IF THERE IS one thing we can predict with confidence about the Greater Boston labor market, it is that those with only a high school diploma will have very limited […]
Success doesn’t always come through a four-year college degree
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We can’t afford to ban offshore wind developers
THE CONSTRUCTION OF VINEYARD WIND this year is a turning point for the Commonwealth and the country. By this fall, energy from the nation’s first utility-scale offshore wind project will […]
Posted inState Government
Exodus of wealthy residents called non-existent
THE LEFT-LEANING Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center tossed a provocative analysis into the tax reform debate on Beacon Hill on Thursday, issuing a short but pointed brief suggesting the business […]
Posted inHealth Care
To lower drug costs, report says let doctors dispense
IN MASSACHUSETTS, a doctor who diagnoses someone with pneumonia has to send the patient off to a pharmacy to fill a prescription for antibiotics. In most other states, the doctor […]
Posted inThe Download
Greater Boston’s Black population becoming more diverse, dispersed
WHEN THE PRESIDENT of Cape Verde visited Massachusetts earlier this week, after meeting with Gov. Maura Healey at the State House, his big public appearance didn’t come in Boston but […]
Posted inEconomy
Greater Boston’s Black population becoming more diverse, dispersed
WHEN THE PRESIDENT of Cape Verde visited Massachusetts earlier this week, after meeting with Gov. Maura Healey at the State House, his big public appearance didn’t come in Boston but at […]
Posted inOpinion
A letter to Bill McKibben: Do the math
Dear Bill McKibben, Thanks for coming home to Concord/Lexington on April 2 and reminding us how we have wasted precious time since you sounded the alarm in 1989 with “The […]
Posted inTransportation
Ex-Keolis official accused in $8m commuter rail fraud
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A FORMER TOP OFFICIAL at Keolis Commuter Services pleaded not guilty to a slew of federal charges Wednesday after prosecutors alleged that he and another man […]
Posted inThe Download
For Ed Flynn, awkward roles of race healer and redistricting foe
WHEN WILLIAM FAULKNER famously observed that “the past is never dead, it isn’t even past,” he wasn’t referring to Boston’s troubled history on matters of race – but he might as […]
Posted inPolitics
For Ed Flynn, awkward roles of race healer and redistricting foe
WHEN WILLIAM FAULKNER famously observed that “the past is never dead, it isn’t even past,” he wasn’t referring to Boston’s troubled history on matters of race – but he might as […]
Posted inHousing
He’s been living outside in a tent the last three years
MANY RESIDENTS of Greenfield know Greenfield River Park as the local dog park. Others play softball or pickleball there. Some, like Batch, call it home. His small blue and orange […]
Posted inOpinion
How arts enrich the state’s civic life
LOCAL ARTS PROVIDE a wellspring for community – energizing residents and enriching civic life. Our regions benefit from the remarkable ways that arts and cultural expression help people engage, connect, […]
Posted inThe Download
Is there a finance plan for the I-90 Allston project?
There’s been a lot of talk over the last five years about how to design the I-90 Allston project, but very little discussion about how to pay for it. The […]
Posted inTransportation
Is there a finance plan for the I-90 Allston project?
THERE’S BEEN A lot of talk over the last five years about how to design the I-90 Allston project, but very little discussion about how to pay for it. The […]
Posted inTransportation
MBTA ups sign-on bonuses by $3,000
THE MBTA said on Monday that it is increasing its sign-on bonus for new employees and expanding its reach beyond bus operators. The T said the previous sign-on bonus of […]
Posted inOpinion
No more climate legislation needed; it’s time for action
IN 2021, after extensive negotiation, the Massachusetts Legislature passed the Next Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy, which calls for reducing emissions by 75 percent by 2040 and 85 percent […]
Posted inGovernment
Boston retailers fined total of $92,000 for consumer violations
SEVERAL BOSTON RETAIL CHAINS were hit with a total of $92,000 in fines in 2022 for violating state consumer protection laws, including provisions intended to assure that customers pay no […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Jon Santiago: ‘Everyone is rooting for a veteran’
CommonWealth Magazine · Jon Santiago’s path to Secretary of Veterans’ Services
Posted inHealth Care, State Government
Jon Santiago: ‘Everyone is rooting for a veteran’
FOR A TIME, it seemed like Jon Santiago was juggling every job he could. The US Army reserve major worked as an emergency room doctor at Boston Medical Center during […]
Posted inThe Download
Jon Santiago: ‘Everyone is rooting for a veteran’
FOR A TIME, it seemed like Jon Santiago was juggling every job he could. The US Army reserve major worked as an emergency room doctor at Boston Medical Center during the […]
Posted inTransportation
Hiring may be the MBTA’s biggest challenge
THE MBTA’S subway operations control center is a microcosm of the challenges facing the transit authority. Last June, the Federal Transit Administration issued an initial safety report that said the […]
Posted inOpinion
HDIP addresses need for market-rate housing
WE ALL KNOW that New Bedford is facing a housing crisis that involves not only rising rents and home prices, but a severe shortage in housing options across all income […]
Posted inOpinion
The dirty secret about ‘clean’ electric vehicles
AUTOMOBILES EMIT tailpipe carbon emissions, we all know that, and these emissions in the aggregate are now the largest single source of carbon emissions in Massachusetts and many other states, […]
Posted inOpinion
ARPA is giving local officials the tools they need
LIKE MANY MAYORS, I am often faced with the choice of investing taxpayer dollars to address immediate needs or to make investments whose benefits will be realized only in the long […]