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HOUSING: The Senate's economic development bill, which lawmakers have teed up for a vote this week, includes a provision that would require municipalities to allow duplexes as-of-right on all residentially zoned lots. Jennifer Smith dives in. |
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ECONOMY: The Fed said economic activity in New England “continued to expand” thanks to the World Cup but that stressors remain. Increases in tourism and retail spending in New England were contrasted with increased demand for assistance among the region's low- and moderate-income households. Colin A. Young from State House News Service has the details. |
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OPINION: The recently passed House bill touted as transparency legislation is anything but that, write Frank Bailey, president of the Pioneer Public Interest Law Center, and Mary Connaughton, director of transparency at the Pioneer Institute. |
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Let's start with a statistic — one many people might find sobering. Between 2013 and 2023, Massachusetts lost 60 percent of its reporters. To put that number into context, across the US during the same time period, roughly two-thirds of the states fared better. In New England, only Connecticut was worse. |
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Depending on where you live in the Bay State, you may have access to at least one public radio station or a hyperlocal digital newsroom that covers your town hall, the school board, and local businesses. People who live in and around Boston have two National Public Radio stations to choose between and the Globe, which still publishes award-winning investigations and thoughtful community news, even if staff has shrunk and the paper itself is covering fewer communities than it did in the past. |
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While several hyperlocal newsrooms have launched in communities like Brookline, Newton, and New Bedford in the last half decade, there is an information gap forming: Many residents across the Bay State — especially those outside of Greater Boston and in less populous, lower-income areas — live in what are known as news deserts or areas without a credible source of information about their municipal government, civic life, or even their broader community. |
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This week on The Codcast, editor Laura Colarusso sits down with a trio of guests to understand the landscape: Javier Marin, the executive chairman and founder of El Planeta, a leading Spanish-language news organization based in Boston; Sophie Culpepper, a staff writer at Nieman Lab, a website dedicated to helping journalism adapt to the changing economic and technological landscapes; and Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University and cohost of the What Works: The Future of Local News podcast. Together, they unpack the nuances of the information ecosystem in Massachusetts. (Marin and Kennedy are members of the CommonWealth Beacon advisory board.) |
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HIGH ENERGY: Ratepayer advocates are concerned by provisions in the Massachusetts House and Senate energy affordability bills that would subject moderate-income customers in some of the state’s poorest communities to new income verification requirements in order to receive certain Mass Save benefits. |
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OPINION: It was 30 years ago this summer that Gov. Bill Weld famously plunged, fully clothed, into the Charles River to promote new legislation aimed at cleaning up state waterways. Laura Jasinski of the Charles River Conservancy says we’ve made much progress since then, but must do more to make the river fully swimmable. |
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IMMIGRATION: Large-scale immigration hearings called "mega masters," where a dozen or so defendants are called into a courtroom at a time, are taking place in Chelmsford as the Trump administration steps up deportation efforts. (WBUR) |
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LAW ENFORCEMENT: Worcester’s city manager is recommending that the city not adopt a civilian review board for the police department despite public pressure and the US Department of Justice finding that the department had a pattern of excessive force and sexual misconduct. (Worcester Guardian) |
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EDUCATION: Boston Public Schools has seen its enrollment decline by 3,000 students in the last two years. The decline is being attributed to lower birth rates and the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration. (The Boston Globe – paywall) |
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CHILD CARE: An $800,000 grant to the United Way of North Central Massachusetts will allow Heywood Healthcare to begin offering free child care to employees with financial need. (Worcester Business Journal) |
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ENERGY: Gas prices climbed to an average of $4 a gallon as the US and Iran step up attacks. The average a year ago was $3.14 a gallon. (WCVB) |
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