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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. Happy Monday!
KENNEDY LAUNCHES SENATE CAMPAIGN — The first days of Joe Kennedy's Senate primary campaign offered a glimpse at the coalition he hopes to assemble in his challenge to Sen. Ed Markey.
After launching on Saturday in East Boston, where the Kennedy family traces back to a neighborhood populated by Irish immigrants in the mid- to late-1800s, he embarked on a statewide tour largely focused on immigration, affordable housing and the opioid crisis. He met with LGBTQ asylum seekers and refugees in Worcester, and talk about climate change and union jobs in New Bedford. In Boston, he toured an affordable housing development, one of roughly 15 stops overall.
It's a strategy that focuses less on winning over activists and establishment leaders, and more on turning out new voters — particularly immigrants and people of color — who typically vote at lower rates than white voters do. It's a model that worked spectacularly here for Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley in her insurgent 2018 House campaign against another fixture of the state political establishment, then-Rep. Michael Capuano.
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TODAY — Gov. Charlie Baker celebrates Delta Air Lines at Logan Airport. Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Senate President Karen Spilka and House Speaker Robert DeLeo hold a leadership meeting. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh attends a North Square ribbon cutting. State Reps. Paul Mark and Lindsay Sabadosa hold a 2020 census kickoff in Northampton. Attorney General Maura Healey attends a partnership lunch with Sandy Hook Promise in North Adams, and a Franklin County Opioid Task Force meeting in Greenfield.
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E-cigarettes are hooking a new generation, thanks to massive doses of nicotine and thousands of kid-friendly flavors. This public health emergency threatens decades of progress in lowering youth tobacco use. We must take flavored e-cigarettes off the market, stand up to companies like JUUL, and protect our kids. Learn More. |
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 | DATELINE BEACON HILL |
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- "State pressured to put ban on flavored e-cigs," by Christian M. Wade, Eagle-Tribune: "Pressure is growing on state leaders to ban flavored e-cigarettes amid a nationwide outbreak of lung disease, believed to be vaping related, that has sickened hundreds and killed at least seven people. On Tuesday, New York became the first state to ban the sale of the flavored e-cigs and other vaping products, giving retailers two weeks to remove merchandise from their shelves. Michigan recently approved a similar ban but the new restrictions have not yet taken effect. Other states and major U.S. cities, including Boston, are considering temporary bans."
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| WHAT CITY HALL IS READING |
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- "At Boston.gov, you don't always get an answer," by Colman M. Herman, CommonWealth Magazine: "Boston.gov, the city of Boston's official website, has the potential to make it quick and easy for citizens to get answers to questions, file complaints, and make requests for help to officials. But a test of the system found that it's not unusual for simple emailed questions to fall on deaf ears at Boston City Hall. Thirty-eight of the 100 city agencies, boards, commissions, and cabinets contacted in June and July ignored the inquiries sent to them."
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| ON THE STUMP |
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- "Meet the candidates running for Boston City Council," by Jeremy C. Fox and John Hilliard, Boston Globe: "When Boston voters go to the polls for Tuesday's preliminary election, they'll see a slate of City Council candidates that looks more like a cross-section of the city they're seeking to represent than at perhaps any other time in history. This year's candidates are women and men from many family backgrounds, educational experiences, and professions, ranging from longtime public servants to young hopefuls still building careers."
- "Ayanna Pressley to Boston City Council candidates: Urge residents to make their voices heard," by John Hilliard, Boston Globe: "US Representative Ayanna Pressley sounded an urgent call to City Council candidates Sunday during a get-out-the-vote rally in Roxbury, arguing that turnout in local elections, like Tuesday's, will be critical to getting people to cast ballots in next year's national presidential election. The rally, organized by the Massachusetts Democratic Party, was intended to encourage participation in Boston's Tuesday preliminary election, which has 38 candidates running for the Boston City Council — and could help create the most diverse body in the city's history."
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| FROM THE HUB |
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- "Car Pollution In Boston Neighborhoods Poses Health Risk To Residents, New Research Finds," by Craig LeMoult, WGBH News: "Highways are crucial arteries of our transportation system, but the air pollution from all those vehicles could pose a serious health risk to anyone living, working or going to school near a highway. New research from a number of Boston-area universities shows transportation-related air pollution may be even more harmful than previously understood, leaving some of society's most vulnerable at greater risk for heart attack and stroke."
- "Unexcused absence: Boston Public Schools yet to hire 23 budgeted psychologists," by Alexi Cohan, Boston Herald: "A Boston Teachers Union contract approved in May allocated funding for 23 full-time mental health professionals — but the Boston Public Schools academic year is under way and none of the hires has been made, leaving troubled students dealing with trauma such as bullying, violence, poverty, drugs and more without a safety net. The inaction puts at-risk students in greater danger of struggling in school, dropping out, engaging in substance abuse or suffering other problems, education experts say, and has Boston City Councilor and Education Committee Chairwoman Annissa Essaibi-George calling for a timeline to get the hires made as soon as possible."
