Beth Healy

@HealyBeth

Deputy Managing Editor @WBUR, Boston NPR radio. Alum @WBUR Investigations, @BostonGlobe and @GlobeSpotlight. Fact-based, civil convo welcome [email protected]

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Beth Healy@HealyBeth · Jun 5

ICE @EROBoston is holding dozens of detainees in its Burlington office building. Lawyers say people are sleeping on cement floors with a mylar blanket; crammed in a room with a toilet, no sink @WBUR @MiriamWasser wbur.org/news/2025/06/0…

HealyBeth's tweet card. ICE is detaining immigrants in a Burlington office park building that wasn't designed as a holding facility. Lawyers say conditions there are "abysmal" and "unsanitary."

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Beth Healy@HealyBeth · Jul 22

An Afghan interpreter for the U.S. military, applying for citizenship, has been detained by ICE @EROBoston and fears for his life if deported @WBUR wbur.org/news/2025/07/2…

HealyBeth's tweet card. Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a...

Beth Healy@HealyBeth · Jul 22

Boston mayoral candidate Josh Kraft has yet to disclose his 2024 tax return -- in fact, he's not yet filed @evezuckoff @WBUR wbur.org/news/2025/07/2…

HealyBeth's tweet card. In May, the Kraft campaign said it would release his tax returns “in the near future.” But now the campaign says the candidate had asked the IRS for a six-month filing extension.

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Yashar Ali 🐘@yashar · Jul 18

BREAKING via Bloomberg A federal judge in Manhattan has dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump against journalist Bob Woodward and a publishing house over the release of interview recordings from his first term in office.

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Beth Healy@HealyBeth · Jul 18

The great irony - Republicans appear on NPR all the time - because we do serious journalism and cover all sides. They are going to miss the small stations in their districts they’re putting out of business #npr

BBrian Stelter@brianstelter · Jul 18

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1967-2025? Congress has formally clawed back all the future funding for public TV and radio, and now the bill is heading to Trump's desk

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Beth Healy@HealyBeth · Jul 14

Bike lanes are a hot topic in the race for Boston’s top office | ⁦@WBUR⁩ ⁦@am_perdomo⁩ wbur.org/news/2025/07/1…

HealyBeth's tweet card. Bike lanes have cycled into Boston’s mayoral race. Mayor Michelle Wu has established over 15 miles of new bike lanes over the last few years. Her chief rival, Josh Kraft, is challenging the rollout.

Beth Healy@HealyBeth · Jul 11

A good listen here on why public radio matters in small town America nytimes.com/2025/07/11/pod…

Beth Healy@HealyBeth · Jul 6

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/… via @NYTimes

HealyBeth's tweet card. Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.

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Gintautas Dumcius@gintautasd · Jun 20

NEW: Brian Golden, the former Boston redevelopment authority director and ex-state rep., has filed to run for Newton City Council His old campaign account has $27.6K in cash on hand

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Pete Buttigieg@PeteButtigieg · Jun 12

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

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Beth Healy@HealyBeth · Jun 11

Women detainees being held at ICE's Burlington office building are having a particularly grim experience @WBUR @MiriamWasser @EROBoston wbur.org/news/2025/06/1…

HealyBeth's tweet card. For some women, the conditions have been particularly grim. In one case, a woman who had her period was denied access to menstrual products. When she needed to clean up, a guard allegedly gave her an...

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Beth Healy@HealyBeth · Jun 6

Excellent interview here with Republican Rep. Mark Harris of N.C. w/ @WBUR Lisa Mullins @hereandnow @NPR wbur.org/hereandnow/202…

HealyBeth's tweet card. The bill has come under intense scrutiny from billionaire Elon Musk, who called it a "disgusting abomination" and threatened to finance challenges to lawmakers who support it.

Beth Healy@HealyBeth · Jun 3

How public radio covers the news, in disasters and in everyday coverage wvpublic.org/how-a-western-… @NPR

HealyBeth's tweet card. Inside Appalachia Host Mason Adams reached out to Blue Ridge Public Radio News Director Laura Lee to learn how the station operated through Hurricane Helene — while also covering the storm and its...

Beth Healy@HealyBeth · May 30

After ICE raids on the Vineyard, workers are scared -- so are business owners. Will the island's summer tourists have the service they're used to? @wbur wbur.org/news/2025/05/3…

HealyBeth's tweet image. After ICE raids on the Vineyard, workers are scared -- so are business owners. Will the island's summer tourists have the service they're used to? @wbur wbur.org/news/2025/05/3…

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Beth Healy@HealyBeth · May 16

'Disturbing' Worcester police bodycam video released from last week's ICE fracas there @WBUR @simonfrios wbur.org/news/2025/05/1… @WorcesterPD

HealyBeth's tweet card. Worcester City Manager Eric Batista and Police Chief Paul Saucier released three separate videos, depicting officers arriving amid a chaotic scene on Eureka Street.

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Beth Healy@HealyBeth · May 15

A terrific listen (or read) here on longtime friendship at the Vermont-Canada border getting dinged by Trump tariffs and barbs @WBUR @anthonygbrooks wbur.org/news/2025/05/1…

HealyBeth's tweet card. In towns along the northern border, residents lament this new strain imposed on their long cross-border friendship.

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Beth Healy@HealyBeth · May 11

Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk arrived at Logan Airport Saturday night, returning home to Boston 6 weeks after immigration agents swept her to a Louisiana detention center and the day after a Vermont federal judge ordered her released @wbur wbur.org/news/2025/05/1…

HealyBeth's tweet card. A day after a federal judge ordered her release, Öztürk said: "America is the greatest democracy in the world and I believe in those values that we share."

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Beth Healy@HealyBeth · Apr 30

No tolls on Cape bridges, says Gov. @maura_healey wbur.org/news/2025/04/3… @WBUR @samdrysdale5

HealyBeth's tweet card. Gov. Maura Healey shot down the idea of charging tolls on the Cape Cod bridges on Wednesday, after the Mashpee select board's vice chair raised the idea earlier this week.

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