INTRO TEXT “Asset inequality” is a major reason why African-Americans continue to lag behind white Americans in terms of homeownership and education, agreed several speakers at the latest CommonWealth forum, […]
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The Boston iMetroi is a tabloid on the fast track
Joe Pesaturo gets paid to know what’s going on at the MBTA. So you’d better believe that when Pesaturo, the transit authority’s chief spokesman, is waiting for his trolley, he’s […]
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Commonwealth Forum figures the odds on slot machines and stock markets
INTRO TEXT The Bay State’s current fiscal crisis has, not surprisingly, revived discussions on increasing revenue by expanding legalized gambling here. At the Commonwealth Forum “Taking a Gamble: Risk, Reward, […]
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iCommonWealthi Forum capitalizes on nonprofits
INTRO TEXT Nonprofit organizations and the government agencies and funders that finance them need to think more creatively in the face of lean budgets and a sagging economy. That was […]
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Commonwealth Forum panelists give Romney a taste of the future
INTRO TEXT “We do want Mitt Romney to succeed. If he succeeds, we succeed,” said House Speaker Thomas Finneran at the first of two Commonwealth Forums entitled “No Ordinary Time: […]
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State of the marital union
INTRO TEXT “Politics and marriage don’t really mix,” said Boston College political science professor Alan Wolfe at the June 18 Commonwealth Forum on “The State of the Union: Understanding Marriage […]
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The New Economys dubious dividend
As we find ourselves heading into a particularly brutal state budget-debate season, the focus, naturally enough, is on the fiscal realities ahead and how to come to terms with them. […]
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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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Michael Dukakis and Jerome Grossman MD discuss competition regulation and relationship in health care
It has been said that if the health care system in this state, and in this country, is in crisis, it has been in crisis for 25 years. And during […]
