Published March 30, 2011

Firefighters have rescued a veteran MBTA worker after he fell down a 30-foot shaft at the Charles/MGH Red Line T stop this morning. Expect delays on the line, as the T is busing commuters from Kendall Square to Broadway.

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Federal nuclear regulators will visit the State House today in an effort to reassure Gov. Deval Patrick and other legislators that the region’s nuclear power plants are safe. Just yesterday, Mass. Rep. Ed Markey filed legislation in Washington proposing a moratorium on all new nuclear reactor licenses and license extensions.

New rankings say that Nantucket County is the healthiest of the state’s 14 counties. Not surpisingly, Hampden County is the state’s least healthy, according to the study. As WBUR’s Carey Goldberg writes, “what’s most fascinating about these new stats is the ever-growing awareness that non-health factors — income, education — are striking determinants of our health.”

For-profit health care is expanding in Massachusetts, as community hospitals in Taunton and Lowell expect to join the Steward Health Care System soon.

Many college students make sure to include all of the important food groups in their diet: pizza, Chinese, ice cream and tons of cereal. Of course, that’s not the healthiest way to live. One group of Tufts students found that shopping and eating together allowed them to be healthier and happier.

From Massachusetts to Oregon to Texas, states are searching for ways to cut costs and balance the books. The soaring costs of prisons have prompted prison reforms in many other states and Massachusetts may be watching them as an example.

What we’re following: We’ll continue to report on the shakeup at the state Probation Department, the health of the state and the workings of the Governor’s Council. Radio Boston will look at the state’s plan to increase high school Math education.