Former chair of the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission seeking compensation for alleged retaliation.
Year: 2026
Boston’s White Stadium will now move ahead without delay, even as opponents remain concerned about the controversial construction project.
Boston’s White Stadium will now move ahead without delay, even as opponents remain concerned about the controversial construction project.
Massachusetts voters will decide in November whether to make big changes to the state’s primary elections. But it’s not a first-in-the-nation experiment: several other states, including California, already have similar systems in which all candidates appear on the same primary ballot and the top two advance to the general election, even if they’re from the same party. This week on The Codcast, Chris Lisinski interviews Andrew Sinclair, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California about how the Golden State’s primary framework came to be, what the effects have been, and what lessons Massachusetts might take.
Early in-person voting no longer as common in Massachusetts after the pandemic and rise of mail-in ballots.
“It’s not that our current system is good. It’s that this alternate one is worse,” says Jonathan Cohn, policy director for Progressive Mass.
Efforts to block Boston Mayor Wu’s proposal to transform White Stadium into a $325 million professional soccer stadium were rejected.
The state-funded rates compensate child care centers who care for kids from low-income families. Providers say low rates are contributing to instability.
Beacon Hill is poised to rein in shady energy companies that rip off customers by signing them up for electricity at lower costs and raising prices later.
The MBTA is preparing to launch a limited fleet of battery-powered cars a decade after a vote to electrify the commuter rail system, but the pace and price of the project has surprised lawmakers and transit advocates alike.