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GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. We re halfway through the week.
CASE DISMISSED A superior court judge has tossed a lawsuit against the state from five failed Republican office-seekers who sought to decertify the 2020 general election results bringing to a close one of the nation’s lesser-known election challenges to the November contest.
Gov. Newsom Proposes $9 Billion for Homelessness
Governor Newsom proposed $9 billion in state funding to purchase hotels, motels and vacant building and convert them into interim or permanent housing. How successful could that program be
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Contact Tracing Diaries
Even though many of us might feel like we ve got more of a handle on the coronavirus pandemic, none of us can forget this unbelievable year. Especially folks who ve really been in the trenches. Lisa Fagundes is normally a librarian at the San Francisco Public Library. But starting last April, she and thousands of other city and state workers were redeployed to become contact tracers, calling people who may have been exposed to the virus. KQED health correspondent April Dembosky met Lisa last spring and asked her to keep an audio diary of her experience.
Mass Audubon promised to preserve wildlife. Then it made millions claiming it could cut down trees
By Lisa Song and James Temple ProPublica and MIT Technology Review,Updated May 10, 2021, 3:31 p.m.
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The Massachusetts Audubon Society has long managed its land in western Massachusetts as crucial wildlife habitat. Nature lovers flock to these forests to enjoy bird-watching and quiet hikes, with the occasional bobcat or moose sighting.
But in 2015, the conservation nonprofit presented Californiaâs top climate regulator with a startling scenario: It could heavily log 9,700 acres of its preserved forests over the next few years.
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Conservationists in California and across the West are deeply skeptical of hydropower, and it’s not hard to see why. There’s a long history of government agencies damming spectacular canyons, choking off rivers, obliterating fish populations and cutting off access to Indigenous peoples. It’s a history detailed in books such as “Cadillac Desert,” and experienced by anyone who has spent time fishing, kayaking or swimming in the region’s reshaped waterways, or hiking alongside them.