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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS.
NEW: BIDEN'S BOSTON FUNDRAISER — Joe Biden is bringing his 2020 campaign to Boston. The former vice president will hold a fundraiser at the Park Plaza hotel on June 5.
Biden's fundraiser is billed as "a reception with Vice President Joe Biden," according to an invitation shared with POLITICO. Suggested donations start at $250, but the event is open to supporters regardless of how much they give. The lower threshold for entry is similar to the "grassroots" fundraisers that Pete Buttigieg has held, where donations started as low as $25.
Tiered donation levels start at $250, and those who donate $1,000 will receive 'priority viewing.' Those who donate $2,000 are dubbed "sponsors" and get a photo, and co-hosts are supporters who write or raise $10,000. Biden was last in New England for a New Hampshire campaign swing several weeks ago. Just before launching his 2020 bid, Biden rallied with Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and striking Stop & Shop workers in Dorchester.
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TODAY — Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announces the new Fund for the Boston Public Library. Rep. Jim McGovern speaks at a New England Council event in Worcester. Rep. Lori Trahan hosts Virginia Rep. Bobby Scott for events in Devens and Marlborough. Rep. Ayanna Pressley attends a fundraiser for Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu's reelection campaign in Boston. Rep. Joe Kennedy III attends the 50th anniversary of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site in Brookline.
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 | DATELINE BEACON HILL |
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- "How much money would legalized sports betting bring into Massachusetts?" by Shira Schoenberg, Springfield Republican:"If sports betting is legalized in Massachusetts, how much money could it raise? The answer depends on what exactly is allowed and how high the tax rate will be. But a presentation Tuesday by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission at a legislative hearing indicates that the profits to the state would be relatively modest — between $11 million and $45 million annually, depending on what form of gambling is legalized and assuming a 10% tax rate. Others who testified at the hearing said similarly that Massachusetts should not anticipate a huge windfall."
- "Patients struggle to get pain meds," by Christian M. Wade, Gloucester Daily Times: "In Massachusetts and elsewhere, doctors and other health care providers are being urged limit use of painkillers, in part by offering alternatives for pain management. Three years ago, Gov. Charlie Baker and lawmakers pushed through a raft of rules aimed at curbing over-prescribing of opioids. Those included setting a seven-day limit on new opioid prescriptions; mandating emergency room evaluations of anyone treated for an overdose; and requiring doctors to consult the prescription monitoring database each time they prescribe an opioid. Meanwhile, states, counties and individual cities have filed more than 1,000 opioid-related lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies in state and federal courts."
- "Amazon's Seaport Office Will Employ More Than 2,000," by Matt Murphy, State House News Service: "Boston may have lost out in the competition to lure Amazon's second headquarters to the city, but the Seattle-based tech giant plans to hire 2,000 employees to work in a new Seaport office tower beginning in 2021. Gov. Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh helped Amazon and WS Development break ground on a new 17-story, 525,000 square-foot office tower Tuesday that will add to a neighborhood already bustling with new workers and companies. The building going up off Congress Street -- the new address is 111 Harbor Way -- will be built on one of the few remaining undeveloped parcels in the neighborhood. And the jobs are expected to be focused in the areas of software development, machine learning, speech science and robotics engineering."
- "Rollins, ICE make nice," by Sarah Betancourt, CommonWealth Magazine: "SUFFOLK COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY Rachael Rollins said on Tuesday that her office has had better cooperation with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement since she and a fellow DA filed a lawsuit against the agency. Talking to reporters after a court hearing on the case, Rollins said communication with ICE had improved but she still wants to see the federal agency's policies on detaining undocumented immigrants at county courthouses clarified. Rollins said that she's had "really positive conversations" with ICE Acting Field Office Director Todd Lyons, specifically about detainees being charged with felonies by her office. She and Lyons had previously been at odds after she published a March 2019 policy memo outlining practices her office would take in response to concerns that ICE was interfering with civil and criminal business at Suffolk County courts."
