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Political Notebook: Teachers vs. Smith & Wesson
The state's largest teachers union is now the single biggest financial backer of keeping a 2024 gun control law on the books.
TENNESSEEMASSACHUSETTS
TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY
Report magnifies ‘time lost’ aboard slowest MBTA buses
The report recommends advancing planned projects, restoring, and expanding bus lanes, headway management to keep buses evenly spaces, and rolling out automated enforcement to address vehicles blocking bus lanes and bus stops.
CAMBRIDGEBACK BAYCHRISTOPHER OSGOODCOLE LEWIS
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
Pacheco wins Dartmouth-area primary as 14-vote margin holds
Pacheco claimed a 14-vote win with 2,493 votes to Medeiros' 2,479 after the recount, according to results from the secretary of state's office.
DARTMOUTH
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
Galvin defends ballot questions as a ‘safety valve’ amid reform push
Lawmakers this year could move forward with changes to how initiative petitions get on the ballot. Now, other voices are also starting to weigh in, amid a particularly active election cycle for citizen-led petitions.
MASSACHUSETTS
HOMELAND SECURITY AND SAFETY
Inflation and tariffs are scrambling rebuilding costs, and the rise in climate-driven natural disasters has contributed to a recent increase in private insurers not renewing policies.
MASSACHUSETTSPLYMOUTH
