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  Just as important as what we include in the Morning Digest is what we leave  out . Yesterday, we got a press release from a PAC that sported an eye-catching subject line: “ICYMI: New Polling Shows Denise Powell Leads 41-34 in NE-02” But there was a huge problem: This wasn’t true. Not at all. Rather, the poll the PAC commissioned had Powell leading her chief opponent in the Democratic primary only on an “informed ballot” question, in which respondents are given information about the candidates before being asked who they’d vote for. It’s a perfectly reasonable technique often used to judge the effectiveness of various messages that might get deployed—typically via paid advertising—but it tells us nothing about the actual state of the race today. For that, we need what’s known as an “initial ballot” question that simply pits candidates head-to-head by name, without any extra information. Those numbers, however, weren’t included anywhere in the pollster’s memo. It merely acknow...

  ❤️  Donate Friday, April 10, 2026 ☀️  Sunny, with a high near 67. Good Morning Boston, It's Friday! The Artemis II astronauts are set to splash down today.   Click here for more on what to expect  from their fiery return to Earth. But first, let's get to the local news: Speaking out:   Calls are growing for officials to release the body camera footage of a Boston police officer's fatal shooting of a Dorchester man nearly a month ago.  As WBUR's Eve Zuckoff reports in this story,   the family of Stephenson King Jr., who was shot and killed during an attempted traffic stop on March 11, gathered for a press conference at a church in Roxbury yesterday. The family talked about his longtime mental health struggles, which they said had worsened in recent months, and pressed for the body camera footage to be released. In a rare move, county prosecutors have  charged BPD officer Nicholas O'Malley with manslaughter,   s...