The growth of Massachusetts’s solar industry today was a result of the Patrick-Murray administration’s portfolio of forward thinking clean energy policies and programs, enacted by the administration and the Massachusetts Legislature.

Though the May Department of Labor jobs report showed an anemic 54,000 new jobs and an unemployment rate now 9.1 percent, the prospect for new college graduates about to enter the work force may be better than it was over the last few years.

Boston was the nation’s first large-scale terrorist/disaster drill, according to the mayor’s office.

Mitt Romney defended his signature universal health care legislation enacted five years ago in Massachusetts but rejected President Obama’s health care reform.

Although movie cameras are not allowed inside North Korea to record scenes of starvation and mass suffering at the hands of the North Korean regime, South Korean movie director, Kim Tae-gyoon, has managed to take audiences directly into North Korea—through his landmark film, ‘Crossing.’

The Harvard University Human Rights Journal’s 10th annual symposium dedicated this year’s meeting to human rights lawyers and activists who have been arrested or ill treated by Chinese authorities.

The Harvard University Human Rights Journal’s 10th annual symposium dedicated this year’s meeting to the courageous human rights lawyers and activists in China.

BOSTON—Massachusetts became the first state to implement universal health coverage five years ago. Its plan, developed under then-Gov. Mitt Romney, paved the way for the 2010 federal health care overhaul. Gov. Deval Patrick announced that now more than 98 percent of residents are covered, and that the plan reduced state costs.

It began as a fight against obesity among children and youth, with a 2004 ban on junk food and soda in vending machines in Boston public schools.

The complex is a collective of buildings and landscapes constructed individually from the late 19th century to the late 20th century.