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Local attorneys await verdict on Question 2, to allow collective bargaining for CPCS employees

Massachusetts voters will decide on Nov. 3 whether Ballot Question 2 should permit employees of the Committee for Public Counsel Services to engage in collective bargaining.

Greenfield Community College lauded for clean energy workforce development

Greenfield Community College received the 2026 Clean Energy Workforce Development Champion Award from the Alliance for Climate Transition for its initiatives in preparing students for careers in the clean energy sector.

Communities that Care unveils 2026 student survey

The Communities That Care Coalition of Franklin County and North Quabbin released its 2026 Student Health Survey data, highlighting improvements in youth mental health, lower substance use numbers and the need for less screen time. This year’s survey was the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The surveys are run in three-year cycles to identify topics to […]

Ralliers demand frontier AI freeze at Beacon Hill rally

BOSTON — Alongside dozens of people calling on government to “freeze” frontier AI, the president of the state’s largest teachers union told a crowd Tuesday that “our schools are not feeding troughs for AI investors.” Massachusetts Teachers Association President Matt Bach spoke about AI in education while flanked by students on the steps of the State […]

A discovery two centuries in the making: Smith College lab finds tiny organism living inside amoeba shells, a scientific first

NORTHAMPTON — A Smith College lab has discovered a microscopic protist species living inside the shells of amoebas, a phenomenon researchers say has never been recorded in 200 years of study. Arcellinida, or shelled amoebas, live in freshwater and wetlands across the globe. These predator organisms were first discovered in the 1880s, but their fossils […]