The Download: Healey’s energy affordability push faces test in one of Massachusetts’s poorest communities
New from CommonWealth Beacon NEW CODCAST: Jennifer Smith talks Boston property tax rates with Greg Maynard, executive director of the Boston Policy Institute, the struggling commercial sector, and why the issue has led to public sparring between Mayor Michelle Wu and a state senator. CAMPAIGN: Two Democrats have jumped into the race to fill a House seat representing Cape Ann on Beacon Hill, reports Alison Kuznitz with the State House News Service, after Rep. Ann-Margaret Ferrante passed away on Thanksgiving. A timeline for a special election has not yet been announced. MUST READ! OPINION: Two years ago, Massachusetts passed the most ambitious data equity law in the country, but there’s been little progress in getting the policy in place, with residents continuing to suffer the consequences, write Jaya Savita of the Asian Paci...