The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center took a look at IRS and Census data through 2023 and found that not only did the Massachusetts population increase - even if just very, very slightly - between 2022 and 2023, most of the people who did leave the state were young people and families making under $200,000. The center says this has policy implications - such as tamping down talk of requiring tax breaks to keep the state deflating like a punctured tire (although the center did note the data don't reflect the impact of the rich-people tax).

The Boston Business Journal reports the Rhode Island-based Hasbro is eyeing possible space in downtown Boston for a new corporate HQ. With Lego blocking out space for its new US headquarters in the Back Bay, could Boston be on the verge of becoming the Fun Hub?

Scott Van Voorhis reports on the end of Jay Hurley's long tenure as chairman of the Boston Zoning Commission following the commission's defeat of a Wu proposal for tougher climate-change/emissions rules for new construction in Boston. Read more.

Boston City Councilors ordered up a hearing today at which to press Boston school officials to explain how the new BPS Zum (pronounced "zoom," but for obvious reasons not spelled that way) app that was supposed to make BPS buses run as softly as a cloud instead led to some buses not showing up in the morning for an hour or more - and some kids riding buses home for up to three hours as their poor, befuddled drivers tried to navigate Boston's dropped-bowl-of-spaghetti roads. Read more.

Lisa Kashinsky reports Democratic voters in Suffolk County have picked Allison Cartwright, who has actual legal and managerial experience, as the next Suffolk County clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court. Read more.

CommonWealth Beacon answers the local political question of the year: Why is one of the Supreme Judicial Court's two clerks elected by voters in Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop?

It's a fascinating historical story involving voter anger over the way the SJC back in the day refused to stand in the way of a fugitive slave being re-captured in Boston to be sent back into slavery down south in 1850. Doesn't explain why the post is still elected, but then again, this is Massachusetts, where if we did something once, we are often compelled to do it forever and ever.

A former Boston cop who sued the city over his firing in state court in 2022 last week filed a similar suit in federal court - but added the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association to his list of defendants he says did him wrong. Read more.

DCR is out with its annual Allston Christmas warning for kids and their parents about the river roads.

If you missed the DNC last night, each state's delegation was introduced with a song. Ours was, well, let NPR explain it: Read more.

A little after 8, Gary C. called up a Boston weather map on his Storm Radar app and got a map that Dick Albert would've loved. Rogers noticed it, too.