Beth Healy

Beth Healy

@bethhealy.bsky.social

Business Editor - The Boston Globe Former Managing Editor - Local News @WBUR, Boston’s NPR. Alum at Globe/Spotlight Team

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Beth Healy
@bethhealy.bsky.social

The biggest stock holding in Harvard's giant endowment? SpaceX - $2.2 billion worth. It's not roiling the campus like some past investments have @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/22/b...

bostonglobe.comHarvard campus shrugs as endowment scores big on Elon Musk - The Boston GlobeHarvard’s $2.2 billion stake in SpaceX has elicited little reaction on campus, despite Elon Musk’s call to defund the university and his support for President Trump, who has tried to cripple it.
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‘Fake workers’ infiltrated a Bain Capital Ventures portfolio company. Its a growing threat, experts say @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/14/b...

bostonglobe.com‘Fake workers’ infiltrated a Bain Capital Ventures portfolio company. It’s a growing threat, experts say. - The Boston GlobeAI is supercharging all kinds of cybersecurity threats, but at a gathering of law enforcement and security specialists at Boston College Law School, the biggest worry focused on people.
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Anonymous social media provocateur turns into AI ‘news’ poster - meet Simon Pacheco, 36, a software engineer @bostonglobe.com @aidanryan.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/10/b...

bostonglobe.comThis anonymous news site has rankled Wu and other progressives. Here’s the Boston man who runs it. - The Boston GlobeMass Daily News, a right-wing, largely AI-generated website, has attracted tens of thousands of social media followers and fueled viral media cycles targeting City Hall and Beacon Hill.
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In 1st debate with Gov Healey, Minogue says it ‘doesn’t matter’ who is president. Curious how that lands w/ Boston region leaders of science and medical and academic institutions, + business owners and workers in many industries @bostonglobe.com Larry Edelman www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/09/b...

bostonglobe.comHealey blames Trump on the economy, Minogue blames Healey, and the facts support some of both - The Boston GlobeIn their first debate, the candidates for governor spun two very different economic narratives.
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It might be hard to believe Boston could need a bigger convention center than the current cavernous one. But @bostonglobe.com Jon Chesto reports the Seafood Expo North America (and others) may go elsewhere because it's not big enough www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/01/n...

bostonglobe.comIs fourth time a charm for Southie convention center expansion? - The Boston GlobeAlso in this edition: Why Mass. rents are out of whack, Healey weighs new tax break, Gillette celebrates 125th anniversary.
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50 years since the Hancock tower was built… And the windows famously shattering to the ground… @bostonglobe.com https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/29/multimedia/hancock-tower-50-anniversary-wind/

bostonglobe.com‘People were terrified by it’: Looking back at the windy road that led to the Hancock Tower opening, 50 years later - The Boston GlobeBefore the John Hancock Tower was an architectural marvel — a gleaming rhomboid stretching nearly 800 feet above Boston’s Back Bay — it was architectural mayhem.
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Fabulous listen + read here on the latest "American Dream" piece from @simonfrios.bsky.social @wbur.org - this one on freedom, and the views of established Chinese immigrants in the Boston area. w/ reporting also from @ciciyu.bsky.social www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...

wbur.orgFor Quincy's Chinese community, the American dream lives on, with caveatsInterviews with Chinese immigrants suggest the allure of the U.S. is being put to the test by a torrent of immigration restrictions under President Trump, and the emergence of China as the world’s sec...
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Obama on Trump’s efforts to censor the media: “You can’t do that and say that you are still living in a democracy,” he said. “That’s foundational.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/21/m...

bostonglobe.comObama warns White House media ban threatens a foundation of American democracy - The Boston GlobeFormer president Barack Obama criticized President Trump’s latest clash with mainstream media on Monday, arguing that barring news organizations from the White House because of unfavorable coverage cr...
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The main house in the Kennedy compound was rented for a birthday party by an infamous ex-con CEO. The snafu is the latest twist in a saga over control of the house, which is owned by the nonprofit Kennedy Institute @bostonglobe.com @leungboston.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/21/n...

bostonglobe.comA Kennedy family feud is unfolding over who should control the Hyannis Port compound - The Boston GlobeThe clan has been sorting out how the compound’s main house got rented out for a birthday bash for disgraced Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski.