My experiences as an operator in both industries is that cannabis, despite being safer than alcohol, is already regulated much more strictly. 

“You have to try,” said Justice Dalila Wendlandt of the Suffolk judge’s refusal to submit a corrected writ to ICE. “I’m not just making that up. I think it’s the case law.”

Project Beacon would add about 300 million cubic feet of natural gas capacity per day—roughly enough to meet the winter needs of 840,000 homes, or more than half of Massachusetts residential gas accounts.

The Massachusetts Democratic Party and the Massachusetts Republican Party both oppose Question 3, which has drawn support from former Republican Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey and former MassGOP Chair Jennifer Nassour as well as Democrat Auditor Diana DiZoglio, former State Treasurer and MassDems Chair Steve Grossman and former US Rep. Joe Kennedy III, a Democrat.

Minogue, who spent 19 years as CEO of Abiomed, the Danvers-based heart pump company, joined hosts John McDonough of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Paul Hattis of the Lown Institute on this month's Health or Consequences podcast.

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Head Start works comprehensively. The harm of the proposed rule does not come from any one of the above changes alone, it comes from the compounding impact of removing services and protections for the most vulnerable children and families.

The nurses overwhelmingly authorized an indefinite strike last week, after their five-day work stoppage in July failed to break the contract negotiation stalemate.

Ending coverage does not merely stop progress. It reverses it—and costs may return as diabetes, CPAP equipment, additional medications, disability, and hospital care.

The governor and mayor, both Democrats and each the first woman elected to the chief executive positions in the state and city, are not known to have a close political connection.

As Healey hunts for ways to bring down soaring costs and campaigns for reelection in a race defined by the affordability crisis gripping the state, the governor sees an opportunity to appeal to the Trump administration to bring more gas into the state.

“It’s a very difficult sell to make to anybody that the Legislature and governor shouldn’t be subject to the public records law,” said Jonathan Cohn, policy director of Progressive Massachusetts. “Straightforward good government questions will always resonate with voters.”

The attorney general called for the Legislature to strengthen remedies for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and revealed that she is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.

Healey’s ability to evade the bulk of the blame with voters for high energy costs is notable as she seeks reelection this fall, given how energy issues have proven stubborn, dogging much of her first term.

For all of the sound and fury legislative leaders have raised, voter support for the audit law has not budged in two years.

Price controls do not eliminate costs. They change incentives, reducing the expected return from developing medicines.

Elizabeth Dionne appeared on GBH Radio on Tuesday and detailed how she sees the state Treasury addressing "affordability via local aid."

What gets tested gets taught. Media literacy isn't tested in Massachusetts, so it isn't taught.

A new MassINC Polling Group survey finds that Bay Staters are still concerned about Gov. Maura Healey’s response to affordability concerns, even as she appears poised to win reelection with relative ease.

The CommonWealth Beacon survey asked voters to name their top issues at the ballot box in their own words. When the polling group reviewed those answers, guns and marijuana were the only ballot questions people cited as reasons to get out and vote.

Fire Station 9, which covers a portion of the city's North End neighborhood, had been billed for closure this fall as part of a round of city layoffs and program cuts intended to resolve what Mayor Jon Mitchell has said is a $32 million budget deficit for the city.

In 2015, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston found that white households in Boston had a median wealth of $247,500, while Black households had a median wealth of close to $0. That was more than ten years ago. Now, the Boston Fed has released a new report examining the wealth gap across Massachusetts. Have things improved? What trends do we see in the new report? And how has the ongoing affordability crisis affected wealth disparities?

Rooftop solar should be compensated for the savings it provides the system — the avoided generation, the deferred upgrades, the peak demand it shaves — no more, and no less.

The state gas tax is the price we pay to ensure that we have safe and reliable ways to get where we need to go, with sufficient funding to build, operate, and maintain the essential transportation infrastructure we all depend upon.  

Shutdowns of complete sections of train lines have become the norm in recent years, as the MBTA officials looks to speed up repairs.