Lessons – and opportunities – from starter home ballot question loss
Communities that supported the measure should take the opening for change into their own hands
As Democrats across the country celebrated historic election victories as a mandate to tackle affordability, here in deep-blue Massachusetts voters rejected a tangible solution to one of the biggest drivers of our affordability crisis: housing costs.
While Democrats are celebrating, pollsters are breathing sighs of relief
The fact that the results broadly matched pre-election surveys has to be heartening for pollsters, an often-beleaguered and much-criticized cohort.
PODCASTS
Your Massachusetts midterm rundown
On this episode of The Codcast, we get listeners all caught up on the political landscape in Massachusetts and around the country heading into the crucial 2026 midterm elections.
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Commonwealth in depth
The Dean of Massachusetts mayors
Leominster bills itself as ‘a city on the move,’ but it hasn’t elected a new mayor in more than three decades
BY THE NUMBERS
Here’s why you should view polling results on ballot questions differently than polls on races between candidates
The share of respondents saying they favor a question is a better predictor of the election outcome than the gap between ‘yes’ and ‘no’
From the Archives
On Heritage Road
In the heart of suburbia, anxieties about the new economy
