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ELECTIONS: As November’s general election approaches, Gateway Cities are grappling with how to improve voter turnout rates that have remained stubbornly lower than the state average, Hallie Claflin reports. |
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GAS TAX: Gov. Maura Healey is calling on legislative Democrats to suspend the state’s 24-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax for two months — a move that House Speaker Ron Mariano has already said he doesn’t support. Sam Drysdale at State House News Service has details. |
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OPINION: Adopting all-party primaries — as proposed by Question 3 on the November ballot — would boost competition in Massachusetts elections, something that the state desperately needs in order to fuel a more responsive state government, writes Tanisha Sullivan, president of the NAACP New England Area Conference. |
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The temperature is continuing to climb in the growing feud between the state’s largest drinking water provider and communities that surround its main water source. |
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The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority is seeking approval from state officials for a high-stakes push to draw an additional 20 million gallons of water per day from the Quabbin Reservoir so that, the agency says, it can serve new communities in the eastern part of the state. |
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It would by far be the largest such request since the MWRA was formed in 1984 — three times as much as the next-highest approved plan to pull more water out of the state’s largest drinking water source in order to serve a new community. |
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The proposal is further stoking tensions that are already playing out in a separate dispute between rural, financially strapped communities that surround the Quabbin Reservoir and the agency charged with providing clean drinking water to its customers mostly in Eastern Massachusetts. The focus of that dispute is the towns’ agreement not to develop land in the Quabbin watershed in exchange for payments in lieu of taxes from the state that grossly undervalue what the land would be worth if the municipalities were able to collect property tax revenue on it. |
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For the MWRA, a quasi-public agency that serves 61 municipalities mostly in and around Greater Boston, the new water withdrawal plan, which requires the green light from the state Water Resources Commission, makes sense all around. |
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As the state pursues more housing and as municipal water sources and private wells suffer from contamination and dwindling supplies due to a two-year drought that’s only now starting to subside, the MWRA believes it can be the answer, selling more high-quality water from a Quabbin Reservoir that can withstand greater withdrawals. |
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Those living near the Quabbin disagree — and are mobilizing to kill the proposal. They fear the precedent such a move would set, and it feeds their sense that the agency will only continue to take the water that they protect and send it east to support growth there while their towns in Central Massachusetts face an increasingly alarming budgetary crunch. |
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“We’re not giving up until there’s fairness,” state Sen. Jo Comerford, a Democrat who represents Quabbin-area towns, said in an interview. “This is not what fairness looks like. This would set a really dangerous precedent — that’s not hyperbolic — that an entity like the MWRA can get basically a lock on the water to use at its discretion without the transparent, accountable public oversight on this precious resource.” |
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Election events: 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 and Jerren Chang of Partners in Democracy. |
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AFFORDABILITY WOES: Heading into an election season in which “affordability” is the defining issue, a majority of Bay Staters agree that Massachusetts is a better place to live than most other states and, simultaneously, that it remains too expensive, according to newly released polling data. Chris Lisinski has more. |
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OPINION: The decision to bypass a traditional community engagement and outreach process represents a missed opportunity for a collaborative journey between the city of Boston and local residents that delivers a White Stadium molded by a shared sense of place and unified sense of purpose, writes Scott Farmelant, principal consultant and owner of Boston Strategic Communications. |
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UNEMPLOYMENT WOES: Problems within the state’s unemployment assistance system predated the upheaval that CommonWealth Beacon documented this year, according to a new report from Auditor Diana DiZoglio that warned of slow payments and long call center waits. Jordan Wolman reports on the new findings and the ongoing lack of any legislative response. |
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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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WEATHER: Get up to speed on this weekend’s Nor’easter set to lash New England’s coast. (GBH News) |
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IMMIGRATION: Quiet anxiety is setting in in New Bedford after federal authorities ramped up immigrant detentions in the South Coast city. (The New Bedford Light) |
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HOUSING: Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville are holding the line on affordable housing requirements in the face of developer pressure and significant housing shortages. (The Boston Globe – paywall) |
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TECH: Amazon plans to start delivering some packages by drone in Massachusetts, the first program of its kind in New England. (WBUR) |
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RATS: Boston is playing host to the second-ever National Urban Rat Summit where experts trade tips on how to stop these pesky mammals. (The Boston Globe – paywall) |
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