SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—Polls in the last week have shown the Massachusetts Senate race between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown to be extremely close, with Brown pulling slightly ahead in two polls released over the weekend.
A survey of the Bay State’s major newspaper endorsements also shows the candidates from the two dominant political parties in [...]

Authorities continue to overestimate the number of jobs “created or saved” by the stimulus package, according to an independent review conducted by the the Boston Globe.
While Massachusetts recipients of federal stimulus money collectively report 12,374 jobs saved or created, a Globe review shows that number is wildly exaggerated. Organizations that received stimulus money miscounted jobs, [...]