Question 3 would eliminate the ability of Bay State parties to police the use of their party labels by candidates in elections and sever the only meaningful accountability link between candidates/officeholders and party platforms.
Lawrence Friedman
Posted inOpinion
DiZoglio strikes back, but is she firing blanks?
Absent extraordinary circumstances, it is not for unelected judges to decide whenand how litigation should be pursued in the name of the Commonwealth’s citizens.
Posted inOpinion
The century-old flaw that let Question 1 go the ballot
The audit question amounts to an act of constitutional vandalism, an example of the mischief that can result from Article 48, and why this seems a good time to consider amending the initiative process.
Posted inOpinion
Voters should weigh trade-offs of Question 1
WITH MAIL-IN VOTING underway, Massachusetts citizens may be puzzling over Question 1, which aims to require automobile manufacturers that sell vehicles with telematics systems in the Commonwealth to allow owners […]
