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2 months ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Cecilia Mazanec |Ryan Huddle |Ally Rzesa
“My love for you is like a Dunkin’ iced coffee in the winter. It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone but us.”We’re celebrating this holiday of the heart with notes to a love we share: that of Boston. We designed a handful of Boston-themed Valentine’s Day cards, stacking them with those of years past.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Katie Johnston |Scooty Nickerson |Ryan Huddle
Massachusetts appears to be inching toward approving Question 3, giving Uber and Lyft drivers the right to organize a union. With 88 percent of precincts reporting as of Wednesday morning, 54.1 percent of voters were in favor. The companies consider the drivers to be independent contractors, a classification of workers not typically allowed to unionize under federal law, and the ballot initiative, if approved, would create a new framework for drivers to do so under state law.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Stella Tannenbaum |Ryan Huddle |Scooty Nickerson
The ballot measure would have permitted those 21 and older to use and share certain amounts of five psychedelic substances that come from plants or “magic” mushrooms: psilocybin, psilocin, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), mescaline, and ibogaine. Growing the substances at home would have been allowed in a 12-by-12-foot space restricted from those under 21. Sale of the substances will remain illegal. Voting results varied widely among Massachusetts’ 351 cities and towns.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Mandy McLaren |Ryan Huddle
Massachusetts voters on Tuesday chose to end the use of MCAS scores as a high school graduation requirement, voting about 59 percent in favor of ballot Question 2, according to incomplete AP results. The change goes into immediate effect for the class of 2025. The MCAS graduation requirement has been a provision of the state’s landmark 1993 education law that made earning a diploma contingent on students passing MCAS exams in English, math, and science.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Amanda Kaufman |Ryan Huddle
In the waning days of a tumultuous presidential campaign, polls in the handful of states that will likely decide whether former president Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris win the presidential election show a neck-and-neck race. In seven states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — the candidates are separated by no more than two percentage points, according to the most recent polls from The New York Times and FiveThirtyEight.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Christina Prignano |Ryan Huddle
Massachusetts public health officials regularly publish data estimating the EEE risk level for Massachusetts cities and towns. The map below will be updated as the state releases new data. A Flourish mapAccording to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, risk levels mean the following:Remote: EEE is not usually found in your area. Low: EEE may occur in your area. Moderate: EEE occurred in your area within the last year AND/OR there is EEE in mosquitos in your area now.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Hayley Kaufman |Ryan Huddle
The Sumner Tunnel is shut down for repairs through Aug. 5, an aterial blockage in the heart of Boston sure to raise the blood pressure of commuters far beyond city limits. The good news is, the nearly 90-year-old Sumner will only be closed for a month this summer. (Last year, you’ll recall, repairs kept it shuttered for two.) But the abbreviated schedule will be of little comfort to agitated drivers seeking passage to Downtown Boston from Logan Airport, East Boston, and many other points north.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Ryan Huddle
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Christina Prignano |Ryan Huddle
If you felt the 4.8-magnitude earthquake that struck New Jersey on Friday morning, you weren’t alone. Data from the US Geological Survey can give us an idea of how far the tremors traveled. The agency, which tracks earthquakes around the globe, allows anyone with an Internet connection to submit a report if they feel an earthquake. The reports are collected and distributed in the form of a map.
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Feb 9, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Amanda Kaufman |Ryan Huddle
A special counsel report released Wednesday that found President Biden willfully retained classified information when he was a private citizen but shouldn’t face criminal charges contained scathing characterizations of Biden’s memory and mental acuity, at one point referring to him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” The report claims that Biden could not remember when he served as vice president or when his son Beau died and at points describes his memory as “fuzzy” and...
