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Steve Koczela

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President of

@MassINCPolling

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. Iraq veteran.

Boston MAJoined December 2010

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"CRRC was supposed to deliver all 252 new Red Line cars by this September, but so far has delivered only 12."

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MBTA interim GM paints dire picture of crippling delays in delivery of Red and Orange Line cars. T board asks no questions. commonwealthmagazine.org/transportation

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We think of the universe as one universe oriented toward Boston

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Voters wanted millionaire tax money to go transportation and education, but what should be the split? 50-50 or leave it to lawmakers?

commonwealthmagazine.org

Millionaire surtax: What’s the split between education, transportation? - CommonWealth Magazine

THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT approved by voters in November establishes a 4 percent income tax surcharge on income over $1 million, and directs that the money should go to transportation and educat...

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David Rothschild

In short: Blue Lines Good, Red Lines Bad.

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I feel seen. Literally, all I want is: A camp. Any camp. That is… nominally affordable. And lasts for the majority of the workday.

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NEW: I wrote for @TheAtlantic about the absurdity of the January summer camp scramble and what that says about the American approach to supporting families (or not). theatlantic.com/family/archive

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🚨 New #KYGOV Poll by Mason-Dixon Polling Beshear (D) 49% Cameron (R) 40% Beshear (D) 52% Quarles (R) 35% Beshear (D) 53% Harmon (R) 33% Beshear (D) 57% Craft (R) 32%

courier-journal.com

Poll: Andy Beshear tops 4 key Republican candidates in 2023 Kentucky governor's election

Yet another poll brings good news for Gov. Andy Beshear, who's up for reelection this year. It offers interesting data on the Republican primary, too.

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"Mass. statewide poll finds the two most salient issues among Latinos are related to affordability." We also talked to Mass. Latino elected officials for this project, who identified the same set of priorities as Latino residents. massincpolling.com/the-topline/am

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Massachusetts is way ahead of the game here.

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Arizona lawmakers vote to exempt themselves from state public record laws. Wow. wmicentral.com/news/legislatu

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Gathering an n=1,203 sample of Latino residents of MA allowed us to break down the data in ways we normally wouldn't be able to. For example, here is how priorities break down based on place of birth. Lots of consistency. Good sized gaps on immigrant rights, abortion rights.

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I've noticed people in the Boston area often think of MA as 1 state oriented toward Boston, rather than a set of regions oriented in all different directions. 91 region north and south / into CT & VT, Western MA with NY, Fall River area toward RI, etc.

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"We have a regional economy in Western Mass, and a loss for Connecticut is a loss for Western Mass." #mapoli masslive.com/springfield/20

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Among all games played on Lichess, this is the game where the mated player had the biggest material advantage 👀 lichess.org/yWzjvFI2

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Marcela E. García

Thank you! Huge credit to

who commissioned this overdue poll. And to

@MassINCPolling

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for doing the work.

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@AdamBassOfMass

But I digress. This article and study is about learning and understanding Latinos and Latinas in Massachusetts—a group often not discussed or listened to very much in our political conversation. Well done @marcela_elisa .

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That's not to say Latino residents of MA oppose the items at the bottom of the list (they do not). But the most important things are housing, healthcare, jobs, and education. Housing is a new addition, but the other 3 have been at the top of most of our polls for a long time.

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Something that happens a lot in policy polling is when you list things, people say everything on the list is important. But what if you force tradeoffs as to what most? Then what's at the top? Here what Latinos in MA said. static1.squarespace.com/static/5eb9fa2

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The poll covered politics, policy, civic engagement, and much more. Latino residents lean much more toward Democrats in MA, but there are a whole lot up for grabs.

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New from us for

: very large new poll of Latino residents in MA, 2 focus groups, and interviews with Latino elected officials in MA. Tons to dig into. Toplines, tabs, slides, quotes, all right here.

massincpolling.com

Mass. statewide poll finds the two most salient issues among Latinos are related to affordability —...

Largest ever Latino-focused poll on civic engagement and economic prosperity in the Commonwealth. View topline (PDF) View crosstabs (Excel) Amplify Latinx, Massachusetts-based nonprofit non-partisan,...

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And as always, the statements from the T are bland and unhelpful as to what's actually happening.

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T is closing part of the OL to work on slow zones it said it eliminated, but didn't, during last year's unprecedented shutdown of the whole line. At least 3/6 slow zones the T said it eliminated still had speed restrictions in place as of Jan 4. bostonglobe.com/2023/01/25/met

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A big thing we’ve been working on is now out!

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Marcela E. García

A new survey of Latino residents of Mass. is considered to be the largest and most comprehensive ever & sheds light on their views on various policy and civic engagement issues. The poll was commissioned by @AmplifyLatinx and done by @MassINCPolling: massincpolling.com/the-topline/am

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Marcela E. García

A new survey of Latino residents of Mass. is considered to be the largest and most comprehensive ever & sheds light on their views on various policy and civic engagement issues. The poll was commissioned by

and done by

@MassINCPolling

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massincpolling.com

Mass. statewide poll finds the two most salient issues among Latinos are related to affordability —...

