MBTA Communities fight heads back to the SJC
New from CommonWealth Beacon UNCERTAIN PATH: The annual fiscal check-up that state budget-writers convened this week featured the same calls for caution and warnings about a volatile environment that have dominated conversations for the past year-plus. But this time around, the potential tax cut questions on next year’s state ballot emerged as a major point of concern. Chris Lisinski has more. OPINION: Facing critiques over its opaque lawmaking process, Beacon Hill rolled out a suite of transparency reforms last session. But a new tracker finds lawmakers are breaking plenty of their own rules during this term, and the Legislature should try actually abiding by its own standards, write Jonathan Cohn, policy director at Progressive Massachusetts, and Scotia Hille, executive director of Act on Mass. WHICH REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR PROMOTED THE MBTA COMMUNITIES ACT? SLOW ZONE SHORTSLEEVE IGNORED MBTA PROBLEMS - NOW WAN...