Economic Development Secretary Yvonne Hao is stepping down from her port at the end of the month, with Undersecretary of Economic Foundations Ashley Stolba in line to take over the secretary’s duties on an interim basis, the Healey administration said Tuesday.
Hungry for housing production, public officials are eyeing the massive, mostly state-owned Joint Base Cape Cod, which includes parts of the towns of Bourne, Falmouth, Mashpee and Sandwich.
Two Democrats who have a chance to stamp their mark on Gov. Maura Healey’s $3.5 billion plan to reinvigorate the state’s business climate want the benefits to stretch beyond the Boston metropolitan area.
State officials plan to jump-start the process for creating the administration’s economic development plan next week, a framework that all new governors must produce during their first year in office.
The population of Massachusetts shrunk by nearly 8,000 people between July 2021 and July 2022, a drop of about 0.1 percent, but the newest estimate released in fresh data from the U.S. Census Bureau puts the state’s population ahead of its revised 2020 Census level.
The day before she is to be sworn into office, Gov.-elect Maura Healey continued to build out her Cabinet by naming Yvonne Hao as her secretary of economic development and Jason Snyder as her secretary of technology services and security.
