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WHEN SHE WALKS INTO the State House next week, Senate President Karen Spilka will be doing something no one has done – or been allowed to do – since the mid-1990s: leading the Massachusetts Senate into a ninth consecutive year.

Spilka was first

TOP SENATE DEMOCRATS are openly wary of the risks posed by artificial intelligence — but they’re not yet willing to block the facilities that power it from calling Massachusetts home.

Sen. Michael Moore, a Democrat representing areas in and around Worcester, filed an amendment that would impose a one-year moratorium on new data centers in the stat...

HOUSE SPEAKER RON MARIANO was having a bit of fun with the press corps Wednesday when he named “fortune-telling” as part of his own personal “fun agenda,” a phrase senators have been deploying to describe their host of policies aimed at energizing nightlife and socialization.

His other comments in the same scrum seemed to showcase his divination sk...

IF REPLACING single-family zoning with two-family zoning sounds like a major change for communities across Massachusetts, in this case one plus one could equal three.

A provision included in the state Senate’s sweeping economic development bill passed on Thursday would

THE ELECTION SEASON fight over legislative transparency could get a lot more cloudy before it gets any clearer.

Top Senate Democrats signaled Thursday they will seek a vote next week on legislation that would, like a bill passed last month in the House, subject both the governor’s office and the Legislature to some kind of public records framework,...