A dramatic jump in new apartments in Chittenden County — and a dip in demand — have contributed to a rising vacancy rate after the white-hot rental market of the pandemic years.
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The competitive electric supply market is a 25-year laissez-faire experiment that mostly transfers money from confused households to private suppliers.
The Massachusetts AG has now tracked it for years: customers who switched lost money, more than 738 million dollars in total.
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It's summer and the potholes from winter are still here.
Massachusetts has some of the worst maintained roads in the country, and the average driver pays about 620 dollars a year for the damage.
Fixing them won't make headlines. We should do it anyway.
We could really use the help on this campaign, so if you're local and have a few hours, come volunteer with us.
My whole theory is that voters can handle the real answer. So instead of platitudes I want us to break down how we got a broken MBTA, a housing shortage and what actually fixes each one.
Massachusetts has one of the least productive legislatures in the country. Last week it moved fast for once: voting 125-28 to gut the audit 72% of voters approved and block the courts from enforcing it. No hearing, 24 hours to read it.
They can move quickly. Just not for you.
MIT invented the fusion reactor now being built in Virginia. This is a common story. Massachusetts: where great companies are born and never raised.
Silicon Valley runs on a pro-worker California law from 1872: the noncompete ban.
It's time to bring it here.
Mike has been consistently on the right side of this
We guarantee a lawyer to anyone accused of a crime, but not to someone about to lose their home.
In Massachusetts eviction court, 90% of landlords have counsel and only 3% of tenants do.
It also saves money. The cost of is about $26M against $63M in avoided eviction and homelessness costs.
Massachusetts isn't dependent on gas by accident. Every clean alternative has been blocked.
Offshore wind was killed by Trump twice. Hydropower was delayed by a Maine ballot question backed by fossil fuel companies.
The result is a grid that's 75% gas and some of the highest bills in the country.
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HOUSE APPROVES TRANSPARENCY BILL UNDER THE COVER OF DARKNESS 🤦🏻♂️I just voted “No” on the House re-write of the voter-approved legislative audit law. While I strongly agree with my Democratic colleagues that separation of powers limits the scope of the audit, I believe the SJC should draw those lines.