- "MIT president Rafael Reif is suddenly at the center of a storm," by Deirdre Fernandes and Zoe Greenberg, Boston Globe: "L. Rafael Reif declared in a speech last year that successful MIT students and university presidents have one trait in common: They must love very hard problems. "This masochism is essential," said Reif, MIT's president since 2012. Now, Reif, an electrical engineer by training, is facing his own set of very hard problems and the most significant test of his leadership since climbing the ranks from MIT professor to president. The university that Reif, 69, came to nearly 40 years ago is in turmoil over its extensive and secretive ties to Jeffrey Epstein."
- "MIT Media Lab Dumped Chemicals In Excess Of Legal Limit, Keeping Regulators In The Dark," by Lisa Song and Max Larkin, ProPublica and WBUR: "Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab have dumped wastewater underground in apparent violation of a state regulation, according to documents and interviews, potentially endangering local waterways in and near the town of Middleton. Nitrogen levels from the lab's wastewater registered more than 20 times above the legal limit, according to documents provided by a former Media Lab employee. When water contains large amounts of nitrogen, it can kill fish and deprive infants of oxygen."
- "Boston Officer On Leave After Roxbury Prep Students Say He Called Them Racial Slurs," by Quincy Walters, WBUR: "Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said her office is investigating accusations that a Boston police officer used racial slurs against several students at a Hyde Park charter school. A Boston police spokesman confirmed Friday that Officer Joseph Lynch has been placed on administrative leave. Lynch reportedly was responding to a noise complaint about several teens from Roxbury Prep High School at a McDonald's near the school, the Boston Globe first reported. The students said the officer pushed them and called them racial slurs."
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| IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN |
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- "Here's What You Missed at the Boston Youth Climate Strike," by Alyssa Vaughn, Boston Magazine: "Friday, the young people of Boston skipped school to join youth across the globe in a worldwide "strike" to call for action on climate change. Organized by Massachusetts Climate Strike, a group of youth activists all younger than 20, the all-day event included community events, a rally with speakers, and a march to the State House, in hopes of drawing attention to three demands: For Charlie Baker to declare a climate emergency, for a just and equitable transition to the Green New Deal, and for a renewed commitment to the rejection of fossil fuels."
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| PRIMARY SOURCES |
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- "Ed Markey responds to Joe Kennedy's Senate primary campaign announcement with a challenge," by Nik DeCosta Klipa, Boston.com: "Sen. Ed Markey is responding to Rep. Joe Kennedy's primary challenge with a challenge of his own. Within minutes of Kennedy formally announcing his Senate campaign Saturday morning, Markey called on the Massachusetts congressman and his two other Democratic primary challengers to agree to a debate specifically focused on climate change in November."
- "Age Is A Fault Line In Markey Vs. Kennedy. But Who Benefits?" by Adam Reilly, WGBH News: "On Sunday morning, a day after Rep. Joe Kennedy III officially announced that he's running for the Senate seat currently held by fellow Democrat Ed Markey, Myrna Cohen stood in front of an American Legion post in Newton and waved an "Ed MARKEY for US Senate" sign at passing traffic, awaiting Markey's arrival at a gathering of the Newton Democrats. Cohen's motives were twofold. As you'd expect, she's a Markey superfan."
- "In Worcester, Joe Kennedy finds common ground with LGBTQ asylum seekers," by Jeremy C. Fox, Boston Globe: "On a two-day tour of Massachusetts to kick off his campaign for US Senate, Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III spent early Sunday afternoon with perhaps an unlikely group: LGBTQ asylum seekers and recipients who won't be US voters for years, if ever. "Our system needs comprehensive immigration reform," Kennedy told more than 30 immigrants from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community who have received assistance from the LGBT Asylum Task Force based at Hadwen Park Congregational Church."
- "Newton Democrats say Kennedy vs. Markey is a tough choice," by Felicia Gans, Boston Globe: "The US Senate race between Senator Edward J. Markey and Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy III is still in its earliest hours, but at a Sunday morning brunch in Newton featuring Markey as a speaker, it was clear that many locals had already made up their minds. "[Markey's] record is so special," said state Representative Ruth B. Balser, who was honored at Sunday's brunch, along with the Senate majority leader, Cynthia Creem, and state Representative Kay Khan, of the incumbent senator."
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| DAY IN COURT |
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- "Dana Pullman, former state police union head charged in kickback scheme, may seek to 'obstruct justice' if allowed to contact 2 named witnesses, feds say," by Scott J. Croteau, MassLive.com: "Dana Pullman, the former president of the Massachusetts State Police union, who has been indicted on federal charges along with former Beacon Hill lobbyist, Anne M. Lynch, could seek to "obstruct justice" if he is allowed to contact named witnesses in the criminal case, prosecutors said in court records. Pullman, 57, of Worcester, and Lynch, 68, of Hull, were indicted earlier this month in federal court. They are scheduled to appear in a Boston federal court Monday."