- "DeLeo touts $1.3b GreenWorks program," by Jon Chesto, Boston Globe: "House Speaker Robert DeLeo this week is unveiling his latest salvo in the effort to offset climate change: a $1.3 billion energy and resiliency bill that would create a new grant program for cities and towns. The grant program, called GreenWorks, would be funded by $1 billion in bonds and paid out over a decade. Cities and towns would apply for grants for a variety of projects that could be focused on climate resiliency, climate preparedness, clean energy production or promotion, energy storage, or carbon emission reductions. The program would be modeled after MassWorks, an existing state grant program for economic development-related infrastructure."
- "State senator calls out free-spending Mass Cultural Council," by Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald: "A Republican state senator is blasting his fellow solons for backing a budget boost for the free-spending Massachusetts Cultural Council, saying the trips, hotel and restaurant bills racked up by the agency is embarrassing. "It's very easy to spend other people's money," state Sen. Ryan Fattman (R-Webster) said of the arts agency. "I don't know many families in my district who go on two trips a month." Fattman cast one of the only "No" votes last week when fellow state senators agreed to boost the cultural council's budget by $1 million. That investment, he told the Herald Tuesday, hasn't been earned by the agency."
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| FROM THE HUB |
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- "Walsh to announce private fund for the Boston Public Library," by Milton J. Valencia, Boston Globe: "The city is set to launch a private fund this week for the Boston Public Library, the first major philanthropic endeavor of its kind for the 171-year-old civic institution. Mayor Martin J. Walsh said the effort will go toward investments in technology, programming, the preservation and restoration of the historic library facilities, and the care of its rare collections. Walsh plans to make the announcement at an 11:30 a.m. press conference Wednesday at the library's historic McKim Building on Boylston Street, along with the library's board of directors and its president, David Leonard. They mayor will also name an executive director for the fund."
- "Wynn Resorts pays $35 million fine but questions commission's criticism of CEO Matt Maddox ahead of Encore Boston Harbor opening," by Steph Solis, MassLive.com: "Wynn Resorts paid the $35 million fine issued by Massachusetts regulators, as well as the additional $500,000 issued against CEO Matt Maddox, but questioned the criticism against the head of the company. In a statement, Wynn Resorts wrote that the company was pleased to find that it remained suitable to run the $2.6 billion Everett casino after the Massachusetts Gaming Commission reviewed the company's response to sexual misconduct allegations against founder Steve Wynn. Still, the company said it disagreed that Maddox had violated company policy."
- "Marty Meehan to blame for UMass Boston financial woes: think tank," by Sean Philip Cotter, Boston Herald: "University of Massachusetts President Marty Meehan and the UMass system board are being blamed for the budget mess at the Boston campus, a scathing new report by the Pioneer Institute states. The think tank said the rapid capital expansion Meehan has overseen has caused UMass Boston to run into major problems — not the actions of former UMass Boston Chancellor Keith Motley, which Pioneer says Meehan used as a scapegoat. The report lands as Meehan battles with the state Legislature over funding."
- "Closure of Pilgrim nuclear plant is part of a shifting energy industry," by David Abel, Boston Globe: "Sometime late Friday afternoon, amid an array of blinking lights and squawking alarms, a supervisor in the antiquated control room of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station will issue a curt command to halt the splitting of atoms that for nearly five decades has generated electricity for much of the region. "Insert a manual scram, enter 2.1.6," the supervisor will say. With that order, a colleague will walk to the front of the control room, which looks like the bridge of a 1970s-era warship, and press two red buttons. If all goes right, the last of 145 crucifix-shaped control rods will be inserted into the reactor, shutting down operations for good."
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| TRUMPACHUSETTS |
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- "GOP chair targets 'radical left Dems,'" by Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine: "MASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICAN PARTY Chairman Jim Lyons sent an email out over the weekend recruiting candidates to "challenge the radical left Democrats" across the state. The email asks: "Have you had enough of the Radical Left's nonsense?" One recipient, a lifelong Democrat, passed the email along to CommonWealth with a note saying he assumed he had received the email because he had donated to Gov. Charlie Baker."
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| DAY IN COURT |
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- "Judge dismisses lawsuit brought by former Mount Ida students over college's sudden closure," by Shira Schoenberg, Springfield Republican: "A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by three students of Mount Ida College, who sued the school over its sudden closure. Judge Richard Stearns, in a 17-page ruling issued Friday, found in favor of Mount Ida College. The small Newton school closed suddenly at the end of the 2018. The plaintiffs were Tristan Squeri, a former Mount Ida student; Madeline McClain, a prospective student from New Jersey who had planned to enroll in the fall; and George O'Dea, a former student in the college's funeral service program."
