CommonWealth Magazine

7 min read 2021-06-14 03:35:24

What happened to Mikayla Miller?

THE DEATH IN April of 16-year-old Hopkinton resident Mikayla Miller has prompted an outpouring of sorrow and sympathy. It has also led to charges

3 min read 2021-06-12 05:24:12

STATE TRANSPORTATION officials looking for some extra space to put all of the roadways and train tracks associated with the Allston I-90 project at

5 min read 2021-06-11 22:06:55

LOU MURRAY, the chairman of the Ward 20 Republican Committee in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood, gets it at least partially right in an op-ed in

2 min read 2021-06-11 21:43:42

LOU MURRAY, the chairman of the Ward 20 Republican Committee in Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood, gets it at least partially right in an op-ed in

4 min read 2021-06-11 06:04:27

IT’S JUNE 2021 and, finally, most children have returned to full-time in-person school. Teachers are reconnecting with students whose experiences

3 min read 2021-06-11 02:35:39

WHILE THE PANDEMIC-related health emergency may be winding down, it will take time for society to return to a fully normal state. Lawmakers are now

5 min read 2021-06-10 20:56:15

WITH A NATIONAL debate underway over whether the federal government should guarantee free community college for all Americans, a new study of

5 min read 2021-06-10 20:56:15

WITH A NATIONAL debate underway over whether the federal government should guarantee free community college for all Americans, a new study of

6 min read 2021-06-10 19:03:41

As the House prepares to move forward with a major change to how redistricting is done, city and town officials are sounding the alarm that the

3 min read 2021-06-10 19:00:18

AS THE HOUSE prepares to move forward with a major change to how redistricting is done, city and town officials are sounding the alarm that the

4 min read 2021-06-10 04:08:01

WHEN HISTORIANS of the future write their accounts of the pandemic of 2020-21, they will say we knew something this bad was coming, still got caught

4 min read 2021-06-10 04:06:41

THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE on Wednesday passed a constitutional amendment raising taxes on income over $1 million, the final vote needed to put

7 min read 2021-06-09 21:45:36

THE COVER-UP is always worse than the crime. And so it is that Boston school officials find themselves dealing with the explosive fallout of a

4 min read 2021-06-09 21:35:58

THE COVER-UP is always worse than the crime. And so it is that Boston school officials find themselves dealing with the explosive fallout of a

3 min read 2021-06-09 06:04:33

THE FAIR SHARE AMENDMENT — which would assess an additional tax of four percentage points on annual taxable income above $1 million and invest the