Victory was declared by Lydia Edwards in the one-person race for a state Senate seat representing parts of Cambridge, Boston, East Boston and Winthrop and Revere.

Only investment in new affordable housing, particularly social housing, can provide a long-term solution to our housing crisis, but a bill enabling municipalities to consider rent control and rent stabilization could provide short- and medium-term solutions. There’s a hearing on it Tuesday.

After years of effort, a campaign finance reform order has passed the City Council. The latest version of the law had been in the works for 14 months, and city councillor Dennis Carlone noted he’d been part of two earlier attempts that he said “died by pieces” since he joined the council in 2013.

A special primary election for a state Senate seat Tuesday ended in win for Boston city councilor Lydia Edwards to represent parts of Cambridge, Boston, East Boston and Winthrop as well as Revere.

Struggling families face an extreme benefit “cliff”: Federal waivers enabling schools to serve meals to all students dissolve at the end of the 2021-2022 school year.

This election matters. The people of this district deserve a state senator who is experienced, will do the work and has the record of getting things done.

I am running for state Senate because I want to help ensure that the district that has given so much to me and my family can continue to do so for generations of families to come.

East Cambridge will stay a single district in the state House of Representatives, avoiding the split expected in a redistricting map proposed last week, state Rep. Mike Connolly said.

Massachusetts legislators are making decisions about how to use American Rescue Plan Act money. We call on them to invest ARPA funds in critical agricultural infrastructure and hope you will too.

A sweeping, statewide change in political mapping could remove state Rep. Jay Livingstone entirely from Cambridge politics, giving him an all-Boston district while carving up the Cambridge part of his current 8th Suffolk District among state Rep. Mike Connolly and two newcomers.