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| | National Grid is strengthening its systems and preparing crews for winter weather to help deliver safe, reliable energy communities depend on. |
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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, CommonWealth Beacon hosted a debate on ballot Question 3 and the effort to bring all-party primaries to Massachusetts. Danielle Allen, a Harvard University professor who founded the group advancing Question 3, and Jordan Berg Powers, chair of Voter Rights MA, which is opposing the ballot question, represented the two sides. The debate highlights ongoing disagreements over how to fix the lack of competitive elections in the Commonwealth. Hallie Claflin recaps the event. |
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Plus, proposed changes to the 2030 Census could drastically undercount Massachusetts residents, with impacts rippling out into inaccurate employment rates, health care statistics, and billions of dollars lost in federal funding; and there is once again a delay in the procurement of new Red Line cars, but the MBTA has not yet set an estimated completion date. |
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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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| At Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Danielle Allen, a Harvard University professor who founded the group advancing Question 3, and Jordan Berg Powers, chair of Voter Rights MA, which is opposing the ballot question, face off in a debate. (Camila Ulian/CommonWealth Beacon) |
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| | Danielle Allen, a Harvard University professor who founded the group advancing Question 3, and Jordan Berg Powers, chair of Voter Rights MA, which is opposing the ballot initiative, faced off in a debate about all-party primaries, which is shaping up to be perhaps the most controversial of the nine ballot questions that will appear before Massachusetts voters in November. |
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| | The change, if implemented, would “dramatically and inaccurately favor southern states where many northern residents, sometimes called snowbirds, spend some or all of the months of December through March, despite spending a majority of their time voting in and paying taxes to northern states like Massachusetts,” Jessie Partride Guerrero, director of data services at the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, testified. |
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| | A project already pockmarked with delays and growing costs will once again stretch on longer than MBTA officials hoped, this time due to federal scrutiny of components shipped from China. |
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Also, as early voting begins, here’s everything you need to know about the nine ballot questions you’ll be asked to weigh in on. |
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The legal challenge comes as the country considers the messy legal question of whether reproductive care services are being provided where the patient is — which may be a state with a ban — or where the abortion medication is issued. |
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