STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE CANDIDATES IN TWO Massachusetts House races, each apparently decided by only 10 votes, want elections officials to take another look at the thousands of ballots cast. […]
Two House races appear headed for recounts
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We’re in an education crisis. Are we doing anything about it?
MASSACHUSETTS GOT A double dose of bad news this fall with national and state barometers confirming that more than two years of interrupted learning has taken a toll on the […]
Posted inThe Download
GLX manager Dalton gets 6-month contract extension
The MBTA has extended until mid-2023 the contract of the manager overseeing the Green Line extension into Somerville and Medford. The move appears designed to keep John Dalton under contract […]
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GLX manager Dalton gets 6-month contract extension
THE MBTA has extended until mid-2023 the contract of the manager overseeing the Green Line extension into Somerville and Medford. The move appears designed to keep John Dalton under contract […]
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Legendary campaign footsoldier heading to the House
CommonWealth Magazine · After four decades as Democratic foot soldier, Kate Donaghue will be a first-term state rep
Posted inOpinion
Youth success is the key to ending violence
IT’S BEEN HAPPENING almost every week, usually in one of the city’s disadvantaged neighborhoods. Another young man, and sometimes a boy still years from manhood, is shot and often loses […]
Posted inThe Download
Legendary campaign footsoldier heading to the House
WHEN THE LEGISLATURE reconvenes in January, the 160-member House of Representatives will include 21 first-term lawmakers. One of them, however, will stand out from the crowd when it comes to […]
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Legendary campaign footsoldier heading to the House
WHEN THE LEGISLATURE reconvenes in January, the 160-member House of Representatives will include 21 first-term lawmakers. One of them, however, will stand out from the crowd when it comes to […]
Posted inHealth Care
Hoping to deliver at a Massachusetts birth center? Good luck.
KATHERINE RUSHFIRTH, who lives in Lynn, had her first child three years ago with care from the North Shore Birth Center in Beverly, cared for by the same midwives who […]
Posted inTransportation
Don’t break up the T, expand it statewide
FOR AT LEAST seven years, state Rep. William Straus has been shopping the idea that we should abolish the MBTA. Rep. Straus, who is chair of the Joint Committee on […]
Posted inEnergy
Eversource’s turn: Basic service rate up 62% over last winter
EVERSOURCE SAID its eastern Massachusetts basic service rate – the price it charges customers who direct the utility to procure electricity on their behalf – is going to jump to […]
Posted inPolitics
Healey announces transition committee chairs
GOV.-ELECT MAURA HEALEY, whose campaign often addressed issues more with broad brushstrokes than detailed policy prescriptions, announced six transition policy committees on Friday that will be tasked with “translating the […]
Posted inCourts
Baker pardons Amiraults in controversial daycare sex abuse case
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Friday pardoned Gerald Amirault and Cheryl Amirault Lefave, who were convicted of sexually abusing children in a day care center in the 1980s, in a famous […]
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Mass. housing market cooling off, leveling out
Remember the days of crazy bidding wars and waived inspections, with homebuyers desperate to close a sale? It’s looking like those days are over, with a rapidly cooling Massachusetts housing […]
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Mass. housing market cooling off, leveling out
REMEMBER THE DAYS of crazy bidding wars and waived inspections, with homebuyers desperate to close a sale? It’s looking like those days are over, with a rapidly cooling Massachusetts housing […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Mass. police surveillance case could go to Supreme Court
THE ACLU is asking the US Supreme Court to consider a Massachusetts case that could set limits on the police’s ability to conduct long-term camera surveillance without obtaining a search […]
Posted inOpinion
A college president’s assessment of DACA
TEN YEARS AGO, on June 15, 2012, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, directed by President Barack Obama, issued a memorandum to US customs, border, and immigration agencies: “Exercising Prosecutorial […]
Posted inTransportation
Green Line to Medford opening Dec. 12
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ONE FINAL DELAY of a couple of weeks looms, and then the long-awaited second and final Green Line extension branch will open to riders on December […]
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MBTA board ends 2-year hiatus on fare enforcement
THE MBTA board of directors on Thursday voted unanimously to end a two-year hiatus on issuing fines for fare evasion, but most of the members were skeptical the T’s “non-punitive” […]
Posted inThe Download
Congress starts considering marijuana legalization
In early October, President Biden called for a review of whether marijuana should continue to be classified federally among the most dangerous drugs. That review heightened calls for Congress to […]
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Congress starts considering marijuana legalization
IN EARLY OCTOBER, President Biden called for a review of whether marijuana should continue to be classified federally among the most dangerous drugs. That review heightened calls for Congress to […]
Posted inHealth, Health Care, Opinion
Peer-led group support offers a way out of our mental health crisis
WE ARE LIVING through an unprecedented, pandemic-fueled, mass-scale crisis of behavioral health. Deaths from suicide and alcohol and substance use increased 20 percent during the pandemic. Rates of depression and anxiety increased 25 […]
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60% of Mass. high school grads stay, work here
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ABOUT 60 PERCENT of students who graduated from Massachusetts public high schools over the last 10 years were employed in the state years after graduation, according […]
Posted inTransportation
MBTA says ridership won’t be back to normal in 5 years
THE MBTA is not expecting ridership to return to pre-COVID levels within the next five years, even with the addition of new services like the Green Line extension and South […]