Suspending the gas tax would be a shortsighted election-year stunt
The idea, now being pushed by both the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor, sends the wrong message about investing in the transportation infrastructure we all depend on
The state gas tax is the price we pay to ensure that we have safe and reliable ways to get where we need to go, with sufficient funding to build, operate, and maintain the essential transportation infrastructure we all depend upon.
TOP News
Election 2026 event
Voting like your life depends on it
The connection between civic participation and wellbeing
Tuesday, October 6 at 12 pm
Holy Cross
Worcester, Massachusetts
THE CODCAST
‘A disbelief that the disparity could be so wide’
In 2015, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston found that white households in Boston had a median wealth of $247,500, while Black households had a median wealth of close to $0. That was more than ten years ago.
Now, the Boston Fed has released a new report examining the wealth gap across Massachusetts. Have things improved? What trends do we see in the new report? And how has the ongoing affordability crisis affected wealth disparities?
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Commonwealth in depth
The Dean of Massachusetts mayors
Leominster bills itself as ‘a city on the move,’ but it hasn’t elected a new mayor in more than three decades
BY THE NUMBERS
Massachusetts political parties stand by as their membership rolls evaporate
Voters are not rejecting parties. They just don’t have a chance to join.
From the Archives
On Heritage Road
In the heart of suburbia, anxieties about the new economy
