The Saturday Send
Healey takes next step in bid to get in on Canadian offshore wind
By Jordan Wolman
The move is a concrete signal of the state’s seriousness in collaborating with Nova Scotia to boost offshore wind and find a Plan B to the now-stalled domestic wind industry on which Massachusetts had been relying.
New Greater Boston housing data show recent progress but troubling signs for the future
By Jennifer Smith
Statewide housing policy moves to juice new construction are colliding with “huge macroeconomic and federal policy headwinds pushing in the other direction,” said Luc Schuster, executive director of Boston Indicators, the research arm of the Boston Foundation. “It’s really hard to know where we’re headed in the next year.”
Healey names new climate chief after Hoffer’s departure
By Jordan Wolman
Aladdine Joroff, an attorney who has held roles teaching at Harvard and served as Boston’s climate policy director, assumes the post as Healey heads into a second term fraught with complicated climate and energy issues.
Frustrated by ‘prolonged inaction,’ Spilka might backtrack on extending legislative deadline next term
By Chris Lisinski
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.
Election season is done. Holiday season is approaching. And lawmakers still have dozens of big decisions to make.
By Chris Lisinski
It’s a new phenomenon for the Legislature to have this much unfinished business this close to the end of the two-year session.
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.
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