despite the economic woes in the country, investment in research and development continues to expand in all public, private, and nonprofit sectors, according to federal statistics. Nowhere is that impact […]
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MassINC Research Director on Chronicle
Friday, April 8, 2011 MassINC Research Director Ben Forman appeared on WCVB’s Chronicle last night to discuss the rise in immigration in Massachusetts, and the dramatic demographic shifts that have […]
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Attorney suspended for term paper offer
The state’s Board of Bar Overseers issued a six-month license suspension to a former attorney for the Massachusetts Appeals Court who offered to write a law school term paper as […]
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Money machine keeps humming
A controversial real estate transfer fee collected by the Boston Redevelopment Authority has won a reprieve from the federal government. The Federal Housing Finance Agency issued a proposed rule this […]
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Winter 2011 Correspondence
Women outpace men in academicsJack Sullivan’s “False Start” (Fall ’10) stated that “women athletes at state schools….still run far behind men in nearly every measure of equal treatment.” Focused as […]
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Feds float Turner perjury charge
Federal prosecutors have stepped up their pressure on former Boston city councilor Chuck Turner, alleging Turner committed perjury while testifying at his corruption trial this past fall. In court documents filed […]
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Sifting through records appeals
First in a series of occasional articles on rulings issued by the Secretary of State’s office concerning appeals of public records requests filed with public agencies. Last March, Boston Globe […]
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Patrick gets quacking
Click here for more Back Stories. Don’t get Back Story? Sign up here. If it looks like a lame duck, walks like a lame duck and quacks like a lame […]
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O’Brien files for state pension
Embattled former Probation Commissioner John J. O’Brien filed for his state pension on New Year’s Eve, the same day he abruptly resigned his $130,000 post rather than face a disciplinary […]
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Life science firms get $24m in tax credits
[CORRECTION: A correction had been added to this story] The state awarded nearly $24 million in tax credits today to 30 life sciences companies that promised to create 1,000 jobs […]
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The BPL’s dirty laundry
The Boston Public Library has quietly settled litigation with a lawyer-lobbyist who the library alleged was secretly paid by its former president for doing no work. The settlement offers few […]
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Should we subsidize Canadian hydro?
Republican Charlie Baker may not have won the race for governor, but his idea to import more hydroelectric power from Canada isn’t going away. Canadian provinces are eager to do […]
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Welfare, booze, and slots
On Nov. 7 the Globe ran a story describing Gov. Deval Patrick as angry that during the campaign Republicans had tried to blame him for a long-established system that provides […]
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The Download: Murphy’s moment
It took eight years of effort, but Steve Murphy is close to getting that thing he has chased for so long. After an unsuccessful run for Suffolk County sheriff bracketed […]
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Idealism put to the test
I’m not going to lie: When I went to see “Waiting for Superman” with my education major friend recently, my eyes filled up. Davis Guggenheim’s latest movie chronicles the struggle […]
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The Download: Reality deficit
The message behind the bipartisan deficit-reduction panel’s recent report was, “See, fiscal discipline isn’t all that tough!” But the back-and-forth that followed the report’s release last week has seriously called […]
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The Download: Time to regionalize
In Massachusetts, 911 calls are handled by 262 different facilities, or one for every 24,000 residents. Maryland, a state comparable to Massachusetts in population and land size, uses just 24 […]
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The Download: Green is good
The Christian Science Monitor’s print weekly takes an in-depth look at the ongoing green revolution in a “Future of Energy” special issue. Once again, Jimmy Carter comes off as a […]
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The Download: Reviving the outside game?
Governor Deval Patrick spoke often on the campaign trail about having to learn to pause, take a victory lap, and puff out one’s chest, for the benefit of the voters […]
