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Today on The Rundown, panelists discuss the funding impacts of record-low public school enrollment, a controversial battery storage unit coming to Agawam, and transparency, or lack thereof, of public records.

This week Massachusetts state executive and Legislative budget officials are expected to release the consensus tax revenue estimate, a figure that is used in fiscal year 2027 budget proposals.

The city of Springfield will pay close to $15 million in settlements after two students in the school system reported their teacher harassed and sexually assaulted them.

A plot line that was developing a year ago, overshadowed 2025 by a long shot: President Donald Trump's return to the White House and its impact on Beacon Hill.

The number crunchers on Beacon Hill began the state budgeting process. The consensus revenue hearing determined cautious growth is ahead in Massachusetts.

Lawmakers will peer into the future and guess how much tax revenue Massachusetts can reliably count on to support state spending beginning six months from now and running through June 2027.

Today on The Rundown, panelists discuss legal social cannabis consumption coming to Mass., a lack in racial diversity in western Mass. public offices, and stalled development of Sublime Systems expansion in Holyoke following a grant rescission.

Campbell, in her first term in office, attended a fundraiser for her re-election campaign in Northampton, Mass., recently. She currently has no challengers from either party.

Last week Mass. Gov. Maura Healey signed the 104-page $2.3 billion supplemental budget. Her requested FIFA World Cup tournament funding for next year's games in Foxborough was halved.

The next deadline for state agencies to submit their report to MassDEP is March 1, 2026.