Healey again puts offshore wind on back burner
By Bruce Mohl
Bowing to opposition from President Trump, the Healey administration on Monday put its offshore wind plans on hold yet again and said it is committed to an “all-of-the-above approach to energy.”
Health advocates warn proposed wood-burning plant in Springfield will worsen asthma rates
By Bhaamati Borkhetaria
Health groups are warning that the revived proposal for a wood-burning plant in Springfield could roll back years of progress in fighting the high rates of asthma in the city.
5 ways Trump tax and spend bill would affect Massachusetts
By Abigail Pritchard | The New Bedford Light
As factions in Congress go head to head over the Senate and House versions of the bill, here’s what it could mean for people in Massachusetts.
As Holyoke schools exit state oversight, new scrutiny for receivership law
By Michael Jonas
State takeovers have been employed during the recent era of education reform aimed at closing the achievement gap separating lower-income students and students of color from their better-off, white peers. But the evidence supporting the moves has been decidedly underwhelming.
Supplementing or supplanting? Surtax spending gets ‘complicated’
By Sam Drysdale I State House News Service
The Legislature this week agreed to use nearly $500 million in surtax revenue to deliver a major boost to K-12 school funding, a move that some see as fulfilling the voter-approved mission of the tax on high earners while others warn it strays from the original promise of funding new education and transportation initiatives.
The introvert’s guide to being mayor
CommonWealth Beacon reporter Gintautas Dumcius interviews Boston Mayor Michelle Wu about her start in politics and being both an introvert and a politician, why she’s a Democrat, the super PACs crowding this year’s election, and her media diet.
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