Right to shelter did not make headlines back in 1983 when Gov. Dukakis signed a $1.6M homeless bill. Here's what was debated.

Massachusetts lawmakers are poised to dive into a right to shelter law debate this year after Gov. Maura Healey recommended ...

Republican lawmakers this week called for stricter regulation of the shelter system. That came amid outcry over the recent ...

Bill Cotterell is a retired Capitol reporter for United Press International and the Tallahassee Democrat. He can be reached ...

Since the 2024 elections, party leaders at the state and national levels have been saying they learned hard lessons from the ...

In the world of politics, the peanut farmer from Georgia and the Greek kid from Massachusetts were an unlikely duo. But, as Michael Dukakis recalled decades later from the dining room in his Brookline ...

Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis remembered Carter as being “a pleasure to work with.” In an interview Sunday, Dukakis said the Southern Democrat from Georgia was “just the most ...

Military service has not done much if anything for Democrats—Clinton won the nomination against two primary opponents, Bob ...

In the wake of the death at age 101 of former Massachusetts attorney general and lieutenant governor Francis X. Bellotti (above) last month, Judy Meredith, a longtime presence on Beacon Hill as a ...

On today's episode of Good Word with Goodwill, Vincent Goodwill is joined by The Ringer's Howard Beck as they do a deep on ...