Martina Jackson is one of two plaintiffs (with Ann Roosevelt of Cambridge) filing a lawsuit with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to have a proposed ballot question declared invalid. As reported by the Commonwealth Beacon, the ballot question seeks to replace partisan primary elections in Massachusetts with non-partisan primaries (similar to preliminary elections at the municipal level) that would have only the two most popular candidates, regardless of party, compete in November elections. The lawsuit contends that this would infringe on the rights of candidates to gain a spot on the November ballot as a non-party candidate. The plaintiffs are members of the Democratic State Committee, but the Massachusetts Democratic Party is not associated with the lawsuit. (Jackson is a former board member of Fig City News.)
Claudia Snider graduated with distinction in December from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education with a Bachelor of Science in Educational Policy Studies.
The following students were named to the Dean’s List at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for the Fall 2025 semester: Joseph Christopher Aguzzi, Grace Gladys Alandydy, Lucia Rose Baring-Gould, Talia Barts, Inez Baxter, Henry Patrick Bees, Michal Chana Berlove, Mica Abie Berman, Leonardo Michael Bertolami, Alicia Jin-Ju Black, Nathaniel Max Bloom, Sydney Grace Boucher, Sergio Alejandro Lerma Calderon, Dante Rocco Calderone, Isidora Carcamo, Massimo William Carrieri, Ashley Marie Cerone, Ashe Chan, Christian Chau, Kaitai Brendon Chen, Adam Christianson, Reese Hughes Cote, Risa Halley Cove, Ross Thomas Curran, Maria Antonia Kuenerz de Aguiar, Emma Henia Eilon, Irini Antonia Eliopoulos, Alexander James Elvin, Jake Davis Ezrin, Nora McCarthy Fine, Michael Joseph Fitzgerald, Conor Patrick Flaherty, Vanessa Donna Forsythe, Isabella Forte, Isabel Dorothy Frassica, Shain Jordan Friedman, Amanda Zhang Furbacher, Aaheli Gangopadhyay, Steven Ruidi Gao, Grey Luc St. Germain,…