Sagrada Familia in Barcelona: Still under construction 100 years after work began on it. (Photo via Creative Commons/Wikimedia by Katonams) IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE, generations of artisans worked on grand ...
To continue to pretend like our schools are better than they really are is a disservice to students, teachers, families, and ...
Campaign finance records paint a more nuanced picture of who's backing the measure, and color the Bay State as the next front ...
THE PERSONAL AND POLITICAL were inseparable when lawmakers buckled in for the first round of their review of nearly a dozen ballot questions and found themselves, once again, butting heads with a ...
Smaller lots reduce land cost, so they should produce less expensive homes. Sometimes they do. But smaller lots do not ...
IN AUGUST 1960, amid catastrophic population loss and the prospect of vast amounts of federal aid, State House leaders and then-Mayor John Collins struck a deal exempting Boston from most ...
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Question 7 will not transform Massachusetts neighborhoods overnight. But it can give homeowners, builders, and communities ...
Question 7 will not transform Massachusetts neighborhoods overnight. But it can give homeowners, builders, and communities more room to create the smaller homes that zoning has made difficult to build ...
There appears to be little appetite among many in law enforcement for returning to the enforcement practices of the past. Police already face considerable demands on their time and resources, and ...
An early-October burst of spending by opponents of an attempt to eliminate the recreational marijuana industry has pushed the total amount spent on that measure (Question 8) to nearly $6.5 million.
Welcome back to CommonWealth Beacon‘s Election 2026 newsletter run. There is a lot to sort through before you head to the polls on November 3, and much of the space on your ballot will be dedicated to ...