CommonWealth Beacon

ON SEPTEMBER 16, 2025, when the Right to Read Act was being debated at the State House, I testified before the Joint Education Committee in support of this crucial legislation. This was nerve-racking, but I had to do it because I strongly believe that all students should get appropriate reading instruction. It felt good to see legislators listen to me, a tea...

CRANES WERE SWINGING over White Stadium about a mile away from where Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on Thursday celebrated the court ruling clearing the way for the major construction project to continue.

The press conference unfolded on the patio behind the William J. Devine Golf Course clubhouse in Franklin Park, where Wu joined Boston Public Schools ...

MASSACHUSETTS POLITICIANS LOVE talking about democracy. They love reminding voters how sacred the process is, how important participation is, and how deeply they value every voice.

Then a reform comes along that might give voters more competition and more meaningful choices, and suddenly everyone in the political class starts clutching their pearl...

WHEN VOTERS BEGIN casting their ballots at the polls this weekend ahead of the September 1 primary, they’ll be partaking in an early voting method that hit the Bay State a decade ago — the relevance of which some locals clerks now question.

Early in-person voting became an option for voters in 2016, after Gov. Deval Patrick signed a law in May of 2...

IN THE END, there was no divine intervention for the City of Quincy.

After a lower court judge temporarily blocked the city from installing 10-foot-tall bronze statues of Catholic patron saints on the facade of its new public safety building, siding with the residents who sued to stop it as impermissible government support for religion, the city a...