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Governor Maura Healey, left, applauds as Terrance Williams, center, faces reporters during a news conference in June. Healey recommended pardons for seven individuals, including Williams, who was found delinquent of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in 1984 at age 15 when he got into an altercation with a friend.

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Governor Healey adds equity, fairness to her clemency priorities

Historic new rules provide renewed hope for second chances in a long-stagnant system.

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In defense of Halloween

Could the censorious scolds and overprotective parents just give it a rest for this one day?

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Transfer tax would give communities one more weapon in the housing battle

Healey’s proposal would end a decade-long fight to tap high-end real estate sales for the greater good.

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The big question looming over Dana-Farber shift: What’s the best way to treat cancer?

The cancer center’s move from Brigham and Women’s Hospital envisions a new model of care.

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After Maine shootings, our grim ritual returns: burying the dead, pleading for better gun laws
With some of the region’s most permissive firearm laws, Maine has been a poster child for the nation’s political paralysis on gun safety.

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Help people with disabilities live in the community
Unnecessary segregation in nursing homes “has been linked to accelerated mental, emotional, and physical decline” when residents have little autonomy and little ability to engage in outside activities, a lawsuit says.

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A battle for affordable housing in Massachusetts

The Globe editorial board's 2020 series on the need for inclusive housing reform in Newton and across the Commonwealth.

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State, Boston police caught using high-tech surveillance gadgetry without a warrant

The days of old style “bugs” and body wires may be gone, but a civil liberties nightmare lives on.

Passionate debate over the Israel-Hamas war is fine. Violence is not.

Dehumanizing rhetoric is making both Jews and Muslims fearful. Elected officials and civic leaders could do more to counter the vitriol.

Boston City Council: Globe endorses Louijeune, Mejia, Murphy, and Santana for at-large seats

Three incumbents, and one newcomer, should help steer the City Council away from its dysfunction of the last two years.

Putting the T on the straight and (not too) narrow

For more than a year, the agency knew tracks on the new Green Line extension were too close together. Now GM Phillip Eng needs to make sure the line is safe — while ending the culture that made it seem OK to hide the track problems from the public.