OPINION: Making FAFSA completion a graduation requirement in Massachusetts isn’t about mandating college. It’s about removing barriers and expanding opportunities.

ICYMI: How Boston – of all places – offers lessons for the NFL on hiring diversity #OPINION

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ICYMI: Rent control opponents sue to keep measure off the ballot buff.ly/eeqsZJn

On this week's Codcast: Regulating insurance as health care costs surge Listen now.

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ICYMI: Holyoke’s unsheltered homeless count hits new record as threats to federal aid loom

OPINION: Boston has learned, slowly and imperfectly, that inclusion doesn’t happen at the finish line. It comes from institutions and leaders who invest in pipelines and relationships long before that point.

ICYMI: Gov. Healey’s budget plan is spending Massachusetts into a corner #OPINION

ICYMI: Report: Health insurers denied one in five claims in 2024

BALLOT QUESTIONS: Rent control opponents sue to keep measure off the ballot

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NEW: Rent control opponents sue to keep measure off the ballot commonwealthbeacon.org/ballot-quest...

ICYMI: From T support to school aid, surtax emerges as crutch for state budgeting

ICYMI: As Super Bowl betting surges, Kayshon Boutte’s story highlights a growing risk for young people #OPINION

ICYMI: Galvin to seek record ninth term as state secretary

GATEWAY CITIES: Holyoke’s unsheltered homeless count hits new record as threats to federal aid loom

OPINION: Tax revenues are slowing, costs are rising, and the Healey administration continues to grow state government as if the bill will never come due.

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ICYMI: Despite improvement, Mass. unemployment system remains one of the worst in the country by some measures

HEALTH: Report: Health insurers denied one in five claims in 2024

ICYMI: Providers seek $115 million to care for homeless adults

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ICYMI: Transparency in procurement can help close the racial wealth gap #OPINION

EDUCATION: From T support to school aid, surtax emerges as crutch for state budgeting

OPINION: With the Patriots heading back to the Super Bowl this Sunday after an improbable turnaround following two straight losing seasons, excitement across New England is reaching fever pitch. But the […]

ICYMI: Was a vote to seize Northeastern land for conservation in ‘bad faith?’

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GOVERNMENT: Galvin to seek record ninth term as state secretary

NEW: Galvin to seek record ninth term as state secretary commonwealthbeacon.org/shns/galvin-...

ICYMI: Canceling citizenship ceremonies at Faneuil Hall was an affront to its history #OPINION

STATE GOVERNMENT: Despite improvement, Mass. unemployment system remains one of the worst in the country by some measures

GOVERNMENT: Providers seek $115 million to care for homeless adults

NEW: Despite improvement, Mass. unemployment system remains one of the worst in the country by some measures

OPINION: Procurement transparency may sound technical. In reality, it goes to the heart of how wealth is built—or excluded—in the Commonwealth.

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COURTS: Was a vote to seize Northeastern land for conservation in ‘bad faith?’

OPINION: This wasn’t just a canceled ceremony; it was the quiet erasure of a tradition that once made American citizenship visible, contested, and public.

NEW: Was a vote to seize Northeastern land for conservation in ‘bad faith?’ commonwealthbeacon.org/courts/was-a...

On this week's Codcast: Unpacking the governor’s state budget proposal Listen now.

ICYMI: ‘The brave people of the Twin Cities made a call’

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ICYMI: The MBTA Communities law was a good start. But it won’t deliver transit-oriented development – or solve our housing shortage. #OPINION

OPINION: Proposals to remove dams unleash debate over which history to honor buff.ly/K1ydTBD

"The unbuilding of a legacy dam acknowledges that rivers have a deeper preindustrial history as living infrastructure... By choosing to let the river run free, we recover an abundance too easily ignored." #opinion buff.ly/z5IRghi

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