ELECTIONS

Durante estas elecciones NEPM News te informará sobre los candidatos, las preguntas en la papeleta, los asuntos importantes y los votantes en el oeste de Massachusetts. ¡Nos gustaría incluir tu opinión!

We hear about grotesque beauty with Monster Arts Project 5, discuss all things music with Jonatha Brooke before her show at the Iron Horse, and McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern.

We reflect on the vice presidential debate from NEPM's watch party on Tuesday, taste the delicious fusion food from the book, "Sabor Judio," with co-author Ilan Stavans, and get nerdy with the wordster.

We learn about Amherst Cinema's Five on Film series highlight talents the area's five college consortium, talk to Local Heroes from Ben & Meg's Farm and Garden Store, and prepare for NEPM's VP debate watch party.

Barring a late write-in opponent for November, Gomez will represent Easthampton, Hadley, South Hadley and part of Granby. No other candidates filed to run for this state House seat in either the Democratic primary or general election.

NEPM News is reporting on the candidates, the ballot questions, the issues and the voters in western Massachusetts — and we'd like to include your thoughts.

Massachusetts voters are juggling a lot of questions on this year's ballot. And if a new WBUR poll is any indicator, things are still very much up in the air.

Opponents of the new gun law in Massachusetts are deep into their campaign to get it repealed, but they have a lot of work ahead.

This week on The Rundown, a look at how town clerks are modernizing elections, a new cybersecurity center in Springfield, and an update on the cleanup of the Housatonic River.

Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, resident Cornelius Shea said it was important to jump in the race when it looked like Rep. Jim McGovern would otherwise run unopposed in November.