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Reverse mortgage case heads to court plus four more stories

by CommonWealth Beacon staff, CommonWealth Beacon
August 30, 2025

<h1>Reverse mortgage case heads to court plus four more stories</h1>
<p class="byline">by CommonWealth Beacon staff, CommonWealth Beacon <br />August 30, 2025</p>

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<p class="has-light-gray-background-color has-background">Plus: The attorney general's suit against a Boston-based financial technology company for allegedly predatory loan practices moves forward and Fitchburg opens affordable housing for artists. </p>
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<p>A lawsuit leveled by the state attorney general against a Boston-based financial technology company for allegedly predatory loan practices is allowed to move forward after a Suffolk County Superior Court judge denied the company’s motion to dismiss the complaint.</p>
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<p>“We continue to be a place that people want to come and work,” said Bruce Stebbins, acting chair of the Cannabis Control Commission in a Q&amp;A about his reappointment to the board.</p>
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Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. 

This week, CommonWealth Beacon sits down with Bruce Stebbins to discuss his reappointment to the Cannabis Control Commission. 

Plus: The attorney general's suit against a Boston-based financial technology company for allegedly predatory loan practices moves forward and Fitchburg opens affordable housing for artists. 

Check out those stories below, and, as always, thanks for reading.

— The CommonWealth Beacon team

Flexible financing or illegal reverse mortgage?

By Jennifer Smith

A lawsuit leveled by the state attorney general against a Boston-based financial technology company for allegedly predatory loan practices is allowed to move forward after a Suffolk County Superior Court judge denied the company’s motion to dismiss the complaint.

READ MORE

Bruce Stebbins on his reappointment to the cannabis commission and his vision for the coming five years

By Bhaamati Borkhetaria

“We continue to be a place that people want to come and work,” said Bruce Stebbins, acting chair of the Cannabis Control Commission in a Q&A about his reappointment to the board.

READ MORE

Fitchburg cuts the ribbon on affordable housing project for artists

By Hallie Claflin

Leaders in Fitchburg finally cut the ribbon on an affordable housing project for artists that was nearly 13 years in the making.

READ MORE

Flashback Friday: Rooting for the home team

By Mark Murphy

There have been many minor-league baseball teams in Massachusetts over the years, but right now the Bay State has a bumper crop. And it seems fair to say that the enthusiasm of their host communities—all of them some distance from the Boston metropolis, as measured by size and prosperity as well as by geography—has never been greater.

READ MORE

Mass. could join states that ban concealed license plates

By Alison Kuznitz | State House News Service

Motorists would be banned from installing tinted license plate covers on their cars that distort or block key information under a bill that secured initial approval in the House this week.

READ MORE

Restoring blighted properties is easier said than done in Western Mass.

This week on the Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon editor Laura Colarusso sits down with Gateway Cities reporter Hallie Claflin to talk about her recent reporting in Holyoke – where city leaders and housing developers have struggled to restore vacant mills and blighted industrial buildings. They discuss the costly environmental hazards associated with these projects, as well as state and federal funding barriers, weak market conditions, tariffs, and more.

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The Saturday Send

Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed.

This week, CommonWealth Beacon sits down with Bruce Stebbins to discuss his reappointment to the Cannabis Control Commission.

Plus: The attorney general’s suit against a Boston-based financial technology company for allegedly predatory loan practices moves forward and Fitchburg opens affordable housing for artists.

Check out those stories below, and, as always, thanks for reading.

— The CommonWealth Beacon team

Flexible financing or illegal reverse mortgage?

By Jennifer Smith

A lawsuit leveled by the state attorney general against a Boston-based financial technology company for allegedly predatory loan practices is allowed to move forward after a Suffolk County Superior Court judge denied the company’s motion to dismiss the complaint.

Bruce Stebbins on his reappointment to the cannabis commission and his vision for the coming five years

By Bhaamati Borkhetaria

“We continue to be a place that people want to come and work,” said Bruce Stebbins, acting chair of the Cannabis Control Commission in a Q&A about his reappointment to the board.

Fitchburg cuts the ribbon on affordable housing project for artists

By Hallie Claflin

Leaders in Fitchburg finally cut the ribbon on an affordable housing project for artists that was nearly 13 years in the making.

Flashback Friday: Rooting for the home team

By Mark Murphy

There have been many minor-league baseball teams in Massachusetts over the years, but right now the Bay State has a bumper crop. And it seems fair to say that the enthusiasm of their host communities—all of them some distance from the Boston metropolis, as measured by size and prosperity as well as by geography—has never been greater.

Mass. could join states that ban concealed license plates

By Alison Kuznitz | State House News Service

Motorists would be banned from installing tinted license plate covers on their cars that distort or block key information under a bill that secured initial approval in the House this week.

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