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The Department of Homeland Security late last week decided to end its collective bargaining agreement with TSA workers, saying they will have more “organizational agility” without a union. That means thousands of airport security workers — including those at Logan Airport — are no longer covered by union protections. Their contract was supposed to last through 2031.

“We were the check and balance of unbridled power of management,” Mike Gayzagian, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 2617, told GBH’s Trajan Warren. “And it was actually working very well. But the administration changed at the top and they have different ideas and they don’t like the unions.”

The move will likely face legal challenges. Nationally the union pointed to Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for governing published in 2023, the Associated Press reported. Its authors had called for ending the TSA union and privatizing the agency responsible for airport security altogether.

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The number of parents claiming religious vaccine exemptions for their school-aged children has gone up 500% in Massachusetts since the 1980s, despite overall religious affiliation going down. With a measles outbreak in Texas, a group in Massachusetts is trying to get lawmakers here to better track school vaccination rates and do away with the religious exemption. “This is one concrete thing that we can do here in the commonwealth to ensure that we prevent preventable diseases,” Rep. Andy Vargas said.

Massachusetts is losing $12.2 million in federal funds used to buy fresh food from local farms for school meals. Legislators told the State House News Service they have no immediate plans for replacing that funding. “Schools across Massachusetts have used that funding to really invest in local businesses over the past couple of years,” Sarah Carroll, president of the School Nutrition Association of Massachusetts, told GBH News. “And it’s really made a huge impact to our programs to be able to show our students where the food is coming from, but also to be able to invest that money back into our own state.”

What’s next for Everett after the city council voted “no confidence” in Mayor Carlo DeMaria’s leadership? A lot is unclear: DeMaria didn’t attend the council meeting and has yet to respond to the vote. He’s previously stated that he will not repay the$180,000 in longevity bonuses for completing his terms, which he himself established, despite the state’s inspector general finding them to be improper. One thing the council has decided: They’ll be moving forward with a proposal for mayoral term limits, which would have to go through the state legislature for approval.

So long, Twin Donuts: After seven decades in business, Twin Donuts in Allston — known for its nostalgic neon sign and its comforting breakfast food — will close its doors on March 23. Neighbors and friends are paying their respects to the neighborhood staple. One of them, a man named William Anthony, who owns Model Cafe across the street, said his father had rented the space to Twin Donuts’ original owner, George Geskos. “My father suggested the name Twin Donuts because my brother and I are twins, and we were born in 1953,” Anthony said. “It’s sad to see the donut shop go. I’d like to buy that sign, but I don’t know where I’d put it.”

Local Gannett-owned websites are using AI to help write articles

If you live west of Boston and are a regular reader of your local newspaper’s website, you may have noticed a note on the bottom of some stories recently saying the article was created by a local reporter, Beth McDermott, with the assistance of artificial intelligence.

Beth McDermott is a real person who works for media giant Gannett, which publishes the MetroWest Daily News, Milford Daily News and Wicked Local, along with USA TODAY and hundreds of other papers nationwide. The company has been using a generative AI tool called Espresso to turn community announcements into articles.

“By leveraging AI, we are able to expand coverage and enable our journalists to focus on more in-depth reporting,” a Gannett spokesperson said in the statement. “With human oversight at every step, AI-assisted reporting meets our high standards for quality and accuracy to provide our readers more valuable content which they’ve always associated with the USA TODAY Network.”

As companies turn to generative AI tools for more, it’s important they think about trust, said Burt Herman, cofounder and principal of the media innovation nonprofit Hack Hackers. Readers won’t be able to tell which parts of the content were reported by a person and which parts were generated by the AI tool, he said, and an AI policy linked at the bottom of each article does little to shed light on that.

“People will mistrust this because it says AI reporter,” he said.

And Gannett is not the only local organization using generative AI: In Arlington, entrepreneurs Winston Chen and David Trilling use generative AI to summarize transcripts of long public meetings. And Patch, another company that publishes local news, uses AI to create their morning newsletters, pulling content from pre-vetted websites.

Read more from Sarah Betancourt and Lisa Wardle’s (human-generated) reporting here.