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As the founder and director of the Rep. Edith Nourse Rogers National Commission on Women Veterans & The U.S. International Institute on Veteranthropology & Women Veterans Studies, a national civic public service intelligence research, analysis and veterans studies initiative, I would like to encourage all American veterans-scholars, especially those who are women veterans and/or any veterans who have used the G.I. Bill; or are currently using any variation of the G.I. Bill, to pause and ...

Voters heading to the polls Tuesday will be asked to narrow down four Boston City Council races to two candidates for the November election.

They fight against charter schools, MCAS testing, and state oversight. Meanwhile, students’ reading and math scores are worse.

We'll help parse what's mythical and what's real around the state's progressive reputation, explain why some mayors wield big power while others don't, and even let you in on how New England town meetings are both democracy at its simplest and protocol at its most opaque.

Her advocacy in New York and Massachusetts won protections for free speech, gender equality and access to birth control. And she was a voice on marital rape.

In recent years, Massachusetts has had one of the lowest clemency rates in the country. Gov. Maura Healey is changing that.

BOSTON — Just three months after she finished building out her cabinet, Gov. Maura Healey suddenly has an impending vacancy to fill.

In the coming weeks, voters will get a chance to make their choices in the first round of balloting for the open seat for the City Council’s District 3 as seven candidates vie to replace Frank Baker. The longtime councillor, first elected in 2011, isn’t running for another two-year term on the 13-member body. Open seats don’t come along often: Before Baker, Maureen Feeney

District 3 City Council candidate Ann M. Walsh often mixes up her campaign clipboard with her coach’s whistle in her daily, full-on dive into a campaign marked by a heavy dose of door-knocking, a busy schedule of lawn parties, and the shoe-horning of softball duties in between. The longtime activist, former City Council staffer with John Connolly, and neighborhood softball

Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll told reporters Tuesday that Gina Fiandaca is “ready for her next challenge,” and praised her short time in the administration.