POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: LELLING’s pot guidance —BAKER headed to the airwaves — CommonWealth Magazine ditching print

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POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: LELLING’s pot guidance —BAKER headed to the airwaves — CommonWealth Magazine ditching print

- "Pollack: West Station ridership forecast may be off," by Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine: Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack believes the computer model the state uses to predict future transit ridership is unreliable, at least for projects like the proposed West Station in the Allston area of Boston. In a recent presentation to a group of stakeholders involved with the planning process for a massive highway and transit project in the Allston-Brighton area, Pollack signaled she agreed with the group's skepticism about the model, which is named after the organization that runs it, the Central Transportation Planning Staff, or CTPS."

- "Democrat Jay Gonzalez Criticizes Baker For Border Troops Decision: "It's A Decision That Never Should Have Been Made In The First Place," by Tori Bedford, WGBH: "Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jay Gonzalez criticized Gov. Charlie Baker for his initial decision to send Massachusetts National Guard troops to the Mexican border in accordance with President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy to separate children from their families at the border. 'Right now we've got a governor who has been complicit, in my view, on this anti-immigrant, hateful, cruel, inhumane policies that Trump has been enforcing at the federal level,' Gonzalez said in an interview with Boston Public Radio Tuesday."