NO, THE SKY is not falling. That was the message on Wednesday from Wu administration officials who sought to counter the alarms being sounded by Boston’s real estate industry, which […]
Team Wu pushes back on rent control alarms
Posted inTransportation
New Orange Line train breaks down – on I-495
AFTER A NEARLY seven-month hiatus, new Orange Line trains are once again being shipped from the assembly plant in Springfield to Wellington Station in Medford. But one new train took longer […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
The problem isn’t just a few bad apples
Now we learn that Inspector General Glen Cuhna, who once seemed ready to pin a massive state drug lab scandal on a lone chemist, Annie Dookhan, actually referred four other lab workers for […]
Posted inEnergy, Environment
Avangrid seeking price relief on offshore wind, hydro projects
THE CEO of Avangrid told financial analysts on Wednesday that his company needs price relief on two of the biggest renewable projects in New England – a major wind farm […]
Posted inThe Download
Mayor moves to ease residency rules in New Bedford
WITH ROUGHLY 15 percent of non-school municipal jobs in New Bedford vacant, Mayor Jon Mitchell is pushing to do away with residency requirements for most management positions. New Bedford, like […]
Posted inEconomy, Government
Mayor moves to ease residency rules in New Bedford
WITH ROUGHLY 15 percent of non-school municipal jobs in New Bedford vacant, Mayor Jon Mitchell is pushing to do away with residency requirements for most management positions. New Bedford, like […]
Posted inEnergy, State Government, State House News Service
Tepper names former colleague to head DOER
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE DEPARTMENT of Energy Resources will be under new management as the Healey administration looks to implement its own vision and strategy to advance the state’s […]
Posted inOpinion
Gun violence keeps creeping closer and closer
ON MONDAY evening, February 13, 43-year-old Anthony Dwayne McRae shot and killed three students and critically injured five others in Berkey Hall and the Student Union on the campus of […]
Posted inEconomy
Time to crack down on wage theft in Mass.
WAGE THEFT IS more common than armed robbery in our country and three times as costly to the economy. Here in Massachusetts, wage theft costs individual workers more than $1 […]
Posted inThe Download
What’s a conversion foundation and why it matters
WHEN THE national health care company Optum acquired Massachusetts-based Atrius Health last year, the deal set the stage for the emergence of the state’s third conversion foundation. A conversion foundation is […]
Posted inHealth
What’s a conversion foundation and why it matters
WHEN THE national health care company Optum acquired Massachusetts-based Atrius Health last year, the deal set the stage for the emergence of the state’s third conversion foundation. A conversion foundation […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Meet the leaders of the state’s two health care conversion foundations
CommonWealth Magazine · Meet the leaders of the state’s two health care conversion foundations
Posted inOpinion
I saw parallels to Clancy case as a juvenile court judge
THE TRAGIC DEATH of the beautiful Clancy children may portend a long overdue indictment of the cavalier use of powerful psychotropic medications over non-pharmacological methods of treatment for those suffering […]
Posted inOpinion
Hiring new GM at T shouldn’t be first priority
THERE IS A VIEW among many in and out of the transit advocacy world – a misguided view in my opinion – that it should be a top priority for […]
Posted inOpinion
Direct care workers made my sister feel part of a family
NURSING HOMES AND OTHER FACILITIES that employ direct care staff are experiencing unprecedented job vacancies and difficulty recruiting and retaining skilled workers. My job in healthcare real estate gives me […]
Posted inState Government, State House News Service
Healey taps Rep. Santiago as veterans secretary
STATAE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV. MAURA HEALEY will tap Rep. Jon Santiago of Boston, a major in the US Army Reserve, as the state’s next veterans’ services secretary, Healey announced […]
Posted inTransportation
GLX rescuer Dalton set to leave MBTA at end of month
JOHN DALTON, the manager who got the Green Line extension into Medford and Somerville built, is leaving the MBTA at the end of the month for a new job. A […]
Posted inThe Download
MBTA seeks charges in connection with suicide attempt
ATTEMPTING SUICIDE IS treated as a crime in a handful of countries around the world, but not in the United States – which is why the MBTA’s decision to seek […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
MBTA seeks charges in connection with suicide attempt
ATTEMPTING SUICIDE IS treated as a crime in a handful of countries around the world, but not in the United States – which is why the MBTA’s decision to seek […]
Posted inHealth, Health Care, Opinion
Remove the hurdles to assisted living
AS THE POPULATION of Massachusetts ages, assisted living is becoming an increasingly popular option – safer and more supportive than being home alone, but not as intensive as a nursing […]
Posted inPolitics
Moran moves into House’s No. 2 spot
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE REPS. MIKE MORAN of Boston, Alice Peisch of Wellesley, and Frank Moran of Lawrence all got big promotions Thursday as House Democrats rolled out their committee […]
Posted inEducation
Researcher warns of ‘fiscal cliff’ for US school districts
SCHOOL SYSTEMS HAVE been awash in millions of dollars of federal aid meant to cope with the impact of the COVID pandemic, but the gravy train will quickly turn into […]
Posted inThe Download
Dueling visions for Boston’s new ‘participatory budgeting’ office
WHAT LOOKED LIKE a minor disagreement last week about the size of a committee guiding Boston’s new participatory budget process may have been more of a referendum on how far […]
Posted inGovernment
Dueling visions for Boston’s new ‘participatory budgeting’ office
WHAT LOOKED LIKE a minor disagreement last week about the size of a committee guiding Boston’s new participatory budget process may have been more of a referendum on how far the […]