Largest ever Latino-focused poll on civic engagement and economic prosperity in the Commonwealth. View topline (PDF) View crosstabs (Excel) Amplify Latinx, Massachusetts-based nonprofit non-partisan,...

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The last Color of Wealth survey report was based on almost comically small sample sizes given the impact and visibility. The ENTIRE survey was only n=403, and covered the whole Boston MSA, which extends across most of Eastern MA and into Southern NH. bostonfed.org/publications/o

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This will come alongside an update and dramatic expansion to the survey that produced the very widely reported wealth gap statistics. A $1.5M survey project with n=5000, a 30-40 min questionnaire, multi-mode, multi-lingual, oversamples, etc.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe has received a $750,000 grant from the Barr Foundation to launch an ambitious initiative to deepen the paper’s coverage of the racial wealth gap in Greater Boston and how to address it, Globe editor Brian McGrory announced Wednesday. trib.al/lDdqIMe

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I just think we just need more Brutalist LEGO sets…future Architecture series?🧐

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LEGO headquarters are moving to MA and I just saying this is an opportunity for Boston.

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An outrage.

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Rep. George Santos’ promised “surprise” for journalists today:

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One rider, identifying himself only as “Adam,” told a Globe reporter he would use “all the bad words” to describe the experience. I assume this is

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"The new electronic fare gates at North Station have proven to be more frustrating than convenient for some passengers, who used words such as 'terrible,' 'inconvenient,' and 'aggravating' to describe their experience." by @ashsoebroto bostonglobe.com/2023/01/24/met

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The methodology which put Mass. as the 6th most romantic state is an elaborate 4 factor methodology based on ... 1. Valentines Day spending 2. Happy emoji usage 3. Marriage rates 4. Divorce rates So ... (stares into middle distance) wisevoter.com/state-rankings

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Which is 6 hours a week and 300 hours a year (roughly). Or, put another way, about 7% of the workday waking hours that remote workers got back.

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Working from home saved workers around the world an average of 72 minutes in commute time every day in 2021 and 2022. trib.al/zC99y8e

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Boston Globe Pitchbot

Report: 330 million Americans find classified documents in homes

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Classified documents found at Pence’s Indiana home, @CNN reports cnn.com/2023/01/24/pol

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Are there any more Special Counsels left?

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Classified documents found at Pence’s Indiana home, @CNN reports cnn.com/2023/01/24/pol

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State House News

@statehousenews

TAX FORECAST: After getting blindsided by tax refunds fueled by an FY 2022 tax collections surge that was outside their radar screens, Beacon Hill leaders on Tuesday are calling the same people back to testify on revenue projections for the upcoming state budget cycle. #mapoli

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LEGO headquarters are moving to MA and I just saying this is an opportunity for Boston.

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The entire

cast is watching The Bachelor for reasons we can’t fully explain.

says she’s team pig. Should we drop a special Tuesday recap and analysis episode?

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35 votesFinal results

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@MilesPerHoward

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My friends, we in Massachusetts are the 6th most romantic state it says so right there on this list from the science. twitter.com/meghanbkelly/s…

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My friends, we in Massachusetts are the 6th most romantic state it says so right there on this list from the science.

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no way mass is rated this high on this dumb list

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G. Elliott Morris

@gelliottmorris

my theory is microsoft is going to bring back clippy and have him write for you directly in microsoft word

Microsoft Adds $10 Billion to Investment in ChatGPT Maker OpenAI

Microsoft Corp. is making a $10 billion investment over several years in OpenAI, the pioneering artificial intelligence research lab behind ChatGPT and DALL-E.

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𝑫𝒊𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒌𝒊…⁰

Replying to

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We know that enough of our national political leaders are fine with Americans shooting each other in large numbers that it will continue into the foreseeable future.

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Never seen anything like this.

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Documents show MassGOP Chairman Jim Lyons spent $1,800 on opposition research into two fellow Republican State Committee members seen as his political rivals. One probe was paid for with party funds and reported to the FEC as "IT Services." New tonight: bostonglobe.com/2023/01/20/met

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Vindicated.

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My eyes!: Boston City Hall called world’s 4th ugliest building in new study boston25news.com/news/local/my-

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When the Celtics forfeit bc their players can't get to the game, then we'll deal with Boston traffic. Only then.

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It took almost 2hrs to get to the game yesterday I live 15 minutes away Boston traffic was so bad I’m still traumatized and felt the need to tweet this lol

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SteveBikes (Bona Fide)

This was worth listening to just to realize how terrible a plan this always was.

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Truly wild stories from the Springfield MBTA car factory this week on @The_HorseRace. @taydolven joins us and tells the tales. soundcloud.com/user-72751714/

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