By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


Progressive causes triumph in at least one state: Massachusetts

Much of the progressive agenda was rejected across America yesterday, but a few progressive causes prevailed here in blue-state Massachusetts, via referendum approval of dropping the MCAS graduation requirement (Question 2) and allowing Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize (Question 3). But it wasn’t a clean progressive sweep: voters rejected the partial legalization of psychedelics (Question 4) and changing the current restaurant tipping-pay structure (Question 5). … Btw: Approval of Question 1, which allows the auditing of the legislature, was definitely a bi-partisan affair, winning more than 70 percent of the vote.

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