Sep 30, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min · 16 segments
We go through each of the nine questions on the ballot this year, identifying what the proposed laws would do, the pros and cons of each, and then giving our own opinions.
So question one would expand the public records law.
This proposed law would make most records held by the legislature and the office of the governor public records under the Massachusetts public records law.
A yes vote would make most records.
So it would do exactly what it said.
Make most records held by legislature and the governor public records.
I feel like that's really important to know going into this and maybe and I probably will have it written down somewhere as I go into the ballot, because as we've talked about previously, Ricky, sometimes you're like, what is actually yes doing? What is no doing? So in this case, yes, is making a change.
It's going to expand access to public records under the legislature or under Massachusetts public records law.
I mean, either the legislature or the governor.
The people in favor of this, I'm always kind of interested in both who's in favor of it, who's against it, and who's spending the money on it.
So it's called the Committee for Transparency and Democracy.
The person who wrote the pro for this question is Diana DiZoglio, who is the auditor of Massachusetts.
She was...
Also behind the most popular ballot measure in Massachusetts in 2024, the ballot measure that passed was 72 percent of the vote to audit the legislature, which still hasn't been done yet.
So she's she's continuing on her path.
This is clearly like how she's this is the issue that she wants to stand on in Massachusetts, try to make Massachusetts government more transparent.
We have talked in many an episode how Massachusetts is one of the least transparent government state governments in the country.
To me, Ricky, I guess before I even kick it to you, oh, and there was no one that wrote specifically against it, although the legislature advised not taking action on it and making no change to it, which is not a surprise given how much the legislature does not seem to want to voluntarily become more transparent.
The pro argument is more transparency.
Obviously, the con argument would be it might chill some communication between lawmakers, between fellow legislators before, between people in the governor's office, people in the legislature, between constituents and legislators, between constituents and the governor.
That would potentially...
That would be the argument against it.
To me, this seems like kind of a no-brainer.
I'm not sure that it's going to be a sea change, but any steps that we can take to make Massachusetts government more transparent, in my opinion, cannot hurt.
I'm going to vote for it, and I expect it to pass.
So question one would expand the public records law.
This proposed law would make most records held by the legislature and the office of the governor public records under the Massachusetts public records law.
A yes vote would make most records.
So it would do exactly what it said.
Make most records held by legislature and the governor public records.
I feel like that's really important to know going into this and maybe and I probably will have it written down somewhere as I go into the ballot, because as we've talked about previously, Ricky, sometimes you're like, what is actually yes doing? What is no doing? So in this case, yes, is making a change.
It's going to expand access to public records under the legislature or under Massachusetts public records law.
I mean, either the legislature or the governor.
The people in favor of this, I'm always kind of interested in both who's in favor of it, who's against it, and who's spending the money on it.
So it's called the Committee for Transparency and Democracy.
The person who wrote the pro for this question is Diana DiZoglio, who is the auditor of Massachusetts.
She was...
Also behind the most popular ballot measure in Massachusetts in 2024, the ballot measure that passed was 72 percent of the vote to audit the legislature, which still hasn't been done yet.
So she's she's continuing on her path.
This is clearly like how she's this is the issue that she wants to stand on in Massachusetts, try to make Massachusetts government more transparent.
We have talked in many an episode how Massachusetts is one of the least transparent government state governments in the country.
To me, Ricky, I guess before I even kick it to you, oh, and there was no one that wrote specifically against it, although the legislature advised not taking action on it and making no change to it, which is not a surprise given how much the legislature does not seem to want to voluntarily become more transparent.
The pro argument is more transparency.
Obviously, the con argument would be it might chill some communication between lawmakers, between fellow legislators before, between people in the governor's office, people in the legislature, between constituents and legislators, between constituents and the governor.
That would potentially...
That would be the argument against it.
To me, this seems like kind of a no-brainer.
I'm not sure that it's going to be a sea change, but any steps that we can take to make Massachusetts government more transparent, in my opinion, cannot hurt.
I'm going to vote for it, and I expect it to pass.
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