On second thought: Late-moving legislative action injects ‘ambiguity’ into ballot questions
Bills to overhaul public records, tax cap law would add significant confusion for voters, who will weigh the same topics in November
Legislative leaders opted not to engage in serious negotiations with initiative petition proponents earlier in the year, when a compromise might have averted measures going to the ballot. And now, they’re weighing last-minute action that could reshape or even upend a pair of decisions voters will make.
THE CODCAST
A new book details how neoliberalism hurt America’s health care
America’s uniquely expensive, uniquely underperforming health system didn’t just result as an accident of history, John McDonough argues in his new book, but was the predictable result of a specific ideological turn taken in the early 1980s — the start of the neoliberalism era.  
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Commonwealth in depth
With public health at stake, many Boston hospitals struggle to meet the city’s air pollution goals
Hospitals in Boston consume far more energy than other buildings, and many rely on fossil-fuel–powered centralized energy systems, making it challenging for the city to meet its 2050 net-zero emissions goal
BY THE NUMBERS
Yet again, legislative competition in Massachusetts will be woeful
Three in five House, Senate races will feature only one candidate on the ballot
From the Archives
On Heritage Road
In the heart of suburbia, anxieties about the new economy
