AFTER YEARS OF ADVOCACY, Massachusetts’s minimum hourly wage hit $15 in 2023. And workers groups say it’s already behind the times. “What we’ve seen is that, yes, that minimum wage did increase, but ...

NINE BALLOT QUESTIONS have turned voters’ ballots into booklets this fall, with questions ranging from marijuana policy to voting rules to zoning reform. Not since 1994 have Massachusetts voters had ...

To continue to pretend like our schools are better than they really are is a disservice to students, teachers, families, and ...

PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEMS face daunting challenges across the US, from pandemic ridership losses to traffic congestion, fare evasion and pressure to keep rides affordable. In some cities, including ...

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 ...

Question 7 will not transform Massachusetts neighborhoods overnight. But it can give homeowners, builders, and communities ...

Danielle Allen, a Harvard University professor leading the charge for replacing partisan primary elections in Massachusetts with a single nonpartisan primary, speaks at a debate on the topic ...

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 ...

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.