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SEA LEVELS: The US Army Corps of Engineers and the City of Boston are ready to outline 20 projects designed to protect the most flood-prone parts of the Hub from rising sea levels. Jordan Wolman reports on the draft plan and the question marks that remain about who will foot the bill. |
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BALLOT QUESTIONS: A controversial push to repeal the 2016 legalization of recreational marijuana survived a legal challenge, and officials then unveiled the order in which all nine ballot questions will appear before voters. Chris Lisinski details the record-tying milestone. |
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ABORTION: The House will vote Wednesday on a fast-moving proposal to remove limitations on abortion later in pregnancy, a measure top Democrats said would ensure "reproductive health care decisions are made exclusively by the patient and her doctor." Alison Kuznitz reports for State House News Service. |
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OPINION: A ballot question that would have established statewide rent control was nixed by the Supreme Judicial Court on a technicality, but that should not be the last word on steps to rein in rents, says Omar Ocampo of the Institute for Policy Studies. He urges the Legislature to take up a compromise that was gaining traction before the SJC ruling that would give local communities the option to adopt a rent control plan. |
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Democrats on Beacon Hill really don’t like the idea of voters taking matters into their own hands when it comes to cutting taxes. |
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After months of legislative leaders slamming a would-be ballot question that would have cut the state income tax — and then making no effort to hide their glee when the Supreme Judicial Court booted it from the ballot on a technicality — a couple dozen Massachusetts state senators have now set their sights on a second tax-reform ballot question poised to go before voters. |
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A majority of senators are coalescing around a late-term push to repeal the law known as Chapter 62F, which would both wipe out the statutory artifact that four years ago forced Beacon Hill to return billions of dollars to taxpayers and also neuter a measure set to go before voters this fall. |
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Sen. Jason Lewis, a Winchester Democrat, filed an amendment to a wide-reaching economic development bill up for debate this week that would strip Chapter 62F from the state’s books, in the process inviting incendiary anger from groups that want government to control its spending habits. |
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Already, the amendment has drawn 19 other cosponsors. With Lewis, that represents half of the 40-member Senate. And Lewis told CommonWealth Beacon there are more senators who backed the idea but are not listed as official cosponsors — seemingly enough to ensure the measure has the votes needed to pass. |
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“We have more than a majority in support of the amendment,” Lewis, who is not running for reelection, said. |
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It’s not yet clear if Senate President Karen Spilka and her leadership team will get on board or will instead encourage members of their caucus to back down from what could become a contentious political fight over tax policy. The change would also need buy-in from the House, whose top Democrats have historically chafed at the tax cap law but have not recently expressed any interest in changing or eliminating it. Unless lawmakers are confident they can achieve a veto-proof majority, Gov. Maura Healey would need to support the maneuver as well. |
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But if the nascent idea does win Senate passage, it would open up another front in the Legislature’s public-relations battle against citizens and interest groups seizing lawmaking power for themselves through the ballot question process. |
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Jim Stergios, executive director of the Pioneer Institute and a chief proponent of the tax cap reform ballot question, called Lewis’s amendment “a creative level of contempt for the voters.” |
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NEW CODCAST: This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon editor Laura Colarusso discusses the impacts of news deserts on communities around the state with Javier Marin, the executive chairman and founder of El Planeta, Sophie Culpepper, a staff writer at Nieman Lab, and Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University and cohost of the What Works: The Future of Local News podcast. |
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TRANSPORTATION: Phil Eng is showing no signs of giving up his double duty as interim transportation secretary and MBTA general manager, Ella Adams reports for State House News Service. |
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OPINION: In the hunt for economic competitiveness and attracting highly-skilled workers, Massachusetts shouldn’t forget about the underutilized talent already in the Bay State, writes Steven Pedigo, co-founder of CivicSol, an economic development and public strategy firm. |
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RED BOXES: Several Massachusetts Democrats running for higher offices are using a back-door trick known as "red boxing" to leave hints for super PACs on how to campaign on their behalf, despite a prohibition on coordination between candidates and the dark-money groups. (MassLive) |
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POLICE: Worcester city manager Eric Batista drew blowback for resisting calls to create a civilian board that would oversee the local police department, despite a nonpartisan report last year that suggested doing so. (GBH News) |
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RED LINE: Commutes that once took less than 20 minutes might now take more than two hours during a week-plus shutdown of Red Line trains north of Park Street, frustrating riders who have already endured prior disruptions in the name of critical infrastructure work. (The Boston Globe – paywall) |
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PRISONS: Leaders of the state's criminal justice system, including the Department of Correction commissioner, recently traveled to Norway and Northern Ireland to learn about the vastly different model for incarceration in those nations and how Massachusetts could reimagine the aging women's prison in Framingham. (WBUR) |
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SURTAX: Massachusetts hauled in $3.38 billion in revenue from the surtax on wealthy households in the most recent budget cycle, a 13 percent increase from the prior year, as supporters continue to tout the levy's success. (State House News Service – paywall) |
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