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The two sides of ranked choice voting
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Evan Falchuk, in favor of Question 2 calling for ranked choice voting, squares off with Nick Murray, a policy analyst at the Maine Policy Institute.By CommonWealth magazine
We talk to David Seltz, the executive director of the state’s Health Policy Commission, about how the coronavirus is changing health care.By CommonWealth magazine
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Andrea Campbell says Boston primed for change
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We talk with Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell about her candidacy for mayor.By CommonWealth magazine
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Michelle Wu's personal path to politics
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Michelle Wu is, by conventional standards, an unlikely figure to be challenging a sitting Boston mayor (though incumbent Mayor Marty Walsh has yet to declare his candidacy, he is widely expected to seek a third term next year). She is shy by temperament, and when she entered Harvard as an undergraduate in 2004, politics was so removed from Wu’s upb…
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Even basics in dispute on Right to Repair ballot question
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Massachusetts voters will be asked in November whether to update the Right to Repair law -- but they may have a hard time wading through the complexities of a ballot question when supporters and opponents cannot even agree on the basics of what it will do.Tommy Hickey, director of the Right to Repair Coalition, and Conor Yunits, a spokesman for No …
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No worries with ‘crowded’ Red Line train
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I took a Red Line train last week that was crowded according to the MBTA’s COVID-19 crowding standards, but the consensus on this week’s Codcast was that I didn’t need to worry.Jim Aloisi, the former secretary of transportation and TransitMatters board member, called my story on the crowded train ride a mild over-reaction “Your article might have g…
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Parent frustration about schools is rising
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With less than two weeks until school starts, parents from Somerville and Newton say they have yet to get any details on what classes will look like for their children and whether remote learning will be better than it was when schools suddenly shut down last spring amid COVID-19.“Families cannot live in a state of uncertainty,” said Keri Rodrigues…
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Rep. Barber spotlights ‘draconian’ MassHealth asset recovery policies
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The federal government allows states to recoup Medicaid costs after the deaths of patients who use the program. Estate recovery allows homes to be seized and sold to pay off expended Medicaid dollars, a move advocates decry as penalizing low-income families, and making Medicaid into a loan program.Some states take the federal rules a step further. …
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Markey-Kennedy race in the homestretch
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Curtatone, Novick hit Baker reopening guidance
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Downing, Vennochi voice concerns on Baker
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Opponents debate merits of Maine hydro project
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Two opponents debate a ballot question in Maine with huge importance for Massachusetts.By CommonWealth magazine
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As local news withers, we’re losing sense of identity
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Sharp split on need for new transpo revenues
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Differences between AIM official and transportation advocate mirror the split on Beacon Hill.By CommonWealth magazine
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Michael Curry: Waging a duel-front war on the pandemic and racism
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Michael Curry: Waging a duel-front war on the pandemic and racism by CommonWealth magazineBy CommonWealth magazine
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Contact tracing effort scaled way back
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Spilka makes a case for substance over process
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Black Lives Matter: Where do we go from here?
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Childcare provider: 'I'm scared for my business'
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Holmes, Idowu on George Floyd and where we go from here
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6/7/20-- Rep. Russell Holmes and Segun Idowu, the Executive Director of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts, discuss the impact of George Floyd's death and racial justice reform. Holmes is a sponsor of several bills, including one that would allow for decertification of officers for misconduct. Idowu addresses misconceptions about recent pr…
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Time of reckoning for New England Aquarium, Museum of Science
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Mayor Marty Walsh takes stock of COVID-19 crisis
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Senator says nursing home industry collapsing
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Poftak wary of taking hard policy stances at T
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Sweden's coronavirus gamble by CommonWealth magazineBy CommonWealth magazine
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Coronavirus and our unease with end of life questions
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Baker accused of misplaced COVID-19 priorities
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EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT IT’S LIKE these days to be inside a supermarket, but few people know what it’s like to be in the shoes of the essential workers who keep those stores running.On the Codcast, Boston-based Stop and Shop employee Jose Lopes and Whole Foods worker Dan offered their assessment of the risks they face these days working at grocery stor…
Joined by Rep. William Straus, cochair of the legislature's Transportation Committee and Jim Aloisi, TransitMatters board member and formed Secretary of TransportationBy CommonWealth magazine
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Healing spirits in the coronavirus era
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Those on the margins will bear brunt of virus toll
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The Codcast ft. Sandro GaleaBy CommonWealth magazine
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The Codcast feat. Anthony Amore and Amy Carnevale
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Straus lays out rationale for transpo revenues
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Evan Horowitz & the Center for State Policy Analysis
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One year in, Suffolk DA Rachael Rollins take stock
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Steve Walsh raises concerns about urgent care clinics
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TransitMatters feat. State Sen. Brendan Crighton
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The Codcast feat. Developer Tom O'Brien
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Anita Walker betting culture is good for your health
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With a portion of the state’s casino revenues, the Massachusetts Cultural Council is testing whether arts and culture can be prescribed just like medicine.The organization is running three pilot projects where health providers, counselors, and social workers prescribe cultural activities for those with whom they work. The goal is to see whether goi…
Tunneling under the Charles River by CommonWealth magazineBy CommonWealth magazine
SOME OF THE STATE’S leading transit advocates are calling for extending the life of the existing MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board for six months to a year and making buses free across the state.On the TransitMatters Codcast hosted by CommonWealth magazine, Jim Aloisi, the former transportation secretary and TransitMatters board member; Josh…
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Partners vowing to end surprise billing
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Can Hampshire College rise, if not from the dead, from the higher ed death watch list? Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen has predicted that as many as half of all US colleges and universities will close or go bankrupt over the next decade, and a year ago it looked like Hampshire would be one of them. The Amherst college, founded in…
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Atrius Health reaching back to its managed roots
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There’s a back to the future feel to some of the changes taking place in US health care, and Atrius Health, which provides care to some 740,000 patients, is a leading player in that effort in Massachusetts. After years of soaring health care costs, there is growing interest in moving away from the fee-for-service model that has long dominated care,…
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What's behind the split within the Mass. GOP
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There is a struggle going on for the soul of the Massachusetts Republican Party between Trump loyalists who control the party apparatus and a more moderate brand of Republicanism espoused by Gov. Charlie Baker.The state party is headed by Jim Lyons, a social and economic conservative who said in a recent email to state Republicans that President Tr…
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Is Walsh preparing to go ‘bold’ on transportation?
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The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s “City to City” program sets out to take Boston civic and business leaders to other cities so they can expand their thinking on challenges at home by learning about policies and practices elsewhere. Walsh, who was part of the program’s trip earlier this month to Los Angeles, has clearly taken that mission to …
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Anderson: No revenue shortage for transportation
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FOR THE Massachusetts High Technology Council, blocking a transportation revenue package is a two-step process.The first step, which proved successful last week, was convincing House leaders to put off any action on a revenue package until next year. Chris Anderson, president of the council, argued on the CommonWealth Codcast that delaying action a…
