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Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

A democratic knockout for the ages! If you missed our election night commentary, or just want to relive the memories, here it is in full! Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

Discussing different debates from the midterm election season! Why they're so important, what we can learn about the candidates, and how they can change someone's mind. Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

Further Reading: Are you as intrigued by Troy Jackson's accent as I am? Let's walk through it together! Question 8: Prohibit Retail Sale of Adult Recreational Use Marijuana - LINK Question 9: Firearm Regulation - LINK Tiktok.com/@slarrrry - Resource on Mass Questions! Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

REMEMBER TO VOTE!!!! Mass residents can vote early RIGHT NOW!! Unfortunately at this point you cannot register or change your voter registration before election day. Thoughts on Q7 from Mike Moriarty, someone with knowledge about housing in Massachusetts: I support Question 7. I'm voting yes, and I'd encourage others to do the same. For far too long, local planning boards, select boards and city councils have stood in the way of new housing through restrictive zoning, oversized lot requirements, and local bylaws and permitting requirements that add cost and delay. The Affordable Homes Act of 2024 helped by overriding some of the worst excesses, notably by allowing accessory dwelling units by right statewide. Question 7 does more of the same, and it is badly needed as long as the housing shortage keeps driving people out of Massachusetts. On the specifics: it would allow a single-family home by right on any lot of at least 5,000 square feet (a bit under one-eighth of an acre) with 50 feet of frontage, in districts already zoned residential, as long as the lot has public water and sewer. There's no depth requirement, so it isn't strictly 50x100, though that's the practical effect. Towns keep control over height, setbacks, parking and short-term rentals. Today, more than half the single-family-zoned land in the state requires lots of roughly an acre or more. Your environmental instinct is right, and it cuts in favor of the question. Smaller lots on existing water and sewer mean less land consumed per home, shorter infrastructure runs and less sprawl. The sewer requirement steers growth toward places already built to absorb it. The best of it: smaller lots lower the land cost per home, which makes room for modest starter homes for first-time buyers and for seniors who want to downsize, instead of pushing builders toward big houses on big lots to justify the land. The small homes I helped bring to Holyoke with UMass DesignBuild (the Hygge House, Paper House and 8th Sister) show what a well-designed modest house on a modest lot can look like. The honest caveats: it doesn't guarantee affordability, and in high-cost towns new homes may still be expensive. It does nothing where there's no public sewer, which covers much of Western Massachusetts outside the cities. In older cities like Holyoke, where much of the housing already sits on small lots, I'd expect the bigger change in the suburbs rather than here. And critics, including the Massachusetts Municipal Association, raise fair concerns about local control and whether a sewer hookup means the system has capacity. None of that outweighs the cost of standing still, because of the impacts of the housing affordability crisis on struggling families . Single-family homes aren't the whole answer; we need multifamily housing, ADUs and the MBTA Communities law working too. But this is one more door we should open. Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

On tonight show we got to speak with Elizabeth Dionne, Republican candidate for State Massachusetts State Treasurer. The Treasurer is a position that most people don't know about, but is really important to think about! A reminder to all Mass residents: Early Voting started on October 17th, and mail in ballots are being sent out to everyone. Remember to vote as soon as you can through ballot drop off, mail, or early voting. If you aren't registered, you have until October 24th! To find out more about Elizabeth Dionne: Webwite: https://votedionne.comTwitter: @VoteDionneMATikTok: tiktok.com/@votedionnemaFacebook: fb.com/votedionne Further Reading: Why progressives should vote for a Republican for Treasurer - LINK Forward Party Candidate Pledge - LINK Watchdog: Massachusetts Treasurer’s Office hiding $450 million in unclaimed property - LINK (Boston Herald) Question 5: State Revenue Limit & Rebate - LINK Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

Further Reading: Question 3: Change to State Primary Elections to Open Primary Question 4: Election Same Day Registration Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

Its october in an election year, so its time for ballot questions!! This episode we cover Questions 1 (expanding the open records law) and 2 (allow public defenders to unionize) Further Reading: Trump's $500 Obamacare 'rebate' checks land in prime political battlegrounds - LINK Information for Voters - 2026 Ballot Questions - LINK Question 1: Mass. initiative would put governor and lawmakers under state public records law - LINK Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

OneHolyoke CDC leader recognized for education advocacy impact - LINK Rosa ‘ready to lead’ as OneHolyoke’s new executive director - LINK Healey signs early literacy reform law - LINK Chapter 113 - An Act relative to teacher preparation and student literacy (Bill Text) - LINK This year's student MCAS scores dip again, continuing trend since pandemic - LINK

Mass residents remember to register to vote by OCTOBER 24th! Go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ Further Reading: Supreme Court rejects Trump mail ballot restrictions ahead of midterms - LINK Talarico backtracks controversial gender comments, pushes for Supreme Court overhaul - LINK UT students attacked by Bo French call his comments “disgusting” and too familiar - LINK Karl Rove, the GOP strategist behind George W. Bush's political career, is voting for a Democrat - LINK Stadium owner Robert Kraft says Ed Sheeran asked him to donate $2m in aid after Macklemore backlash - LINK How Ed Sheeran's tour became a flashpoint over Gaza and free speech - LINK Ed Sheeran Philadelphia Tickets Slashed By Nearly 50% Following Macklemore ‘Free Palestine’ Controversy - LINK Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program - LINK Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

Further Reading: Fed's Kevin Warsh warns inflation is too high, sparking bets rate hikes are coming - LINK ICE arrested 50,000 people in July – quietly the biggest month in Trump’s second term - LINK Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

Further Reading: Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state - LINK Election highlights: Byron Donalds and David Jolly to face off in Florida governor’s race; Democratic socialist scores upset in Senate primary - LINK So how is the social media ban going? - LINK (r/AskAnAustralian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL7C9M531XE Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!

Israeli settlers’ siege of Palestinian homes draws a sharp US rebuke - LINK Activists try to deliver aid to Palestinians in homes besieged by Israeli settlers - LINK New poll: 38% of Jewish Israelis back annexing West Bank, 35% want to divide it up - LINK Overwhelming Majority of Jews (93%); Minority of Arabs (26%) Support Operation in Iran (total sample: 82%) - LINK Hugh Hefner reported Jeffrey Epstein to FBI for alleged rape of Playboy Playmate - LINK Beginning Music: Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variation #5Ending Music: Electronic - Getting Away With it (Instrumental) Remember to Register to vote! Mass Residents should go to: https://www.sec.state.ma.us/ele/ For more Civil Politics visit our website, civilpoliticsradio.com! If you want to get alerted to new episodes on social media, follow our Bluesky: @CivilPoliticsRadio.com Don't miss another episode - subscribe to our podcast (iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, and more!) This podcast is a member of the Planetside Podcast Network. Visit PlanetsidePodcasts.com to find other Planetside Productions!