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GASSED UP: The top executive at Eversource doesn’t sound too concerned with the rhetoric coming from the corner office, telling attendees at an industry conference he expects Gov. Maura Healey to turn down the “volume” on utility criticism post-election. Jordan Wolman reports. |
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OPINION: Three op-eds respond to a recent commentary piece by Massachusetts Senate counsel James DiTullio, who argued that criticism of the Legislature’s productivity is misplaced because we are one of just seven states that allow for multi-issue “omnibus” bills. Scotia Hille of Act on Mass and Jonathan Cohn of Progressive Mass argue that these sweeping legislative vehicles are an affront to good lawmaking, and former state representative Jay Kaufman takes aim at what he describes as broader legislative dysfunction. |
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OPINION: Addressing the state of Massachusetts schooling requires a new approach, writes Chad d’Entremont, executive director of the Rennie Center for Education Research & Policy. We must build an education system capable of finding better solutions over time: developing new approaches, testing them in real schools, learning what works and under what conditions, and continually refining and spreading what we learn. |
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Three red states have launched a broadside against laws in Massachusetts and two other states that protect providers of abortions. |
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The attorneys general in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama filed a lawsuit at the end of September against California, Massachusetts, and New York. The suit asks the US Supreme Court to strike down the “shield laws” allowing providers in the three blue states to send abortion medication to people in states with stricter abortion laws. |
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There are two lawsuits taking aim at the shield laws. One is filed against individual providers, including the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project, and one is targeting the states themselves. |
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The “extremity” of the inter-state clash was expected, said Boston University law professor Nicole Huberfeld on The Codcast. Huberfeld is chair of the BU Health Law Program and co-director of the BU Program on Reproductive Justice. |
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“The fact that the states have drifted so far apart in their positions and are so willing to make it part of their political theater and culture wars — maybe that part of it wasn't quite as predictable,” she said, “but the high degree of conflict and its intractability was entirely predictable.” |
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Shield laws, Huberfeld noted, are a relatively new creation. After the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Gov. Charlie Baker issued an executive order prohibiting executive branch cooperation with out-of-state investigations targeting lawful abortions in Massachusetts. |
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The Legislature codified the order into law that fall, and Gov. Maura Healey signed an updated shield law in 2025 expanding protections. Massachusetts’ challenged law not only prevents cooperation with other states looking to discipline Bay State providers, it also limits the release of sensitive data, allows prescription labels to display a practice name instead of an individual physician’s name, and codifies a state requirement for abortion care to be provided in emergencies when medically necessary. |
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States with strict abortion laws have been trying to enforce their laws against providers in other states. It’s thrust the country into the messy legal question of whether the 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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“I wish I didn't have to make this analogy, but I have researched it and it's the best I can come up with,” Huberfeld said. “This is a lot like the way state laws looked before the Civil War, where slavery was either legal or banned, and there was litigation over this question of who could reach into the borders of other states over trying to, for example, retrieve enslaved people back to the place where they had been enslaved.” |
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The US Supreme Court may take up the question directly or allow it to play out in the lower courts first, Huberfeld said, but the nation’s highest court will likely be faced with this high-stakes jurisdictional puzzle. |
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“There is no clear answer as to what happens when states refuse to cooperate,” she said, “and in fact have laws that are not only incontrovertibly but irreconcilably in conflict with one another.” |
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Should Massachusetts adopt all-party primaries? Join CommonWealth Beacon in Haverhill tonight at 7:00 p.m. for a live debate on ballot Question 3 featuring Danielle Allen for "Yes on 3" and Jordan Berg Powers for "No on 3." Register here. |
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DEBATE: Gov. Maura Healey and GOP challenger Mike Minogue sparred in their debate Thursday night over many issues, but Healey is ultimately banking on a simple strategy to secure a second term: Tie Minogue to the deeply unpopular President Trump. Jennifer Smith has more. |
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HEALTH CARE: Scores of former Steward doctors, nurses, and other clinicians face the prospect of financial ruin because the in-house malpractice insurer was looted by Steward executives as the for-profit chain spiraled downward. (The Boston Globe – paywall) |
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PERENNIAL LIAR & CARPETBAGER JOHN DEATON!
DO YOUR RESEARCH! VOTED 3 TIMES IN 20 YEARS!
ELECTIONS: John Deaton, the Republican challenging US Sen. Ed Markey, is making a pitch for himself as a more independent voice. He’s walking a difficult line, trying to distance himself from the deeply unpopular President Donald Trump. (WBUR)
MUST READ! R. TYLER MACALLISTER IS A TRUMPER! DO YOUR RESEARCH! |
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ELECTIONS: Republican R. Tyler Macallister, challenging US Rep. Bill Keating’s bid for a ninth term, is clashing with the incumbent over offshore wind, immigration, and cost of living. (The New Bedford Light) |
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LAW ENFORCEMENT: Advocates are frustrated that state public safety officials haven’t issued required reports analyzing racial profiling in traffic stops since 2024. (State House News Service via GBH News) |
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SCAMS: An upcoming Boston biotech conference website promotes involvement from industry leaders. But the website is actually a front for a criminal malware group. (The Boston Business Journal) |
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