Adam Reilly

When Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt addressed the advocacy group Walk Massachusetts earlier this month, she spoke candidly about both how she approaches her job and the steps she'd like to see the state take to raise money for transportation-related costs. In retrospect though, Tibbits-Nutt may have been too unguarded. Her comments — including a suggestion that the state

For more than 70 years, White Stadium in Franklin Park has been an athletics destination for the Boston Public Schools. But it's slowly deteriorated, and is now in desperate need of repair. That state of affairs prompted the city to team up with the group behind the Boston Unity, a new professional women's soccer team, to share and completely renovate the stadium.

Residents of Concord who want to see the new middle school named in honor of a Black civil rights heroine bring their case to a community-wide vote.

FILE - People relax on the Boston Common as the sun shines on the golden State House dome behind. Jenifer McKim GBH News

A city ordinance banning encampments can't be selectively applied, the mayor said.

A procedural rule led to one being withdrawn.

Since pro-Palestinian encampments started springing up on college campuses across the country, many student protesters have been wary of the media — and not without reason. Historically, news coverage of protests has tended to be more sensational and simplified than comprehensive and nuanced.

Think tanks have always played a big role in Massachusetts politics. Think of the Mass. Budget and Policy Center, which pushes for fiscal progressivism, or the Pioneer Institute, which acts as a more conservative watchdog.

The work stoppage began in March and could stretch into the next academic year.

Concord Town Meeting members earlier this month overwhelmingly voted in favor of renaming the middle school after local educator and Civil War era abolitionist Ellen Garrison, a Black woman.