The complexity of our few bills tells us very little, if anything, however, about the quality of the bills or of the process that produced them. In fact, the complexity of bills covering multiple ...

Democracy depends on being able to give positive and negative reinforcement to elected officials. Constituents should be able to praise legislators for what they do right and criticize them for what ...

The modern trend of relying on omnibus bills for routine legislative work is not a neutral choice. It turns a simple democratic process into a labyrinthine ordeal.

MASSACHUSETTS HAS DONE this before. It’s time to do it again. In 1993, when the Commonwealth confronted an economy reshaped by globalization and information technology, it did something remarkably ...

Voters in the deep-blue state are sometimes open to a gesture toward bipartisanship through a Republican governor that could, at least in theory, square off against a Democratic supermajority in the ...

AS GOV. MAURA HEALEY has sought to tackle soaring energy costs in an election year defined by cost-of-living issues — and increasingly attacked the utility companies for “greed” and corporate profits ...

It’s a very difficult sell to make to anybody that the Legislature and governor shouldn’t be subject to the public records ...

IMAGINE THAT YOU’RE part of a team charged with crafting the next iteration of one of the largest energy efficiency programs in the country, the budget of which exceeds that of the University of ...

HERE’S SOMETHING you probably didn’t have on your bingo card: The Democratic governor of Massachusetts asking President Trump ...

Across the country, cities are abandoning their parking minimums and hoping to end up with fewer parking lots and walkable, ...