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Political Notebook: South Hadley voters reject controversial Proposition 2½ override

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  ADVERTISEMENT New from  CommonWealth Beacon ROMNEYCARE :  Twenty years after Massachusetts passed  landmark health care reform legislation  that gave the state the highest rate of insurance coverage in the country, the leading players behind the law gathered in the same storied meeting hall where the 2006 bill was signed to celebrate their uncommon achievement as the state faces tremendous threats to its effort to maintain near-universal coverage. Michael Jonas has more.   OPINION :  David Mancuso  says  Laurie Gagnon’s  recent commentary  promoting locally controlled “reciprocal accountability” as a framework for a new state graduation requirement is a “seductive argument,” but would leave the state’s most disadvantaged students behind.     Political Notebook: South Hadley voters reject controversial Proposition 2½ override   April 15, 2026 By  HALLIE CLAFLIN, JORDAN WOL...