Jess Machado

Massachusetts is currently housing over 20,000 migrants in emergency shelters throughout the state, providing housing, meals, health insurance, transportation, legal services, cash benefits and even laundry services with a price tag exceeding $1 billion for this year alone.

I met with Justin Thurber two weeks after the November 5th election. When we talked on the phone to set up our meeting, I asked him how things had been since winning his race. The State Representative-elect told me that he had been meeting with many people since his big win.

Last week, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed her Economic Development bill into law, a bill that included Section 269 that many say offered exclusive protection to the Roxbury-based non-profit BlueHub Capital , who is being sued by a group of Massachusetts homeowners for what they say are predatory lending practices. The non-profit is led by one of Maura Healey's oldest friends, Elyse Cherry.

BlueHub Capital, the Massachusetts non-profit lending company whose CEO Elyse Cherry is a long-time friend of Governor Maura Healey, made $314,500 in the sale of a home owned by a family who used their services to save their home from foreclosure when the property was purchased by the owners of the Encore Casino to make way for the project.

An email to a homeless family living at one of the Massachusetts hotels providing emergency shelter sheds light on the process for the eventual relocation of the family.Fall River Reporter has obtained a copy of an email sent to a family at the end of October that gives notice to the family havi

Fall River Reporter has obtained exclusive photos that give a look at deplorable conditions inside one of the Massachusetts hotels being used to shelter migrants.The photos show insect and rodent issues at the Days Inn, located at 159 Pelham Street in Methuen. A homeless family staying at the h

Attorney General Andrea Campbell's office has filed an amicus brief in the case involving Massachusetts homeowners suing BlueHub Capital for what they claim are predatory lending practices, a big win for the families suing the company.In the documents filed in Suffolk Superior court yesterday, C

A local daughter has reached out to the community asking for help to heat her family home.

Inflatable holiday decorations that filled the Somerset town green have gone missing.

While researching the Massachusetts migrant crisis, I was able to connect with people who were born and raised here in the state but found themselves homeless, living in the hotels that have been turned into migrant shelters. One single mother agreed to talk to me, under anonymity, about her experie