Question 3 debate highlights disagreements over fixing the lack of competition in Mass. elections
As the controversial ballot question draws big political names on both sides, CommonWealth Beacon hosts a debate on the effort to overhaul the Bay State’s primary system
Danielle Allen, a Harvard University professor who founded the group advancing Question 3, and Jordan Berg Powers, chair of Voter Rights MA, which is opposing the ballot initiative, faced off in a debate about all-party primaries, which is shaping up to be perhaps the most controversial of the nine ballot questions that will appear before Massachusetts voters in November.
Three responses to James DiTullio’s Commentary on legislative productivity
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Why three red states are suing Mass. over abortion
The legal challenge comes as the country considers the messy legal question of whether reproductive care services are being provided where the patient is — which may be a state with a ban — or where the abortion medication is issued.
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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
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New poll finds strong voter support for auditing the Legislature holding steady
Seventy-two percent of voters back the law, exact same share that approved it in 2024
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