What made The Short List this week?

• Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse supports the marijuana legalization ballot question.
• We look at Zika, and the opioid crisis, in terms of funding.
• And we put a spotlight on some overlooked stories of the week.

Click the audio player above to hear New England Public Radio’s Carrie Healy explore these issues with Cynthia Simison, managing editor of the Springfield Republican newspaper and with Western Mass Politics and Insight editor Matt Szafranski.