4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (28+ words) A new kind of social distancing The Boston Globe A new kind of social distancing Patrick Chappatte is an editorial cartoonist. You can follow him on Twitter @PatChappatte....

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (540+ words) Sometimes, little changes can add up to a big impact. The state budget Governor Maura Healey signed in July includes several technical permitting changes. Among them: It will now be easier for people to build on lots that don’t meet…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (233+ words) The rental market is brutal — discrimination renders it impossible The Boston Globe The rental market is brutal — discrimination renders it impossible Re “On housing travails, a first-person object lesson: A journalist who covers the industry finds it as difficult as advertised…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (727+ words) A massive data center could be headed to the town of Bow, according to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission filings and a social media post from New Hampshire’s consumer advocate. The public filings describe an agreement for a preliminary, exploratory study…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (937+ words) John Della Volpe is the director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics and the author of “Fight: How Gen Z Is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America.” As a pollster focused on young people,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (180+ words) My children are long grown, but I clearly remember the bittersweet moment as each left for college, particularly the last, when I so yearned for that presence in the next bedroom. So many moments of each of their childhoods are…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (923+ words) The film “Single White Female” scared generations of prospective roommates from putting a want ad in the paper. But desperate for a Sept. 1 lease, Gen Z is feeling safe on their parents’ social network — Facebook. Their answer to finding real…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (29+ words) The Boston Globe The new nanny state Christopher Weyant is a cartoonist and illustrator. Follow him at @ChristophWeyant. You can see his work at christopherweyant.com...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (760+ words) An outsider’s observations of Boston ring true for some readers The Boston Globe An outsider’s observations of Boston ring true for some readers Loved Chris Vognar’s “An Outsider’s View of Boston (After 30 Years in Texas)” (July 12). I grew up in…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (973+ words) For months, voting rights groups who’ve long pressed to make voting easier in Massachusetts stayed notably quiet after Secretary of State William F. Galvin pressed forward with a ballot question that would allow voters to register on Election Day. They…...