It’s disappointing to hear our mayor, Jon Mitchell of New Bedford, criticize the proposed rent control ballot initiative for applying “not just to the red-hot Boston housing market, but everywhere ...

Instead of a flood control infrastructure, overgrown vegetation is seen in a riverbank during the Sandiganbayan Third Division’s ocular inspection at Barangay Bunsuran in Pandi, Bulacan on April 15, ...

In the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization’s board of directors. For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions ...

Rent control in Massachusetts could lead to big losses in city and town budgets, according to a new study released Thursday. The Greater Boston Real Estate Board and the Center for State Policy ...

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HOLYOKE — A statewide housing coalition and local tenant organizers clashed Wednesday over a proposed 2026 ballot initiative that would cap annual rent increases in Massachusetts, a clear division ...

Some tenant advocates are hoping lawmakers will take up a legislative compromise to enact a version of rent control while avoiding a bruising ballot fight One sweltering day last summer, more than 100 ...

The ballot questions include proposals on rent control, legal marijuana rollback and all state primaries. Ballot proposals needed to hit at least 74,574 certified signatures to advance to the next ...

Massachusetts voters are on track to decide a potentially record-setting number of ballot questions in 2026, and Gov. Maura Healey has already started to figure out how she’ll fill in the bubbles.