3 in reporter @meghanvolcy.bsky.social's series on Black history and transportation justice:

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Tonight: MassDOT Hosts Online Hearing for Mystic River Car-Free Bridge Project - Streetsblog Massachusetts MassDOT will host a virtual public hearing this evening for a project that would install a new car-free bridge over the Mystic River from Draw Seven Park in Somerville to the Encore Casino riverwalk i...

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Thank you for sharing my piece!

Black Transportation Justice: A Closer Look at Intersectional Labor Movements - Streetsblog Massachusetts Throughout the 20th century, Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor and feminism along the way.

Throughout the 20th century, Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor and feminism along the way.

Part 2 of @meghanvolcy.bsky.social's series on Black transportation justice:
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A bar chart showing four different budget proposals from (from left) Gov. Healey, the House, the Senate, and the House-Senate supplemental budget compromise.

Legislature’s Fair Share Budget Compromise Gets @mbta.com Closer to A Balanced Budget
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Black Transportation Justice: From Forced Movement to Freedom - Streetsblog Massachusetts Part one of a three-part series.

For #Juneteenth, reporter @meghanvolcy.bsky.social has produced a three-part series on the link between Black history and transportation justice. Read part one here:
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Judge orders release of Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil Khalil will be released on bail while his case challenging his deportation orders plays out in the courts.

During a phone hearing on Friday, Judge Michael Farbiarz of the U.S. District Court for New Jersey said that the government's attempt to continue to detain Khalil was "highly, highly, highly unusual."

Remember that authoritarians are always trying to create crises or take advantage of existing crises as a "state of exception," which gives them more power and abrogates any established restraints.

I don’t mean to be sarcastic about this but every columnist, political scientist, and law professor who ever bought into these people being federalists should be spaced

MBTA Hosts Its First Public Hearing for Lynnway Redesign Project - Streetsblog Massachusetts Nearly three years after winning a $20 million federal grant, the MBTA hosted its first public forum on Wednesday evening for a proposed transit-focused redesign of the Lynnway, a major highway that s...

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Column: What Does the Freedom of Movement Really Mean? Reflections from the Youth Bike Summit - Streetsblog Massachusetts While dozens of young people, many of them young people of color, celebrated each others’ accomplishments at the Youth Bike Summit earlier this month, there was also a heaviness at the weekend’s event...

Column: What Does the Freedom of Movement Really Mean? By @meghanvolcy.bsky.social - mass.streetsblog.org/2025/06/13/c...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Judge says Trump illegally called up National Guard to assist with LA protests and must return control to governor.

Mamdani surges in new poll, leading Cuomo for first time in New York mayor's race The former governor has topped every voter survey since entering the race, but the democratic socialist is gaining on him.

Mamdani is now ahead of Cuomo with just two weeks until the Democratic NYC mayoral primary, a new poll found.

The Kids Are Alright: A Weekend of Connection, Curiosity, and Collective Action at the Youth Bike Summit - Streetsblog Massachusetts In the last weekend of May, young people and their adult allies from all over the country came together at Roxbury Community College for this year’s Youth Bike Summit, hosted by the Youth Bike Council...

We just published a detailed recap of the 2025 Youth Bike Summit from reporter @meghanvolcy.bsky.social –

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Protected bike lanes have a near-magical ability to produce cyclists.

This new study of 28 US cities finds that census block groups w/protected bike lanes expanded bike commuting almost 2x faster than those w/standard bike lanes & >4x faster than those w/o new lanes.

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Target Lets Go Pair of Executives Who Had Supported DEI Programs Target Corp., facing financial headwinds and pushback over its diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, has dismissed two executives who have backed DEI efforts, including a chief legal and compl...

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the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies

White South Africans arrive at Dulles as refugees under Trump order The arrival of 49 Afrikaners under an executive order that alleges they’ve faced racial discrimination restarts refugee admissions that were suspended for all other groups by the Trump administration.

Breaking news: A group of nearly 50 White South Africans landed as refugees Monday, coming to the U.S. under a humanitarian designation meant for people fleeing war or persecution that the Trump administration has suspended for all other groups worldwide.

in addition to him repeating insane racist conspiracy theories, it occurs to me that the reason he has time to hold long press conferences everyday is that he doesn’t actually do anything