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City Reports Show Downtown Housing Is Booming, While Outer Neighborhoods See Gradual Growth

City Reports Show Downtown Housing Is Booming, While Outer Neighborhoods See Gradual Growth

Boston is exceeding its housing goals, bolstered by new concentrations of affordable middle-income stock in s…

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Mapping Boston’s Soundscape

Mapping Boston’s Soundscape

It’s all in a day’s research for Walker, a former artist who was compelled to undertake the study after suffe…

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UMass-Kraft stadium plan officially 'dead'

UMass-Kraft stadium plan officially 'dead'

UMass says stadium "does not appear feasible." Updated April 28, 3:31 p.m. -- Discussions between UMass Bosto…

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Tracking the Lottery's payouts: Players in Dot, Mattapan won $93.7m in '16

Tracking the Lottery's payouts: Players in Dot, Mattapan won $93.7m in '16

An analysis of lottery payouts in Mattapan and Dorchester in 2016 found relatively few big-ticket winners, al…

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Boston's history of slavery remembered - The Boston Globe

Boston's history of slavery remembered - The Boston Globe

While Boston prominently advertises its revolutionary and abolitionist history, the city's role as a slave po…

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Tsarnaev's conviction opens death penalty debate

Tsarnaev's conviction opens death penalty debate

A courtroom sketch shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, left, and his defence team as the…

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Bad incentives and industry headwinds vex Point32Health CEO

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By Jennifer Smith Verified
| CommonWealth Beacon Verified
PATRICK GILLIGAN HAS spent a year trying to fix Point32Health’s finances. But after “serious financial challenges” and hundreds of layoffs, he’s not sure that’s enough. The president and CEO of the parent company of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Tufts Health Plan argues that the Massachusetts health care system is built around the wrong incentives, and that no single insurer can fix that on its own.
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US Supreme Court paves way for rollback of TPS protections for Haitians, Syrians

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By Jennifer Smith Verified, Ariana Figueroa Verified
| News from the States
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION now has a path to end protections for thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants living in Massachusetts, after the US Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling that state officials warned would rip at the state’s health care workforce and separate families who have spent years building lives in the Commonwealth.
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How did some of Massachusetts’s buzziest ballot campaigns get tripped up in court?

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By Jennifer Smith Verified
| News from the States
LAST DECEMBER, Secretary of State Bill Galvin said his office had never seen so many ballot questions submitted at once. A total of 11 initiative petitions ultimately cleared the signature-gathering threshold, joining a gun law referendum already on track for the 2026 contest. Groups that had spent years frustrated by Beacon Hill ignoring calls to pass legislation opted to take their case directly to voters. Six of them landed before the Supreme Judicial Court. Three of them hit the wall.
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