Alexi Cohan and Adam Reilly, “Reformists sense momentum as new state legislative session begins,” WGBH, January 2, 2025.

“I appreciate that Spilka and Mariano both seem to be getting the message of the larger Question 1 victory last fall — that voters expect a greater degree of transparency from the Legislature,” Jonathan Cohn, the political director of the group Progressive Mass, told GBH News.

“Reforms like making committee votes and testimony public, which Spilka named, are long overdue and should just be the start,” he added. “Our Legislature really is an outlier among states in its lack of transparency, and we need the Democrats in the Legislature to model what good blue-state governance looks like — that it can be open and ambitious.”