IF REPLACING single-family zoning with two-family zoning sounds like a major change for communities across Massachusetts, in this case one plus one could equal three. A provision included in the state ...

The change, if implemented, would “dramatically and inaccurately favor southern states where many northern residents, sometimes called snowbirds, spend some or all of the months of December through ...

Roughly 55 percent of Massachusetts adults who have opioid use disorder and are enrolled in MassHealth will need to satisfy new federal work requirements outlined in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Regular people’s ability to sue businesses for the alleged violation of a law is called private right of action, and it is a necessary inclusion if the future Massachusetts data privacy law is to ...

As lawmakers debate the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, they should be careful not to adopt an approach that unintentionally ...

Regular people’s ability to sue businesses for the alleged violation of a law is called private right of action, and it is a necessary inclusion if the future Massachusetts data privacy law is to ...

At Northern Essex Community College in Haverhill, Danielle Allen, a Harvard University professor who founded the group advancing Question 3, and Jordan Berg Powers, chair of Voter Rights MA, which is ...

Schools can apply for funding and then use it for "age-appropriate" classroom instruction, materials, educator training and ...

Massachusetts public schools are entering an era of fewer children and students, but the causes and consequences of that ...

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 ...

The Tobin Bridge looms over homes in Chelsea. (Photo by Michael Jonas) CHELSEA IS JOINING a growing list of Massachusetts cities to consider whether the road to more housing runs through fewer parking ...