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🥶Still very cold, with highs in the 20s and lows in the single digits. Sunset is at 4:54 p.m.

Let’s take a look at what Massachusetts could be spending its money on next year. Gov. Maura Healey’s proposed budget calls for no new taxes and a 4% increase in spending over the current budget. By law, Massachusetts budgets must be balanced.

A few of the changes: MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program, would no longer cover GLP-1 shots (like Ozempic) for weight loss and would put a cap of $1,000 on dental coverage for adults. Healey’s budget also calls for $37 million for pre-K programs in Gateway Cities and would allow for traffic cameras to be used for enforcing speed limits in school zones and construction zones. GBH’s Katie Lannan has a more detailed breakdown of Healey’s budget proposals here. 

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Four Things to Know

1. Vineyard Wind can resume work to get its wind farm up and running, a federal judge in Boston ruled this week. Construction is about 95% complete, but had been halted in December after the Trump administration claimed that the project — along with a handful of other offshore wind farms along the East Coast — posed national security risks.

But administration officials did not sufficiently explain why finishing the project would be a national security threat, especially since they did not shut down the turbines that are already up and running, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy said.

2. Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is laying off 6.3% of its workers, about 33 people, in an attempt to cut costs. “It is with a heavy heart that we must take this difficult step,” the museum’s leadership said in a statement.

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Officials from the union representing the museum’s workers said they will bargain with leadership to try to avoid layoffs. “Workloads at the Museum are already high and cutting back on the very staff members who make the MFA, Boston such a great institution is a blow both to the affected individuals and to the institution itself,” union officials said in a statement.

3. Starting Sunday, American travelers going through airport security without a Real ID will have to pay a $45 fee. The money will go toward covering extra identity screenings. About 65% of Massachusetts residents have Real IDs on their licenses or state IDs, according to data from the state’s Department of Transportation. Passports qualify too. Not sure if your license or state ID is a Real ID? Look at the top right corner. If there’s a star inscribed in a yellow circle, it qualifies.

If you don’t have a Real ID, you’ll have to make an in-person appointment at a Registry of Motor Vehicles office (or a AAA branch if you’re a member) and bring documents that include your full social security number, proof that you’re in the U.S. legally, and proof of Massachusetts residency. You can also fill out a form and pay the fee online before your trip to save a bit of time at the airport.

4. Today marks one year since American Airlines flight 5342 collided with a military helicopter over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people, including six people from the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood. The Skating Club of Boston is having a public memorial ceremony at the Boston Common Frog Pond today at 5 p.m.

The ceremony will commemorate the lives of skaters skater Jinna Han, 13, and her mother Jin Hee Han; skater Spencer Lane, 16, and his mother Christine Lane; and coaches Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, husband and wife whose son, Max Naumov, is competing on the U.S. Olympic team in Italy next month.

Should Massachusetts pass laws around how kids and teens use social media?

By Katie Lannan, GBH News state house reporter

Massachusetts could be next in a growing list of states to put up guardrails around youth social media use. Gov. Maura Healey used her State of the Commonwealth address last week to tease new legislation that she says will help curb the addictive nature of apps like Instagram and TikTok.

Healey hasn’t filed the full bill yet, so a lot of the specifics are still unknown. But her office is describing what she has in mind as strict new requirements for kids and teens under 18, including mandatory age verification and parental consent. And Healey wants what she calls “addictive features,” like notifications and continuous scrolling, to be disabled during certain hours (likely overnight and during the school day.)

It’s not something the Legislature has tried to specifically regulate before, but it’s not brand new terrain either. Healey says her proposal will align with standards that Attorney General Andrea Campbell already put forward a year ago.

Campbell filed a bill blending two concepts — regulations on social media companies and a ban on student cellphone use during the school day. The state Senate passed a bell-to-bell school cellphone ban based on Campbell’s proposal, though they left out the social media component, at least for now.

So how would Massachusetts enforce regulations against giant, international companies like Instagram and TikTok?

Healey has suggested steep fines. If we take Campbell’s bill as an example: the AG proposed fines of up to $5,000 per user for violating the age verification, consent or use limit requirements. Campbell also wanted social media platforms to have to warn young users about the negative effects of social media on social, emotional and physical health. Violations of that provision could cost up to $1 million a day under her bill.

For other states that have gone down this path, it doesn’t seem like the enforcement question is the biggest challenge. Several states’ laws have been challenged in court on First Amendment grounds — the argument being that restricting minors’ access to social media is essentially a restriction on their speech. Some of those laws have been temporarily or permanently blocked by the courts.

Of course, just because the governor files something, there’s no guarantee the Legislature will pass it, or that they’ll give her the exact bill she wants. But when Healey announced the idea in her State of the Commonwealth speech, she received a lengthy round of applause, suggesting there is some enthusiasm behind it.

If lawmakers do take up the measure, it will likely spark significant debate, touching on issues like youth mental health, free speech and cybersecurity risks.

Dig deeper: 

-Kids carry the internet in their pockets. Are schools teaching them how to use it?

-The trending ‘miracle fix’ for anxiety: Why beta blockers are suddenly everywhere

-Spotting deepfakes: MIT Museum says ‘look again, look closely’