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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, Chris Lisinski goes into the details of the Supreme Judicial Court clearing some of the roadblocks to State Auditor Diana DiZoglio's effort to audit the legislature. DiZoglio has indicated she will file a new complaint focused on official legislative budgets, financial audits, “balance forward” line items, and monetary settlements between the branches and current or former employees, though, she says she plans to “go back and ask for additional records.” |
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Plus, a new report finds that patchworks of local regulations are holding up the construction of new accessory "granny flat" units that share plots with preexisting homes, Salem and New Bedford reckon with Trump administration policy shifts in their hopes of becoming essential ports for offshore wind, a Canadian company proposes a natural gas pipeline extension into Mass., and backers of a year-old law allowing some eviction cases to be sealed by request say the option is underutilized by Bay State renters. |
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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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Don’t expect a tidy resolution now that the state’s highest court has stamped an initial mark on the auditor’s long-running crusade to probe the House and Senate. |
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The report argues the permitting gap doesn’t reflect a lack of homeowner interest, but rather a regulatory system that was never designed to handle an influx of development of the small housing units across 351 cities and towns with their own set of permitting rules. |
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Salem and New Bedford both received millions from the state to develop the sites of retired fossil fuel power plants into terminals that would serve as logistics and operations centers for the construction of offshore wind. But wind projects have long been struggling to get off the ground. |
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Enbridge’s announcement is bound to ignite a firestorm and set off a host of thorny questions, while Gov. Maura Healey’s position on natural gas will again be put to the test as the proposal lands amid her reelection campaign. |
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The idea behind the law is to let tenants wipe the slate clean from certain evictions and not have those cases present obstacles to renting an apartment, securing a mortgage to buy a home, or finding employment. |
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Dave Denison was the first editor of CommonWealth magazine and oversaw the publication of its first issue 30 years ago, in the spring of 1996. Although much has changed about the country, the state, and the organization since the 1990s, Denison and current editor Laura Colarusso discuss the enduring mission of creating a more transparent political system for the common good. |
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