- RELATED: "Who's the rich guy helping poor Mt. Ida students fight the school's closing in federal court?" Link.
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| WARREN REPORT |
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- "Elizabeth Warren Gains Ground in 2020 Field, One Plan at a Time," by Thomas Kaplan and Astead W. Herndon, New York Times: "To the crowd of Iowans gathered in a school gym on Saturday night, Senator Elizabeth Warren made a request: They should pose a question to the other presidential candidates who come to Iowa seeking their vote. "Ask them: Where do you get your money?" she said. "Are you getting it from a bunch of millionaires?" For Ms. Warren, the question highlighted one of the sharpest contrasts she has drawn with most of her top rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination: She has sworn off holding private fund-raisers with wealthy donors. "The best president money can't buy," signs and T-shirts for her campaign say."
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| THE CLARK CAUCUS |
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- "WWII Spy, 98, Is Presented With The Congressional Gold Medal," by Jerome Campbell, WBUR: "Following her husband's combat death in 1942, Patricia Warner signed up as an officer with the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA. On Tuesday, the Lincoln resident was honored for her service as a spy for two years during World War II. U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark presented the Congressional Gold Medal to Warner, who said it was a welcome surprise to an exciting month: She just turned 98. Warner was pretty covert about her duties overseas in Spain, but she did recall Tuesday coordinating with European resistance groups through Morse Code."
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| MOULTON MATTERS |
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- "Seth Moulton discloses PTSD, unveils military mental health proposal," by Alex Thompson, POLITICO: "Rep. Seth Moulton, a Marine veteran who is running for president, will introduce a plan Tuesday evening to expand military mental health services and will disclose that he sought treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder after his combat deployments during the Iraq War. "I had some particular experiences or regrets from the war that I just thought about every day, and occasionally I'd have bad dreams or wake up in a cold sweat," the Massachusetts Democrat told POLITICO in an interview ahead of a Tuesday night event in Massachusetts that will begin a Veterans Mental Health Tour in early-primary states."
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| ABOVE THE FOLD |
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— Herald: "SCHOOLED!" — Globe: "A table for 2? First a few online hurdles," "Pilgrim nears end as nuclear declines," "AFTER GIRL'S DEATH, AN ARRAIGNMENT." |
| FROM THE 413 |
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- "State regains guarantee on 'middle mile' network," by Larry Parnass, The Berkshire Eagle: "An arbitrator's ruling was expected to be the last word on the state's legal fight over a high-tech asset that cost taxpayers $90 million. After all, that finding was termed "final, binding and non-appealable." But in a ruling Tuesday, a U.S. District Court judge pushed back, giving the quasi-public Massachusetts Technology Park Corp. a legal victory it called essential to preserving the fiber-optic "middle mile" internet network for hundreds of municipal customers in the western counties. The decision by Judge Timothy S. Hillman granted a motion by MassTech to undo the arbitrator's decision to free the middle-mile operator from having to guarantee the network's performance."
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| THE LOCAL ANGLE |
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- "Cape senators secure state funds for their districts," by Geoff Spillane, Cape Cod Times: "The Massachusetts state Senate unanimously approved a nearly $43 billion fiscal 2020 budget late Thursday night, and the Cape and Islands is set to get its share. During the three-day budget debate on Beacon Hill, Sens. Julian Cyr, D-Truro, and Viriato "Vinny" deMacedo, R-Plymouth, scored several amendment wins that will funnel funds to their districts. Cyr successfully filed 24 amendments, totaling $7.3 million, including $740,000 for local initiatives and $6.6 million in statewide priority initiatives that will also benefit Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket."
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| MEDIA MATTERS |
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- Haley Ryger joins WCVB as a producer. Tweet.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to Senate candidate Shannon Liss-Riordan, who turns 5-0; Charles River Esplanade Executive Director Michael Nichols, WGBH's Matt Baskin, and CNN's Eric Levenson.
DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? No! The Indians beat the Red Sox 7-5.
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