Martina Jackson is one of two plaintiffs (with Ann Roosevelt of Cambridge) filing a lawsuit with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to have a proposed ballot question declared invalid. As reported by the Commonwealth Beacon, the ballot question seeks to replace partisan primary elections in Massachusetts with non-partisan primaries (similar to preliminary elections at the municipal level) that would have only the two most popular candidates, regardless of party, compete in November elections. The lawsuit contends that this would infringe on the rights of candidates to gain a spot on the November ballot as a non-party candidate. The plaintiffs are members of the Democratic State Committee, but the Massachusetts Democratic Party is not associated with the lawsuit. (Jackson is a former board member of Fig City News.)
Claudia Snider graduated with distinction in December from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education with a Bachelor of Science in Educational Policy Studies.
The following students were named to the Dean’s List at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for the Fall 2025 semester: Joseph Christopher Aguzzi, Grace Gladys Alandydy, Lucia Rose Baring-Gould, Talia Barts, Inez Baxter, Henry Patrick Bees, Michal Chana Berlove, Mica Abie Berman, Leonardo Michael Bertolami, Alicia Jin-Ju Black, Nathaniel Max Bloom, Sydney Grace Boucher, Sergio Alejandro Lerma Calderon, Dante Rocco Calderone, Isidora Carcamo, Massimo William Carrieri, Ashley Marie Cerone, Ashe Chan, Christian Chau, Kaitai Brendon Chen, Adam Christianson, Reese Hughes Cote, Risa Halley Cove, Ross Thomas Curran, Maria Antonia Kuenerz de Aguiar, Emma Henia Eilon, Irini Antonia Eliopoulos, Alexander James Elvin, Jake Davis Ezrin, Nora McCarthy Fine, Michael Joseph Fitzgerald, Conor Patrick Flaherty, Vanessa Donna Forsythe, Isabella Forte, Isabel Dorothy Frassica, Shain Jordan Friedman, Amanda Zhang Furbacher, Aaheli Gangopadhyay, Steven Ruidi Gao, Grey Luc St. Germain, Matthew Charles McManus Gillen, Isadora Michelle Gimmelfarb, Ricardo Hernan Gomez, Nicolai Ryan Graves, Dylan Kobe Gray, Douglas Greenbaum, Jin Benjamin Greene, Nicolas Ethan Hart, Mark Hemment, Elizabeth Grace Hennessy, Avigael Heschel-Aronson, Cyrus Conaway Hoeschele, Sawyer Conaway Hoeschele, Steven Hu, Shirley Huang, Isabella Reilan Ishanyan, Rohan Raj Iyengar, Joshua Nathaniel Jackson, Ayanna Isabella James-Ghachem, Faisal Immanuel James-Ghachem, Tia Mary Joseph, Benjamin Noah Kalis, Sreeniyathi Kasireddy, Hailey Marie Kaufman, Niko Keller-Go, Mark Michael Khrapunovich, Noah Kirby, Estelle Perkins Kohn, Vivian Jane Kritzer, Joshua Kurland, Veniamin Kushkov, Flint Kuznetsov, Michelle Labun, Zeve Tzvi Lakein, Paloma Grace Lasavilla, Avery Robert Lau, Dai Minh Le, Hwaeun Lee, Hwayoung Lee, Josephine Kennedy Lee, Jessica Anne Levinson, Jadeson Li, Katie Lin, Vivian Lin, Wan Yin Luk, Julia Ma, Leila Claire Naguib Maclean, Grace Fuwen Campbell Maillet, Arya Manda, Ella Rose Meirav, Bianca Mints, Maia Fiona Mints, Anna Alexis Loomis Moore, Joseph Murphy, Elias Bassim Nassar, Oliver Nicholas Neuberg, Matilda Emilie Neuffer, Samuel Newman, Cory Nguyen, Ben Ethan Nir, Brendan Dunn O’Guin, Caden O’Neil, Maille O’Neil, Sedam Park, Siya Minal Patel, Anthony Brigham Qiu, Eli Harry Rabson, Arjun Rajapur, Mohan Dhruv Ram, Luke K Rattanavijai, Sawyer Bradyn Reitz, Eva Leila Riesenburger, Lucas Michael Rishikof, Lauren Katherine Robb, Mikael Rotberg, Maeve E Ruane, David Samaan, Carina Rose Santucci, Jace Sawicka, Gaia Dafna Segre, Woojin Seo, Emily Vivian Shaw, Isaac Shaw, Chun Shek, Eric Lee Shen, Ron Shilovitsky, Dor Shitrit, Sophie Shkolnik, Thomas Clark Shortsleeve, Aman Preet Singh, Maxwell Slater, Jared Small, Taesung Hwang Smith, Nathan Jeffrey Smith-Michaels, Darren Azizulfiqar Soebagjo, Jillian Grace Solari, Ido Spigelman, Nicholas Christopher Spinelli, Mila Yana Splawska, Noya Stessel, Robin Stevens, William Glenn Stevens, Daniel Jerome Stolow, Evan Daniel Stotsky, Fulin Tacettin, Tomer Tal, Benjamin Wong Tang, Misaki Tatsumi, Preslava Petrova Tchesnovsky, Yonatan Tevet-Markelevich, Joshua Thompson, Robert Walker Thurston, Emma Tian, William Rue Truncer, Isabella Tsareva, Emma Jane Vaughn, Paxton Jay Volpe, Luka Andrei Vorobyov, Jillian Rae Welbourn, Leo Windels, Einav Wolf, Allison See-Kay Wu, Ashlyn Yanhs, Angela Yee, Brandon Yee, Christopher Allen Yee, Dylan Justin Yee, Alexandra Rachel Youman, Daniel Youman, Alexander Toossi Zacarias, Yuli Ziblat, Talia Sophie Zolondick, Shihui Angela Zou, and Irene Zuniga.
