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  ❤️  Donate Wednesday, December 17, 2025 🌤️   Mostly sunny, with a high near 44. Good Morning Boston, We gave you  Dickens earlier this week at CitySpace . Tonight, it's time for something different: the vocal ensemble Blue Heron returns for a Christmas celebration in the style of 16th-century Spain, featuring lots of music and a dash of comedy.  Get tickets here , or   check out our arts team's weekly events roundup  for more local holiday-themed events happening tonight through Sunday. But first, the news: Ballot question battle lines:   Rent control  isn't the only bruising 2026 ballot fight  shaping up  in Massachusetts. As WBUR's Chris Van Buskirk reports, leaders on Beacon Hill are warning against a ballot campaign to lower the state's income tax at a time when the state's budget is already feeling a little shaky. Here's what to know: What it would do: The business-backed Massachusetts Opportunity Alliance is actually...

  ❤️  Donate Tuesday, December 16, 2025 ☀️  Sunny, with a high near 33. Good Morning Boston, Today we're publishing the first of a three-part series by WBUR's Deborah Becker, who traveled to Italy to visit the famous San Patrignano addiction treatment community that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has pointed to as a model for how the U.S. can tackle the opioid epidemic. Part 1 is below. But first, let's run through some local news: In court:   Cedric Lodge, the former longtime morgue manager at Harvard Medical School, is set to be sentenced today in Pennsylvania for his role in  the school's stolen body parts scandal . As WBUR’s Ally Jarmanning reports from Williamsport, Lodge admitted to stealing and selling heads, skin, hearts and bones from bodies donated to the school for anatomical study by students. He and his wife, Denise, have  pleaded guilty  to one count each of interstate transport of stolen goods. ...