Since he got his bachelor’s degree in May, Kirk Devezin II has worked a little more than six months. He has freelanced. He has never made more than the $10.36 an hour he earned as a barista at Starbucks while he was a student at Eastern Connecticut State University.

The Patrick administration has asked the commission that oversees public employee retirement benefits to look at possible abuse of the pension system by longtime Boston firefighters who tried to calculate all their years on the force into their pensions, including times when they were not working.

On March 8, President Obama paid a visit to TechBoston Academy in Dorchester, Mass.–a technology-driven, 6th-12th grade pilot school within the Boston Public School System (BPS)–to promote the importance of education in today’s society and to highlight TechBoston as a model school for student success.

A commission charged with finding ways of creating new jobs was warned the state’s job creation will continue to lag unless Massachusetts improves the quality of its public schools and lowers the cost of housing.

It’s hard to see that you are in the middle of a revolution while it’s happening.

Massachusetts home sales went into a deep freeze last month with the worst numbers in more than 20 years, according to data released yesterday.

Borrowing by U.S. consumers has been falling since the middle of the recession – in the aggregate, anyway. Beneath the surface, people at the high end of the income scale have been paying down their loans, but the little guy is not making any progress, and in fact is facing higher credit card balances. But […]

The folks who run Facebook are laughing all the way to the bank. They’re making money hand over fist, and all they have to do is sit back and watch as the people who comprise their product volunteer tons of incredibly personal information. Then they sell access to that information to any advertiser or other […]

The man who nearly assassinated President Ronald Reagan in 1981 may be freed after nearly 30 years in a hospital.

Should the government give your tax dollars to radio stations for programs that entertain, inform and, critics say, promote an elitist political agenda?

The death of Jamie Hood’s brother to a police bullet in 2001 and Mr. Hood’s dramatic surrender Friday in Athens, Ga., after a four-hour hostage standoff offers a provocative — and personal — timeline of rising tensions between police and street criminals in the last decade, leading to more bloodshed on the beat even as […]

The city of Boston has designated the Christian Science Center plaza a historic landmark, giving it special protections from future development, including changes to its most famous feature – a 686-foot-long reflecting pool.