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Chicopee now spends $14.65 million a year on school buses, double what it spent in 2018. Here are the facts about my order to find up to $5 million a year in savings without cutting a single teacher.

A look at state spending Sam flags as wasteful — from migrant sheltering and office leases to branding and rail studies — with a call for stronger oversight and investment in communities like Chicopee.

A vision to revitalize Chicopee’s gateway: safer travel, a beautified corridor, updated zoning, and new investment, drawing on the UMass Amherst study commissioned by the city.

Nearly $1.855 billion went to projects Sam calls unnecessary. Redirected to Chapter 90 roads, bridges, and parks, that money could have transformed Chicopee.