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WBUR TODAY: Mass. eyes Norway's prison model

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  ❤️ Donate Wednesday, July 22, 2026 🌦️ Partly sunny, with a high of 86 and a chance of more scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon. Good Morning Boston, The Red Sox have a chance to tie — and then break — the team's 80-year-old record for consecutive wins in a doubleheader today against the Baltimore Orioles, after last night's game was rained out . Speaking of records, let's look at our state's jam-packed midterm ballot: Full of questions: Massachusetts will officially tie a state record for the number of ballot questions this fall. After a last-ditch signature challenge was rejected yesterday, Secretary of State Bill Galvin's office finalized the number and order of the nine questions. Even with three questions    blocked by the state's top court, that number matches a high mark reached only three times before . Now comes the tricky part: actually fitting them all on the ballot. According to Galvin, the sheer volume of questions creates some "ver...

Eleventh-hour Senate move could upend tax rebate ballot question

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ADVERTISEMENT New from CommonWealth Beacon SEA LEVELS: The US Army Corps of Engineers and the City of Boston are ready to outline 20 projects designed to protect the most flood-prone parts of the Hub from rising sea levels. Jordan Wolman reports on the draft plan and the question marks that remain about who will foot the bill. BALLOT QUESTIONS: A controversial push to repeal the 2016 legalization of recreational marijuana survived a legal challenge, and officials then unveiled the order in which all nine ballot questions will appear before voters. Chris Lisinski details the record-tying milestone. ABORTION: The House will vote Wednesday on a fast-moving proposal to remove limitations on abortion later in pregnancy, a measure top Democrats said would ensure "reproductive health care decisions are made exclusively by the patient and her doctor." Alison Kuznitz reports for State House News Service. OPINION: A ballot question that would have established statewide rent control ...