Fifth-three percent of Missouri voters signed off on a constitutional amendment legalizing recreational marijuana on Nov. 8, 2022 (Carol Yepes/Getty Images). Since recreational weed was legalized in 2022, it has…
Sex therapist and social worker Stefani Goerlich sits in her office in Detroit. Goerlich says her hard-won relationships with clients are upended when they move away from Michigan, because most…
Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley speaks during a press conference on reproductive rights for people with disabilities outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt/States…
(KUNM / Courtesy Candidates’ Campaigns) Two Democratic candidates are vying for the District 30 State Senate seat in western New Mexico. With no Republican candidate running that means whoever wins…
A solar and battery storage development operated by Entergy in Searcy, Arkansas. Solar power growth is expected to help some parts of the country meet electric demand this summer. (Robert…
Tammy Tesson Puhlmann, 63, who now lives in Villa Ridge, Missouri, shows photos of her son Drew as she sat in the Russell Senate Office Building on May 22, 2024.…
OVERVIEW This week on The Codcast, CommonWealth Beacon’s Bruce Mohl is joined by Gordon van Welie, president and CEO of ISO New England, to discuss the challenges of moving to…
South Coast Rail will begin running later this year. (Courtesy of CommonWealth Beacon) New Bedford is expected to join the list of MBTA communities later this year when South Coast…
The SS Nenana, with summer visitors, is seen in Fairbanks in 2008. The historic steamship is housed at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks. (Photo provided by National Park Service) In 1923,…
An infant in Fayetteville, Ga., receives one of several routine vaccinations typically required for children entering K-12 schools. On the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic and with growing skepticism around…