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  View in browser   BY  LISA KASHINSKY THE GREAT DEBATE DEBATE —  The glowing headlines about Andrea Campbell’s  rising political star  and her potentially history-making run for attorney general are quickly being replaced by something else:  story  after  story  about her refusal to commit to a debate — or seven — against Republican rival Jay McMahon. She’s not the only one.  Democratic auditor nominee state Sen. Diana DiZoglio told GBH she’d agree to debate Republican Anthony Amore — if the third-party candidates in the race also participate. A WCVB-proposed debate between Secretary of State Bill Galvin and Rayla Campbell isn’t happening, the candidates said, because the TV station requires people entering its building to be vaccinated and the Republican nominee is not. The only Democrat running statewide who’s agreed to a debate this fall is Maura Healey.  The attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial nominee is set to s...

  View in browser   BY  LISA KASHINSKY Presented by UPS ‘FOOD OUGHT TO BE A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT’ —  Rep. Jim McGovern believes that ending hunger can be a political unifier in a partisan era. Even still, it took him months of organizing with anti-hunger groups and pushing for buy-in from the Biden administration to get to where we are today: the first  White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health   in more than five decades. The Biden administration has a plan to end hunger by 2030  through  executive actions and policies   that include expanding access to federal nutrition assistance programs, getting the FDA to roll out voluntary nutrition guidance and increasing the number of students who can get free school meals. Some of those policies would require action from Congress — where extending school meal programs is already a fight, and where Democrats could lose control of one or both chambers in the midterms, complicating the...