MASSACHUSETTS VOTERS are on track to decide the most statewide ballot questions in a single cycle in 32 years. That will create a series of follow-up decisions for Beacon Hill. Nine measures are in ...
Why Massachusetts parties are allowing the slow-moving self-destruction to continue is anyone’s guess. One might imagine both ...
Lawmakers this year could move forward with changes to how initiative petitions get on the ballot. Now, other voices are also starting to weigh in, amid a particularly active election cycle for ...
Gov. Maura Healey listens to questions at a legislative hearing about her fiscal year 2027 budget proposal on February 11, 2026. Chris Lisinski/CommonWealth Beacon MOST MASSACHUSETTS VOTERS continue ...
The insurance challenge for coastal states like Massachusetts has been a vexing one. Inflation and tariffs are scrambling ...
The unfolding legal drama marks a major pivot point for a project intended to provide 20 percent of Massachusetts’s ...
The results conclude a nail-biting primary race for the Suffolk and Middlesex District, which became a proxy war over voter ...
ENERGY: Massachusetts utilities companies and a Canadian company responsible for delivering hydropower into New England are locked in a high-stakes legal battle with dueling lawsuits filed this week ...
A new coalition filed paperwork seeking to suspend and ultimately repeal the measure in the 2028 election cycle.