The Saturday Send
Massachusetts’s slow adoption of EV chargers through federal program is ‘mystifying’ to transit advocates
By Jordan Wolman
While Massachusetts ranks fourth in the country for charging ports per capita after a sharp increase in installments over the past few years, the state is still about 2,000 charging ports short of what it estimates it needs.
Rent control backers scrambling to find legislative road away from the ballot
By Jennifer Smith and Chris Lisinski
Organizers then went public Tuesday afternoon with what they touted as a compromise: limiting rent increases to no more than 10 percent per year, only in cities and towns that opt in.
Transparency fight escalates as House votes to limit its exposure to audit, public records requests
By Chris Lisinski
The House’s top Republican described the controversial bill as an “[expletive] sandwich with extra pickles.”
Mass. inspector general faults sheriffs for using private bank accounts
By Chris Lisinski
Punctuating a months-long political feud, Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro said lawmakers, the executive branch, and sheriffs alike need to make changes to leave behind the “chaos” that consumed budgeting at the county law enforcement offices.
House wades in on data privacy: ‘Your data belongs to you.’
By Jennifer Smith
“Without exaggeration, we are living through the largest unregulated extraction of information in the history of civilization,” said Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier, of Pittsfield, on the House floor.
Lessons from Boston on Mass. school segregation lawsuit
Massachusetts has been busing students between neighborhoods and school districts for 60 years, but segregation within the school system persists – and in some places it’s actually gotten worse over recent decades. This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon reporter Jennifer Smith talks with Dan O’Brien, professor of public policy and urban affairs and director of the Boston Area Research Initiative at Northeastern University, about a new lawsuit brought against the state. Students and civil rights organizations want the state to step in to address segregation across school districts, and Boston’s long and fraught history of attempted desegregation may […]
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