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  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...

  New from  CommonWealth Beacon GOD’S BACKYARD:  The thousands of acres of land owned by religious institutions could host hundreds of thousands of new housing units, and advocates are  pushing for that kind of development  as part of a “Yes in God’s Back Yard,” or YIGBY, movement. Jennifer Smith has more.  HANSCOM:   Gov. Maura Healey  urged  federal immigration officials to stop using Hanscom Field and private aircraft as part of their deportation efforts, alleging that people are being moved from Massachusetts “without due process of law.” Ella Adams reports the details for State House News Service.  OPINION:  Hildreth Institute founder Robert Hildreth  warns  that aggressive immigration enforcement is injecting fear across the state’s schools, threatening to stall progress and undermine civic life.  Before you form an opinion, consider the consequences and review y...