Politics

The bill would ban hand-held cell phone use while driving.

When they begin treating the rest of the Commonwealth's citizens as equal partners, then perhaps I'll listen to their calls for new taxes.

A new poll suggests that Massachusetts voters are eager to raise taxes to pay for transportation projects.

Deval Patrick is just another face in a race that few really care about.

You get one shot to make an impression. They blew it.

The hearings to impeach President Trump are a flogging of Joe Biden. I can’t believe the House Democrats aren’t smart enough to see what they're doing to Biden.

The Mass House voted to ban the sale of flavored vaping and tobacco products – including mint and menthol cigarettes – and to impose an excise tax on e-cigs.

You learn a lot about people by the company they keep.

Ross Grace, Jr. ran for the New Bedford School Committee and he almost won. In fact, he did win numerous precincts against a field of qualified incumbents.

Massachusetts is one of only eight states without a statute criminalizing coercion of suicide, a gap lawmakers hope to close in the wake of high-profile cases.