(From left to right) Fall River mayor Paul Coogan, Taunton mayor Shaunna O'Connell, New Bedford mayor Jon Mitchell, and Brockton mayor Moises Rodrigues at a transportation conference at Bridgewater ...

We've been conditioned for years to read polls based on who is ahead, but we should not apply the same "horse race" lens used in candidate races to ballot question polls.

An early-October burst of spending by opponents of an attempt to eliminate the recreational marijuana industry has pushed the total amount spent on that measure (Question 8) to nearly $6.5 million.

We’ve been conditioned for years to read polls based on who is ahead, but we should not apply the same “horse race” lens used in candidate races to ballot question polls.

The question before Massachusetts voters cannot be reduced to whether firearm regulations should be more or less ...

The question before Massachusetts voters cannot be reduced to whether firearm regulations should be more or less restrictive—it is whether the Commonwealth should preserve an additional pathway for ...

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

The Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a Roman Catholic church, in Mission Hill, Boston on Dec. 10, 2025. (Maria Pemberton / CommonWealth Beacon) AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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