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The latest releases, events, and articles from across MassINC.

  • Gateway City Leadership and Electoral Politics, Part I

    <iframe width="100%" height="20" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/715429849&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true"></iframe>A new MassINC-Tisch College of Civic Life report examines the state of leadership and governance in Massachusetts. The groundbreaking study reveals a number of structural challenges, many of which are especially problematic for Gateway Cities. In the

  • Lighting up Lawrence: how one city is using public art to celebrate and continue its economic growth

    <iframe width="100%" height="20" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/711850948&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true"></iframe>This week on Gateways, Tracy sits down with some of the members of Iluminación Lawrence, a public and private partnership responsible for lighting up Lawrence. The project’s soft launch in June unveiled LED light displays artistically illuminating the Casey Bridge and the face of the Ayer Mill Clock Tower.

  • Massachusetts government is stubbornly unrepresentative

    Report calls on Legislature to remedy structural forces that keep women, people of color, and Republicans from winning elected office

  • MassForward

    Advancing Democratic Innovation and Electoral Reform in Massachusetts

  • Regional Rail’s Visionary Dreamers

    The Gateway Cities Journal

  • MassINC Insights, Part II

    <iframe width="100%" height="20" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/707899720&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true"></iframe>In this second installment of MassINC Insights, we hear from the journalists and thought leaders of MassINC about the education funding debate.As lawmakers on Beacon Hill approach agreement on a school finance package, MassINC members dig in to the history of Massachusetts school funding that’s led

  • TTOD Competition

    Community Engagement Update

  • Drafting an Action Plan for Early College Expansion

  • Exploring School-Centered Neighborhood Revitalization

    <iframe width="100%" height="20" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/708354103&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true"></iframe>Last month's hearing on the Gateway Cities legislative caucus' neighborhood stabilization bill sparked a lot of interest. But news coverage mostly dealt with the legislation’s housing tools. The bill also includes provisions to encourage school-centered approaches to neighborhood revitalization.

  • MassINC Insights

    <iframe width="100%" height="20" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/704939518&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true"></iframe>This week on Gateways, we bring you an episode of MassINC Insights, the first installment in a series of conversations with the journalists, researchers, and pollsters of MassINC, The MassINC Polling Group and CommonWealth. The nonprofit consistently leads the way in producing nonpartisan research and