BALLOT QUESTIONS ARE blunt instruments. The ballot question on charter school expansion is no exception. It has a very narrow focus, targeted only at increasing the number of students in […]
Dan Wolf
Posted inEconomy, Opinion
Applying Piketty
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century must be taken as a profound challenge. Piketty’s big thesis is that wealth and capital must accumulate and concentrate—it’s the inherent nature of […]
Posted inPolitics
Dan Wolf to resign
BOSTON – August 22, 2013 – In early August, the Massachusetts Ethics Commission ruled that I am in violation of state ethics laws because the company I founded 25 years […]
Posted inPolitics
Wolf: Ethics ruling bars run for governor
Sen. Dan Wolf, who represents the Cape and islands, issued the following statement on Wednesday indicating he plans to continue pursuing a gubernatorial candidacy despite an Ethics Commission ruling suggesting […]
Posted inEconomy, Opinion
Reform zoning now
Massachusetts has always been a source of innovative ideas that change the world, from the revolutionary principles that gave birth to democracy to the technological concepts that founded Facebook. But […]
Posted inEconomy, Health Care, Opinion
Mass. health care law hasn’t stunted growth
The following is a slightly edited transcript of Sen. Dan Wolf’s testimony in Washington on Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform regarding the job and economic costs […]