The tricky calculus of designing a ballot with nine questions
Galvin recuses himself from deciding petition order while leading one of the campaigns
While law sets clear patterns for most of the ballot, officials need to lean more on the skills used by magazine or newspaper layout editors when it comes to statewide questions.
THE CODCAST
What can Mass. learn from New Mexico’s universal child care experiment?
New Mexico is making waves, and generating questions from curious onlookers, by offering universal child care to all families. How is it funded? Is it truly universal? Are there enough caretakers to keep up with demand? And with our astronomically high child care costs, could Massachusetts achieve something similar? Jacob Vigil, the chief legislative officer of New Mexico Voices for Children, joins CommonWealth Beacon‘s Chris Lisinski to dive into the policy, the grassroots campaign behind the changes, and how money from the booming New Mexican oil and gas industry played a key role.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Commonwealth in depth
‘I want a legacy for my family’
How small businesses in Gateway Cities are building wealth — and a tenuous middle class
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
