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For Springfield Courthouse, Is All DCAMM Saying Is Give Lease a Chance…?

Earlier this month, a state agency with an officious name, the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM), held two public hearings about the replacing the Hampden County Courthouse. These were not about where the state might put the now-styled Springfield Regional Justice Center, which would replace the deteriorating, musty and ostensibly unsafe Brutalist incumbent.

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The Inspector General Is in—and out in the Commonwealth…

BOSTON—On June 18, Massachusetts Inspector General Jeffrey Shapiro grabbed headlines with a call to put the Cannabis Control Commission into receivership. The legislature did not advance Shapiro’s proposal, but his office had another significant impact earlier in the year.