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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, the Supreme Judicial Court released a decision that blocks a ballot measure seeking to cut the income tax rate. Chris Lisinski and Jennifer Smith break down the decision and its implications. |
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Plus, Massachusetts needs more small homes, a new report finds; the Springfield mayor calls for an end to the region’s fare-free bus system; the once-united front opposing a strict rent control ballot measure is starting to crack, as one powerful real estate group says it’s open to a compromise bill; and Massachusetts will begin offering a $10 million tax credit for so-called sustainable aviation fuel. |
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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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| Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice Serge Georges, Jr. at the John Adams Courthouse in Boston. (Maria Pemberton/CommonWealth Beacon) |
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| | In a blockbuster ruling just as ballot measure campaigns submit their final signatures, Massachusetts’s highest court cut the fuse of a revenue bomb that was set to blow $5 billion out of the state budget. An initiative aiming to cut income taxes is blocked from the ballot because of errors in the attorney general’s summary. |
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| | Massachusetts has become “a victim of our own affluence,” said Andrew Mikula, the report’s author. “It’s like we forgot how to build smaller homes that can be more affordable for folks.” |
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| | Officials and transit advocates have criticized the mayor’s approach and questioned whether the youth disturbances at Union Station can be attributed to the availability of free bus rides. Some have cited the success of the fare-free program and instead called for more policing. |
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| | With just two weeks until a controversial rent control ballot measure could be locked in, a flurry of negotiations — and pockets of sustained resistance — puts Beacon Hill in a tricky position. |
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| | Authorizing a pilot program like this is inviting a larger debate about how Massachusetts should weigh the complicated tradeoffs associated with reaching ambitious climate targets, especially for hard-to-decarbonize sectors like air travel. |
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For generations, it was virtually guaranteed that American children would out-earn their parents. But as Raj Chetty explains in this special live episode of The Codcast, recorded at the recent WBUR Festival, that dream is fading. What factors are contributing to economic stagnation? How can we increase upward mobility? How do these trends vary across neighborhoods, race, gender, and immigration status? |
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