Massachusetts public schools are entering an era of fewer children and students, but the causes and consequences of that ...
LAWMAKERS HAVE SPENT MONTHS whispering concerns that ballot questions to subject them to the public records law and to reform the system of legislative stipends are unconstitutional, and now senators ...
The complexity of our few bills tells us very little, if anything, however, about the quality of the bills or of the process that produced them. In fact, the complexity of bills covering multiple ...
Democracy depends on being able to give positive and negative reinforcement to elected officials. Constituents should be able to praise legislators for what they do right and criticize them for what ...
The modern trend of relying on omnibus bills for routine legislative work is not a neutral choice. It turns a simple democratic process into a labyrinthine ordeal.
MASSACHUSETTS HAS DONE this before. It’s time to do it again. In 1993, when the Commonwealth confronted an economy reshaped by globalization and information technology, it did something remarkably ...
Massachusetts public schools are entering an era of fewer children and students, but the causes and consequences of that decline look markedly different depending on where a district is located.
Voters in the deep-blue state are sometimes open to a gesture toward bipartisanship through a Republican governor that could, at least in theory, square off against a Democratic supermajority in the ...
It’s a very difficult sell to make to anybody that the Legislature and governor shouldn’t be subject to the public records ...
Nolan’s comments that Healey will tone down her rhetoric after the election stand in stark contrast to Healey’s pitch to ...
Across the country, cities are abandoning their parking minimums and hoping to end up with fewer parking lots and walkable, ...