What made The Short List this week?

• Big Headlines for 2015: Voter Turnout, Viaduct Construction
• Fewer Headlines in 2015: Chinese-owned CRRC USA Rail Corp., Springfield Historical Commission/Historical Preservation
• What’s Ahead for 2016? Connecticut’s Third Casino and Springfield’s MGM Casino.

Click the audio player above to hear New England Public Radio’s Carrie Healy explore these issues with Matt Szafranski of of the Western Mass Politics & Insight blog and The Reminder’s Mike Dobbs.