INTRO TEXT James Madden will be ousted from the state Board of Education in June, but it’s not because he asks too many questions. Madden’s term will end when he […]
Robert David Sullivan
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Toy towns
All Bay State cities and towns have children to educate, but the burden isn’t evenly distributed. The Kids Count Census, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, used US […]
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Gee monikers
Lots of people wish they could have filled out their own birth certificates, but no one is saddled with a name their parents picked in 1740. That burden falls upon […]
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Government reform in a time of crisis
INTRO TEXT Following the events of September 11, the need to reinvent government “is only more stark,” former Al Gore advisor Elaine Kamarck told the Commonwealth Forum October 18, in […]
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Keeping the customers ‘satisficed’
This year’s election campaign for mayor of Boston has hardly revved the city’s engines. But at least somebody is running against Tom Menino. Four years ago, Boston held a mayoral […]
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CPR for the GOP
Despite national ascendancy and a 10-year hold on the governor’s office, Massachusetts Republicans seem weaker than ever. We asked diagnosticians from both ends of the political spectrum how to revive […]
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Politics: A Trivial Pursuit
By early December, most of us had read quite enough about the greatest entertainers of the 20th century, not to mention the most amazing athletes and most appalling crimes. We’d […]