Frustrated by ‘prolonged inaction,’ Spilka might backtrack on extending legislative deadline next term
Top Senate Democrat dismayed by lengthy list of unfinished business
Lawmakers still have dozens of major policy decisions to make in the eight remaining weeks of the term, all of which will happen in the lame-duck stretch after Election Day.
Lessons – and opportunities – from starter home ballot question loss
As Democrats across the country celebrated historic election victories as a mandate to tackle affordability, here in deep-blue Massachusetts voters rejected a tangible solution to one of the biggest drivers of our affordability crisis: housing costs.
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
