EV infrastructure lags and four more stories: The Saturday Send - June 5, 2026
The Saturday Send ADVERTISEMENT Welcome back to the Saturday Send, a weekly digest of stories from CommonWealth Beacon that you may have missed. This week, Jordan Wolman looks at why, nearly four years after receiving millions through a federal EV infrastructure program , the Commonwealth hasn’t built a single charger, despite being roughly 2,000 chargers short of its estimated needs. Plus, proponents of a ballot measure to create the strictest statewide rent control in the country are scrambling to find a way off the ballot; a House bill would permanently limit the power voters awarded the state auditor to probe the Legislature ; the Mass. inspector general warns that county sheriffs’ budgeting is rife with “chaos” ; and the House joins the Senate in a crusade for stronger data privacy in Massachusetts. Check out those stories below, and, as always, thanks for reading. — The CommonWealth Beacon team Massachusetts’s slow adoption of EV chargers thro...