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GREENER GARDENS: DR. KAREN MUNKACY ON VAPE PENS AND CANNABIS BIOSECURITY
We have a very strong focus on education. A lot of people have been buying their medicine in Ziploc bags on the street, and there are a lot of different ways to adjust this.
TALKING JOINTS MEMO: POLITICAL PESTICIDE
Considering last Monday’s testimony from the state Elections Division, prohibitionists may want to wait before pushing ballot measures in cities and towns to prevent legal dispensaries.
POWER STRUGGLE: REGULATORS INFURIATE ACTIVISTS WITH ANNOUNCEMENT THAT POWER PLANT WILL STAY OPEN
Why Mass residents are furious at regulators who say they won’t shut Pilgrim
BROKEN RECORDS: HOW TO EXPOSE BAD GOVERNMENT IN 2017
For the first time in decades, the Commonwealth has a new public records law. Here’s what you need to know…
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: TRASH TO TABLE
Everything you didn’t want to know about cannibal swine and trash feeding, from Mass to the UK
THREAT LEVEL: HYPOTHETICAL
It was a standard public information request … until the state set up a maze to block one intrepid reporter’s access to records
TALK TO THE HAND (BECAUSE BILL GALVIN AIN’T LISTENIN’)
Secretary holds sham hearing on records access
HOMEGROWN CONSPIRACIES: SATAN STALKS MASS HOUSE RACE
The current Republican election campaign is bubbling over with rumors, half-baked theories, and outright lies—this from the Donald Trump stovetop to the bottom baking rack.
UMASS CAMBRIDGE: MAKING HARVARD UNIVERSITY PUBLIC WILL SOLVE ITS WORKERS’ PROBLEMS—AND THE COMMONWEALTH’S HIGHER ED CRISIS
If you really want to help the Harvard dining hall workers and much of the population of Massachusetts in the bargain, help start political movements to demand structural reform of the state university system.