Does self-funding give candidates a leg up in the competition, or risk alienating supporters and potential constituents? The post Massachusetts GOP gubernatorial candidates are bankrolling their own campaigns.

A proposal to convert Massachusetts’s state primary elections to “all-party primaries” is inching closer to appearing on the November ballot.

Several proposed ballot questions are of interest to Cape Codders, including housing initiatives and a conservation fund that would protect water.

If the Legislature chooses not to pass a proposed law by May 5, organizers can collect additional signatures to place the question on the ballot in November.

Massachusetts election officials have scheduled a hearing to investigate a complaint challenging the signature gathering process for a proposed ballot initiative to roll back the state’s marijuana law.