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Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. |
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This week, reporter Jordan Wolman investigates the cratering return rates of recyclable bottles and cans across the Commonwealth. While customers have indicated that five cents per return isn't enough to incentivize keeping track of empty beer bottles and soda cans, the legislature has been slow to act. |
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Also, the MBTA grapples with its bold electrification goals for buses, state insurance commissioner Michael Caljouw sits down with CommonWealth Beacon to discuss seismic changes affecting the industry, state House Minority Leader Brad Jones announces his retirement after three decades in office, and coastal communities prone to flooding grapple with an existential question: when is it time to leave? |
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Check out those stories below, and, as always, thanks for reading. |
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— The CommonWealth Beacon team |
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| | Out of the 10 states that have a “bottle bill,” including neighboring New York, Vermont, and Connecticut, Massachusetts has the lowest redemption rate. | |
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| | State law requires the MBTA to purchase only zero-emissions buses starting in 2031 and to have the entire fleet transitioned by 2041. Now, to the ire of a key lawmaker, agency leaders want to kickstart a public discussion about whether that hard-to-accomplish change is still in the state’s best interest. | |
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| | Caljouw sat down to discuss how his office is navigating a changing landscape. | |
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| | House Minority Leader Brad Jones will not seek another term, creating a vacuum atop the chamber’s small GOP caucus for the first time since George W. Bush’s first term with major implications on how Republicans work with the Democratic supermajority. | |
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| | Massachusetts is right now engaging in the most robust dialogue in state history around the concept of relocating people, homes, and communities away from places prone to flooding. | |
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This week on the Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith talks with Matt Noyes, director of state and federal advocacy for the Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA). They dig into the Bay State implications of the sprawling bipartisan “meatball” of a housing bill that recently passed the US Senate, and take a look at how efforts at home might interact with federal policy. |
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