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NURSES STRIKE: A negotiating stalemate between Mass General Brigham and thousands of nurses and home care clinicians spilled into Gov. Maura Healey’s office Monday, as she pushed for a compromise ahead of a historic strike this week. Alison Kuznitz of State House News Service has more. |
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OPINION: To address the growing health care affordability crisis, Massachusetts must look at how to control hospital costs while maintaining the high-quality care that has long defined our state’s health care system, write Eileen McAnneny, president and CEO of the Employer Coalition on Health, and Michael Bailit, president of Bailit Health. They say other states, including neighboring Rhode Island, point the way. |
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The US Supreme Court’s final stretch before its summer recess ended last week with a flurry of rulings on high-profile cases, including birthright citizenship, the independence of the Federal Reserve, trans athletes, and mail-in ballots. |
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More ideologically split than in prior terms, the highest court in the nation often divided cleanly along political lines, and its conservative majority prevailed 6-3 in more than a fifth of its rulings this session. |
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Massachusetts was actively engaged on many of the most important cases, with some of them running through the New England federal courts and Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s office often wading in, typically with a coalition of blue state attorneys general. |
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With opinions in hand, here are some cases decided this year with direct ties to Massachusetts policy interests. |
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DECARBONIZING HOSPITALS: Hospitals in Boston consume far more energy than other buildings, and many rely on fossil-fuel–powered centralized energy systems, making it challenging for the city to meet its 2050 net-zero emissions goal, report Anastasiia Boltkova, Hayes Botnick, Quyen Nguyen, and Ying Niu of Northeastern University’s School of Journalism. |
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OPINION: Public water systems in 99 cities and towns across the Commonwealth have exceeded the state’s legal limit for PFAS. By passing “An Act to Protect Massachusetts Public Health from PFAS,” Massachusetts can join every other state in New England in phasing out these toxic “forever chemicals,” argues Connor Read, Westwood’s town administrator. |
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THE CODCAST: Child care costs in Massachusetts continue to top national rankings. Meanwhile, New Mexico has made child care essentially cost-free. Jacob Vigil, chief legislative officer of the advocacy group New Mexico Voices for Children, joins Chris Lisinski on The Codcast to discuss how his state got there and what lessons the Commonwealth could learn. |
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| Scammers are getting smarter—and Bay Staters are paying the price. Criminals are using cryptocurrency ATMs to commit fraud, stealing people's retirement savings and costing Bay Staters millions of dollars a year. It’s time to crack down. Pass a ban on crypto ATMs to prevent scams and protect Bay Staters hard-earned money. Learn more at aarp.org/ma |
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LEGISLATURE: The Senate is poised to take up youth social media regulations that differ from those the House passed months ago. As the topic draws national attention, digital rights advocates in the state are cautiously getting on board. (State House News Service – paywall) |
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MAYORAL TROUBLE: Brockton Mayor Moises Rodrigues could face a criminal charge of assault and battery after two students brought complaints against him to Brockton Public Schools in recent months. (GBH News) |
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SENATE RACE: As older Massachusetts voters weigh their choice in the September Democratic primary for US Senate, some say they are judging Sen. Ed Markey, soon to be 80, through the lens of their own experience growing older, balancing questions about stamina and longevity against his experience and his repeated declarations that he’s never been more energized. (The Boston Globe – paywall) |
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IMMIGRATION: Attorneys for the Plymouth County sheriff’s office and the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts sparred in court over whether the sheriff must release health care records related to immigrant detainees in his custody. (The New Bedford Light) |
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WORLD CUP: In May, MBTA general manager Phillip Eng projected confidence that the T’s commuter rail system would sell out of their roughly 20,000 train tickets to Gillette Boston Stadium per match. With one match remaining, how close has the MBTA come to that projection? (MassLive – paywall) |
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