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DELICATE DANCE: Gov. Maura Healey has a preferred punching bag when it comes to high energy high costs: the utility companies. But that comes with tradeoffs when the administration also occasionally wants to cast the companies as critical state partners. Jordan Wolman digs into the election season two-stepping. |
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RECOUNT: Nearly a dozen colleagues of Sen. Will Brownsberger joined him at Boston City Hall for the recount in his primary election race against challenger Daniel Lander, underscoring the tensions in a race that has become a proxy for Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s tense relationship with Senate leadership. Sam Drysdale reports for State House News Service. |
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OPINION: What Massachusetts needs to reduce duplication and increase collaboration among food organizations is not complicated, even if it’s not easy, writes David Blais, the founder of Framingham-based food pantry Daniel’s Table. The state should make data sharing a condition of receiving state anti-hunger grants, he says. |
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OPINION: Massachusetts schools face a desperate shortage of STEM teachers, writes Kerry Donahue, the executive director of Teach For America Massachusetts. Filling the gap will require targeted funding and recruitment. |
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The surest sign that the election is fast approaching is the volume of donors and organizations who have begun to open their checkbooks. Yet despite the record-tying field of ballot questions going before voters, the money changing hands has not quite soared all the way up into the stratosphere — at least so far. |
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Campaigns supporting or opposing the nine measures on the November 3 ballot raised more than $18 million through the end of August, the most recent deadline to submit financial data to state regulators. Including in-kind donations, or work performed directly for a campaign in lieu of money changing hands, the total value rises to more than $21 million. |
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It’s a massive number, one that reflects the urgent stakes proponents and opponents attached to the ballot-box fights. With two months left until Election Day, the ongoing spending for and against nine different measures might well surpass the record for a single cycle set four years ago. |
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Yet campaigns so far have only raised about three-quarters as much as their counterparts did through the same point in the calendar in 2022 — an election that featured only four questions on the ballot. |
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The latest batch of financial data fills in a gap that stretched for most of the year: Under state law, ballot question campaigns do not need to reveal any new information about their fundraising or spending from the beginning of an even-numbered year until 60 days before the election, a blackout period that lawmakers want to change. |
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Some of the political battle lines are now clearer. Unions are lining up en masse against a business-backed effort to curb state tax collections. Recreational marijuana retailers have coalesced against an attempt to recriminalize the industry. And reform crusaders are willing to put big dollars behind separate but thematically linked proposals to reshape elections and government transparency. |
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Committees have already spent more than $13.7 million advocating for or against the nine questions on the ballot. Other groups burned additional cash on proposals the state’s highest court tossed from contention earlier in the year, including an attempt to revive rent control and a push to reduce the state’s income tax rate. |
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NEW CODCAST: It's easy to think that Massachusetts has health care all figured out, but two recent maternity unit closures, on top of 13 since 2010, are raising concerns as women in these communities struggle with access to care. Hallie Claflin dives into the consequences with Alecia McGregor, assistant professor of health policy and politics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Katie Murphy, president of the Massachusetts Nurses Association. |
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DATA CENTERS: Gov. Maura Healey signed a new executive order subjecting future data center projects to local approval and community benefit agreements before they can advance to state permitting, Alison Kuznitz details for State House News Service. |
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ELECTIONS: Most of Massachusetts's incumbents kept their seats on primary night, but Rhode Island's sitting governor just became the first governor of a US state to lose a primary in eight years. (The Associated press via WBUR) |
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COURTS: A father and his teenage son are suing The Nauset Regional School District, alleging months of racial bullying contributed to the boy’s attempted suicide in 2024. School leaders, the suit says, failed to intervene. (GBH News) |
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ECONOMY: The state’s innovation economy faces mounting headwinds, but experts say Massachusetts is still well-positioned to stay a hub of creativity and entrepreneurship. (MassLive – paywall) |
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LABOR: Nearly 2,000 unionized nurses at Boston Medical Center are voting on whether to authorize a strike, as union contract negotiations stall over pay and workplace safety. (The Boston Globe – paywall) |
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ARTS: North Adams will become the first non-Gateway City to join the "Creative District" pilot program to help build and connect its creative and arts economy. (The Berkshire Eagle – paywall) |
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