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| WARREN REPORT |
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- "Elizabeth Warren Lost Her Dream Job but Gained a Path to 2020," by Alexander Burns, The New York Times: "Elizabeth Warren did not want a goodbye party. She told her aides there would be no grand send-off, no celebration of a mission accomplished. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had been her idea from the start: a new arm of the government, uniquely empowered to police the kinds of loans and financial schemes that led to the Great Recession. Ms. Warren had detailed the idea in a journal article, then cajoled and pressured Congress to make it law. She was tasked by President Barack Obama in 2010 with setting up the bureau, and spent a year recruiting investigators and enforcers for an office they saw as an exhilarating cause. But as spring turned to summer in 2011, Ms. Warren faced a wrenching separation. The White House had decided not to nominate her to lead the bureau permanently. So she gathered the staff for an "all hands" meeting and told them her work there was over."
- "Elizabeth Warren, soaring in Iowa, stresses heartland roots over Harvard pedigree," by Liz Goodwin, Boston Globe: "Pumped-up Iowans wearing "Warren Has a Plan for That" T-shirts stood and clapped as the spritely senator jogged past them, her pink cardigan streaming behind her, and then fell to a hush as she grabbed the microphone. But before Elizabeth Warren talks about her plans, she talks about her past — at least, some of it. "So, I was born and raised in Oklahoma," Warren told her supporters in a sun-dappled backyard in Eastern Iowa on Friday, launching into the story of her father's sudden heart attack that forced her mother to get a minimum-wage job at Sears to pay the mortgage."
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| TRUMPACHUSETTS |
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- "Is Charlie Baker becoming a man without a party?" by Adrian Walker, Boston Globe: "As part of its unceasing campaign for complete political irrelevance, the Massachusetts Republican Party has taken a bold stand denouncing two congresswomen who don't represent Massachusetts. As first reported by CommonWealth magazine, the party, or what's left of it, passed a resolution attacking US representatives Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan for their alleged anti-Semitism. The resolution listed a large number of supposed offenses, many of them imagined or inflated."
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| ABOVE THE FOLD |
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— Herald: "PATS PLAY ON," — Globe: "Casinos seek a new spin on an old game," "Biden was mentioned in call, Trump says." |
| FROM THE 413 |
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- "Take My Council, Please: Enemies of the Good," by Matt Szafranski, Western Mass Politics & Insight: "Queasiness about the city's marijuana process had seemed set to dominate Monday's meeting of the City Council. However, ratification of the first four host community agreements (HCA) flew by with little trouble. Instead, the struggle to reform police oversight stormed back to the fore, exposing divisions among councilors. Opponents see the bill as capitulation to the mayor's illegal abrogation of a duly passed ordinance. Supporters don't disagree, but they counter the Council lacks an avenue to force the mayor to comply. They would rather put Pearl Street's leadership on a legal posture, than expose the city to liability or wait for another party to enter the fray."
- "When the cost of solar is forestland and farms," by Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette: "As the state's Department of Environmental Resources makes a push to expand the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) program and encourage more solar projects to increase the supply of renewable energy, there are questions about whether wooded land, and the carbon sequestration benefits trees offer, will be compromised. This concern has periodically come up in the region, including in Belchertown and Shutesbury, where large stands of trees have been proposed for clear-cutting to make way for photovoltaic panels."
FOR YOUR COMMUTE: Welcome to the Jungle Primary. On this week's Horse Race podcast, Steve Koczela and I run through the top moments from the Massachusetts Democratic state convention in Springfield last weekend. State House News Service reporter Chris Lisinski breaks down a proposed ballot question that aimed to change the way primaries are conducted here, and has the backing of Secretary of State Bill Galvin. And Rich Parr from the MassINC Polling Group gives us the lowdown on how transportation advocates in Western Mass are joining forces. Subscribe and listen on iTunes and Sound Cloud.
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY - to Samantha Power, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and author of "The Education of an Idealist," and Toula Vlahou, who both celebrated Saturday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to Michael Falcone, chief of government affairs for the Massachusetts Charter Public Schools Association; and Joshua Foer, who is 37.
DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? Yes and yes! The Patriots beat the Jets 30-14. The Red Sox beat the Rays 7-4.
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A message from Tobacco Free Kids:
There's a public health crisis spreading across the country - and it's small enough to fit in your kid's pocket.
E-cigarettes are hooking a new generation, thanks to Big Tobacco tricks like slick marketing, massive doses of nicotine, and thousands of kid-friendly flavors. Now, 5 million kids - including 1 in 4 high schoolers - use e-cigarettes. This growing public health emergency threatens decades of progress in lowering youth tobacco use. And it's getting worse.
We're building a nationwide movement to confront this crisis with the bold action our kids deserve. We must take flavored e-cigarettes off the market, stand up to companies like JUUL, and stop this escalating epidemic before it's too late. Learn More. |
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