Healey names new climate chief after Hoffer’s departure
Aladdine Joroff will take over the position as Healey enters second term
Aladdine Joroff, an attorney who has held roles teaching at Harvard and served as Boston’s climate policy director, assumes the post as Healey heads into a second term fraught with complicated climate and energy issues.
By undercutting gas pipeline expansion, Massachusetts risks making an energy affordability problem worse
Natural gas is not an obstacle to a clean energy future; it is the proven, affordable, lower-emission backbone that supports renewables with flexible, around-the-clock power.
PODCASTS
What does a blue wave mean in Massachusetts?
It’s a wrap on elections in Massachusetts, and the Democrats have kept a hold on almost all their levers of power in the state. But there was still plenty of controversial policy for voters to weigh in on. This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith talks with Talia Lissauer of the Berkshire Eagle and Ella Adams of the State House News Service about election week, starting with a late-breaking ballot question result. They dig into the slew of ballot questions, the regions with competitive races, and what it means for areas without much down-ballot action.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Commonwealth in depth
The Dean of Massachusetts mayors
Leominster bills itself as ‘a city on the move,’ but it hasn’t elected a new mayor in more than three decades
BY THE NUMBERS
Here’s why you should view polling results on ballot questions differently than polls on races between candidates
The share of respondents saying they favor a question is a better predictor of the election outcome than the gap between ‘yes’ and ‘no’
From the Archives
On Heritage Road
In the heart of suburbia, anxieties about the new economy
