Danielle Allen, a Harvard University professor who founded the group advancing Question 3, and Jordan Berg Powers, chair of Voting Rights MA, which is opposing the ballot initiative, faced off in a debate about all-party primaries, which is shaping up to be perhaps the most controversial of the nine ballot questions that will appear before Massachusetts voters in November.
Year: 2026
Massachusetts public schools are entering an era of fewer children. The causes and consequences look different depending across the state.
Nolan’s comments that Healey will tone down her rhetoric after the election stand in stark contrast to Healey’s pitch to voters that Massachusetts will take on utility profits and go to bat for ratepayers.
Across the country, cities are abandoning their parking minimums and hoping to end up with fewer parking lots and walkable, transit-oriented neighborhoods. The local rules have been used to ensure new developments can accommodate residents with cars and do not overwhelm on-street public parking. But urbanists have argued that the requirements gobble up land that could be used for more housing and drive up construction costs.
Healey points focus at the president, Minogue tries to hammer cost of living in the gubernatorial debate
Planning for the next three-year cycle of the Massachusetts’s energy efficiency program is already well underway
The Berkshire Flyer service is part of the state’s “Compass Rail” vision for intercity passenger rail throughout Massachusetts
Massachusetts officials are anticipating another wave of health insurance coverage losses tied to federal eligibility changes