A stormy season for short-term rentals on Nantucket
By Jennifer Smith
The wealthy enclave of Nantucket is, like its neighbors on the Cape, trying to chart a path forward as a community torn between the rental economy and a housing crunch.
Federal funding for I-90 Allston project in jeopardy
By Bruce Mohl
The massive package of tax and spending cuts President Trump signed into law on July 4 contains a provision that eliminates a federal transportation grant program that set aside $335 million last year for the nearly $2 billion I-90 Allston highway project in Boston.
In enforcing new climate law, a dispute over the ‘obligation to serve’ natural gas customers
By Bhaamati Borkhetaria
Massachusetts’s 2024 climate law aims to hasten the clean energy transition to meet the state’s climate goals, but a dispute over whether natural gas utility companies have an “obligation to serve” natural gas could stall the transition off of fossil-fuel infrastructure.
Grid operator forecasting 11% increase in electricity consumption by 2034
By Bruce Mohl
The operator of the New England power grid released a study saying a 10-year downturn in consumption of electricity from the region’s generating plants is coming to an end and giving way to the need for more electricity production over the next decade.
On Heritage Road
By Dave Denison
In the heart of suburbia, anxieties about the new economy. This article first appeared in CommonWealth’s Spring 1996 issue, the premiere issue of the magazine.
Keeping time with MBTA’s Phil Eng
More than 800,000 people ride the MBTA every day. This week on the Codcast, reporter Gin Dumcias is joined by Phil Eng, general manager of the T, to talk about the state of the system and what lies down the track.
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