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Dorchester Reporter

City tax increase looms amid talks between Wu and Beacon Hill leaders

Evan Horowitz, executive director of cSPA, is quoted from testimony he gave at a Boston City Council Ways and Means Committee hearing on ways to ease a possible crunch for homeowners and businesses triggered by a national downturn in market values for commercial properties.
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BBC

The truth behind Trump’s biggest illegal voter claim

Newhouse Professor of Civic Studies Brian Schaffner defends data from the Cooperative Election Study (of which he is co-principal investigator), which informed a 2014 article claiming that large populations of non-citizens voted in the 2008 and 2010 elections. Schaffner notes “it’s not possible to draw statistical conclusions from a relatively small number of survey participants.”
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HuffPost

Get In Loser, We're Going Voting: How Young Women Are Shifting Left

Abby Kiesa of CIRCLE comments on increased civic engagement among young women saying, “The last presidential election, we saw young women turn out at rates higher than their peers who identify as men in every race and ethnicity for which we had data.” Multiple CIRCLE studies are referenced.