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Advocates of legislation to ban early elementary school suspensions say even one instance of removing a young student from class is too much.

Withholding emergency shelter from homeless families because they’re not quite poor enough or virtuous enough or expert enough to qualify won’t cut it.

A state judge is poised to rule on the Healey administration’s effort to limit the number of homeless families allowed in the state’s emergency shelter program, which has been overwhelmed by a surge of migrants amid an escalating housing crisis.

A lot has changed in the past 40 years, but something that has stayed the same is the 5 cent bottle deposit. Advocates on Beacon Hill are looking to update the law, but it does have some push back.

Updating the Bottle Bill in Massachusetts is one of many steps we must take to move away from our throwaway, single-use culture.