Dear Readers,
With a holiday break coming up (and some bad weather), here are links to five terrific new articles from the reporters at the Student Dispatch. When you have some down-time, read on and you will learn about Massachusetts topics that are not being covered anywhere else!
Read, share your thoughts, pass on the email to others!
Happy holidays,
Eitan Hersh
Chloe Bohl writes about Boston’s struggle to adopt “participatory budgeting”, a plan for ordinary citizens to allocate government money.
Jay Greenwald shows us how the hiring crisis is affecting municipal governments in the state. Cities and towns are struggling to hire. And we’re about to feel the consequences.
Check out the epic fight that’s happening within the Libertarian Party, both here and nationally. Summer Maxwell walks us through it, and explains why it matters for our increasingly one-party system in Mass.
Michael Weiskopf updates us on legislation about `step therapy’ in Massachusetts. The battle pits insurers vs. patient advocates, cost vs. care, and there are no easy answers.
Elizabeth Warren and Ayanna Pressley were confident that President Biden could forgive student loans. Many borrowers in Massachusetts are now expecting to pay even more money once the court overturns the plan. Flora Meng reports.
