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5 energy affordability policies to watch right now in Mass.

WBUR

Maura Healey Predicts Firings, Criminal Probes After MassDOT Overtime Report
New Boston Post
App-based drivers union dives into regulatory thicket
State House News Service
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu cancels plans to deliver remarks to graduates at Harvard Law School, university says
Boston Globe
Massachusetts Senate Pulls the Plug on Probe of High Electric Rates
WBSM
Female doctors are quitting medicine. What's driving them away?
Boston Globe

A cakewalk for Bill Galvin
Commonwealth Magazine
Opinion: I coined the term 'intersectionality.' I helped develop critical race theory. Here's why.
Boston Globe
Worried your college could close? Higher ed watchers say to look for these warning signs.
Boston Globe
'Frantzdy Pierrot Day' declared in Mass. in honor of Haitian World Cup star who grew up in Melrose
WHDH

National

Paxton wins Texas Senate runoff, defeating longtime incumbent Cornyn

Politico

Platner's covered-up Nazi tattoo should be 'disqualifying' in his Senate bid, Auchincloss says
Boston Globe
The Epic Disaster of Operation Epic Fury
The New Yorker
Internal GOP polling on Trump project sends Republicans into panic: ‘This was a bad idea’
The Raw Story
Americans Have Entered the Age of the Needle
The Atlantic
Donald Trump's War on Tourism
Foreign Policy

The House Democrat taking a big risk to land an AI deal
Politico
Judge rejects challenge to block new GOP-favored House map in Tennessee
The Hill
South Carolina Senate blocks redistricting plan in blow to Trump
The Hill
Former Rep. Colin Allred knocks off Rep. Julie Johnson in Texas House runoff
Politico
ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an 'alarming' rate, an AP investigation finds
The Associated Press (AP)

Today on Beacon Hill

10:00am

Governor's Council Assembly

Governor's Council Chamber, Room 360, State House, Boston

10:00am

Sickle Cell Advocacy Day

Nurses Hall, State House, Boston

10:30am

Senate Committee on Climate Change and Global Warming: Committee Hearing

Virtual Hearing

11:00am

House of Reps. Sexual Harassment Prevention Training

Gardner Auditorium, State House, Boston

12:00pm

"Ask the Mayor" with Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on GBH's Boston Public Radio

89.7 FM or gbhnews.org

12:00pm

Status of Persons with Disabilities

Virtual Hearing

1:00pm

Mass. Center for the Book - Letters about Literature Recognition Ceremony

Great Hall, State House, Boston

1:00pm

Protect Act Conference Committee

State House, Room 210

1:30pm

Mass. Clean Water Trust Executive Committee Meeeting

Via webcast

2:00pm

Department of Public Utilities Hearing

Via Zoom

5:30pm

Plymouth Campaign Kickoff for Sen. Dylan Fernandes

Historic Mayflower Society, 18 Winslow Street, Plymouth,

Birthday: Rep. Steven Owens

New Media

Instagram

Bay State DAs are ripping into the Governor’s Council after the members denied a former prosecutor from joining the Parole Board, calling the council’s vote “outrageous” as they choose “politics over public safety.”

Boston Herald

Healey ally Sen. Dylan Fernandes said on @wcvb5 this weekend that the legislature shouldn’t have to debate expenditures under $50,000 dollars.

Brian Shortsleeve

Maura Healey must opt Massachusetts into the EFT.

Mike Kennealy

This stock trading should be banned.

Elizabeth Warren

Podcasts

Texas Primary Results, South Carolina Rejects Redistricting, Iran Deal Whiplash

Up First From Npr

The Whiplash Over a Possible Peace Deal With Iran

The Daily

Dems Overwhelming Hatred

The Kuhner Report

Health Care for All

Incorruptible Mass

Substack

City Council votes for $300 trash fee

The Beverly Beat

Overtime Discrepancies at MassDOT's Charlestown Yard Test Promises of Accountability

Chester Tam

MLLC Files Legal Complaint After Elementary School Allows Trans-identified Boy to Harass Girls in Bathroom

Mass Informed Parents

Exclusive: Read the Newest Health Care Proposal Being Circulated Among Dems

TheBulwark

TikTok

A third generation Boston firefighter killed in the line of duty is being remembered for his devotion to the profession and his fellow firefighters.

WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Last week, we saw back-to-back dismissals of two high-profile federal prosecutions, due to misconduct by DOJ attorneys—going all the way to the top of the organization.

Liz Oyer

A labor union representing federal workers has asked the federal government to reinstate telework while gas prices remain high and members struggle to make ends meet.

NPR

Vice President JD Vance said in an interview published on Tuesday that he feels "extremely hopeful" the country will agree to a deal that includes a commitment not to develop nuclear weapons.

ABC News Live

YouTube

Pope Leo issues warning about AI and morality | What he said, analysis

NBC 10 Boston

US didn't break ceasefire with Iran, analyst says

ABC News

Massachusetts announces first U.S. rideshare drivers' union

WWLP-22News

Mass. millionaire's tax has generated over $3B in revenue

NBC 10 Boston

Quote of the Day

“Everett’s planning and development board voted unanimously in April to allow for a future data center on part of a 105-acre site where an ExxonMobil storage facility once sat near the Mystic River. Any new data center, though, could not be larger than 20,000 square feet or require more than 5 megawatts of electrical capacity.”

Boston Globe Editorial Board

Editorial piece that agrees with Everett's data center plans: allow data centers but with rules written long before a stake is ever put in the ground.