Gov. Healey has taken crucial steps to reverse the downward trajectory our transit systems were on. Part of the reason why this has gone unnoticed is that there remains so much to do to bring our ...

FOR THE PAST few years, one of the central debates in Massachusetts politics has been the fight over transparency. From the Democratic state auditor to progressive advocacy groups to the Republican ...

Officials on Beacon Hill are navigating the challenges of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions while confronting high energy costs. (Jennifer Smith/CommonWealth Beacon) FIVE YEARS AGO, ...

Massachusetts isn’t alone in the rising share of households facing energy insecurity around the country, yet the state, as ...

Pollsters asked about the proposed law to eliminate the time limit for filing civil lawsuits related to child sexual abuse. Respondents overwhelmingly said they would strongly (60 percent) or somewhat ...

Democracy reform is personal for me. The first time I walked into the State House, I was a 16-year-old youth organizer ...

Question 3 would eliminate the ability of Bay State parties to police the use of their party labels by candidates in elections and sever the only meaningful accountability link between ...

Ballots are already printed with Oliver's name next to Minogue's as a joint ticket, and over 200,000 voters have already cast ...

For the first time since Barack Obama was president, Massachusetts did not land in dead last in Ballotpedia's biennial ...

Question 3 moves the final decision from the elections that most people ignore to the ones that have high participation ...

The law focuses on the root causes of gun violence to make all Massachusetts communities safer – and it is working.

Danielle Allen, a Harvard University professor who founded the group advancing Question 3, and Jordan Berg Powers, chair of ...