The state passed a $50.8 billion budget on Sunday night without making crucial decisions on transit funding, housing ...

States are preparing for a future with slower revenue growth and rising demand for health, transportation and other public ...

Perhaps nowhere in Massachusetts are the tensions associated with moving away from natural gas for heating our homes and buildings more pronounced than in the state’s 10 communities that have pledged ...

English proficiency isn’t a given in American cities. New York has created an interactive tool to pinpoint language access ...

A new report shows housing costs increasingly out of reach for Houstonians. Black homeownership shrank by the biggest margin ...

Until 2023, courts were following an outdated standard that seriously overestimated how many cases a public defender could handle in a year. Since new recommendations published two years ago, many ...

A dramatic turning point for states and localities, it altered the way they are run, from improving regional cooperation to ...

Legislators in at least half a dozen states have filed bills this year aimed at limiting the number of single-family homes that investors can buy. Studies suggest large companies own about 575,000 ...

A Massachusetts district is experimenting with universal eighth-grade algebra, raising fresh questions about access, ...

Fewer births mean fewer students. Now is the time for policymakers to take steps to mitigate the impact and better support ...

A new stream of leftist candidates for local office is vowing to lower the cost of living for everyone. How much runway will ...

Artificial intelligence is reshaping campaigns at every level of government while emerging as a defining issue for candidates ...