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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 Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is requesting permission to draw an additional 20 million gallons of water per day from the Quabbin Reservoir to serve new communities. It is by far the largest such request since the MWRA was formed in 1984, and is further stoking tensions between the agency, which oversees the state's largest source of drinking water, and the towns surrounding the Quabbin. Jordan Wolman reports. |
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Plus, the state's unemployment agency subjected out-of-work residents to hour-long wait times for phone assistance, delayed payments, and poor access to in-person support, a new report from Auditor Diana DiZoglio reveals; a majority of residents think the Commonwealth is both one of the best states to live in and one of the worst for affordability; Gateway Cities — some of the state’s most disadvantaged and diverse urban communities — consistently have some of the lowest voter turnout rates in Massachusetts; and, as voters prepare to weigh in through Question 9 on whether to retain a sweeping 2024 gun control law, the Supreme Judicial Court prepares to hear a case challenging local officials' process for determining an individual's "suitability" for carrying a firearm. |
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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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| Land around the Quabbin Reservoir is off-limits to development and other activities in order to protect the drinking water source. |
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| | The part of the plan that’s arguably generating the most blowback is the process the MWRA is deploying to win approval from state officials. |
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| | The auditor’s report unveils how even before the agency was thrust into turmoil with record-breaking poor performance during a time of a relatively stable job market, out-of-work Massachusetts residents weren’t receiving the help they needed in a timely fashion. |
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| | People who are finishing their education are almost twice as likely to consider leaving Massachusetts in the next five years, quantifying a dynamic many have long suspected in a state that welcomes crowds of college students every year. |
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| | Cities like Worcester — where the poverty rate is twice as high as the state’s — may have trouble getting people to the polls this November. The state’s most disadvantaged and diverse urban communities often have some of the lowest voter turnout rates. In the last midterm election year, nine of the 10 municipalities with the lowest voter turnout were Gateway Cities. |
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| | Under the version of the state gun law in place at the time, as well as the sweeping 2024 gun law that retooled many of the state’s firearms laws, local licensing officials like police chiefs can consider a broad range of evidence to determine whether someone is suitable to be granted a license to carry. |
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Election event: Voting like your life depends on it |
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Worcester County reported a 67 percent voter turnout rate in 2024. What — if anything — does this tell us about overall health in Central Massachusetts? |
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On Tuesday, October 6, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Hallie Claflin will be in Worcester to discuss the connection between civic participation and wellbeing with Elana Brochin of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations, Casey Burns of the Coalition for a Healthy Greater Worcester, and Jerren Chang of Partners in Democracy. |
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| Massachusetts is growing and reliable energy helps make that growth possible. National Grid is investing in the energy infrastructure that powers our homes and businesses, while supporting new housing, new jobs, and economic growth across the Commonwealth. | In Massachusetts, it all starts with safe, reliable energy. |
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Organized labor has been out in force on ballot measures — recently literally trying to secure bargaining power through the ballot — and that means manpower, mobilization, and money funneling toward a set of policy measures that the Legislature has waved away. This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith looks at unions and direct democracy with two guests.
Nick Juravich, associate professor of history and labor studies and associate director of the Labor Resource Center at UMass Boston, breaks down where we sit in the history of unions and ballot efforts. Then Chrissy Lynch, head of the […] |
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