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How do all-party primaries change politics? Just look to California

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  New from CommonWealth Beacon NO DIVINE INTERVENTION: The state's highest court ruled that the city of Quincy cannot install bronze statues of Catholic patron saints on the facade of its new public safety building, a rebuke to Mayor Thomas Koch. Jennifer Smith reports on how justices determined the statues would constitute improper government support for a particular religion. WHITE STADIUM: A day after the Supreme Judicial Court rejected a challenge to the White Stadium redevelopment project, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu celebrated the ruling that keeps on track a plan to use the new facility to host Boston Legacy professional women's soccer matches. Sam Drysdale has details for State House News Service. OPINION: Massachusetts should follow enactment of a new literacy law by overhauling teacher preparation so educators are properly equipped to embrace the evidence-based methodology, writes Donna Thayer, a second grade teacher at Mason-Rice Elementary in Newton and a Teach Plu...