On Beacon Hill, with a reputation for opacity and top-down leadership, swapping sitting senators for first-time progressives may have limited utility when it comes to vote count. But Tuesday sent the signal that local representatives perceived as unfriendly to the city’s goals should expect rockier roads in future primaries.
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The well-intended legislation was aimed at addressing persistent racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps, but what Beacon Hill perhaps didn’t foresee was the greater financial pressure it would place on municipal budgets as sluggish state aid growth that has not kept pace with inflation, strict limits on local tax increases, and rising costs continue to trap many local governments between a rock and a hard place.
Minogue will need to overcome heavy odds to unseat Healey, who starts the race widely favored to win reelection.
Koh will face Republican Micah Jones in November. If Koh wins, as he is heavily favored to do, he would be Massachusetts’s first Asian American congressperson.
A superior court judge found there was “no legal or logical support” for allegations of conflict of interest.
We all need care as we age. Adam Scott leads New England’s largest nonprofit provider of senior care and living communities. He says demand is rising as the Commonwealth’s average age continues to increase. This week on Health or Consequences, John McDonough of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Paul Hattis of the Lown Institute talk with Scott about how the broader health care crisis is impacting long-term care.
The move comes amid broader tensions around climate and energy policy in Massachusetts and deep turnover in Healey’s Cabinet.
Massachusetts is facing a behavioral health access crisis that’s largely fueled by provider shortages across all settings.
$15.3 million in tax credits will be used to turn vacant or underutilized commercial properties into residential units
“The bottom line is the issues before the United States Supreme Court would only affect the general election,” said Secretary of State William Galvin.