AFTER THE 9/11 attacks in 2001, thigh-high bollards and giant planters sprouted outside government buildings across the country to deter terrorists and keep car bombers at bay. Now, some 21 […]
Security bollards being installed in front of State House
Posted inHealth Care
Mass General Brigham ups cost reduction target to $127.8m
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM, after months of consultation with the Health Policy Commission, submitted a second plan for reducing costs that is very similar to its initial plan but with higher […]
Posted inEnvironment
Clean water should be a fundamental human right
MASSACHUSETTS HAS SOME of the most stringent regulations regarding the safety of tap water in the country. However, according to environmental officials, Massachusetts has an estimated 220,000 lead pipe service […]
Posted inGambling
Sports betting regulators confront licensing quirks
THERE’S AN ODD quirk in the law legalizing sports betting in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Gaming Commission is allowed to license seven mobile sports betting apps, in addition to mobile apps […]
Posted inThe Download
Ballot question would shift profits from insurers to dentists
WHY ARE MASSACHUSETTS dentists and orthodontists spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a campaign to change the rules governing dental insurance? Evan Horowitz, executive director of the Center for […]
Posted inPolitics
Ballot question would shift profits from insurers to dentists
WHY ARE MASSACHUSETTS dentists and orthodontists spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a campaign to change the rules governing dental insurance? Evan Horowitz, executive director of the Center for […]
Posted inEconomy
Mass. small businesses going through transition period
THE MASSACHUSETTS SMALL business economy is struggling to recover from COVID-19, even as it enters a major and time-sensitive transitional period. Many long-time small business owners are eying the exits, […]
Posted inHealth, Health Care
Mass. Medical Society president says pandemic ‘ripped the Band-Aid off’ health care inequities Â
SINCE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY president Ted Calianos took the helm of the organization in May, he has been developing priorities that range from restoring trust in medicine to addressing workforce […]
Posted inEnergy
Healey calls National Grid rate hike ‘devastating’
A correction has been added to this story. A SPOKESWOMAN for Attorney General Maura Healey, who represents ratepayers in proceedings before utility regulators, warned that National Grid’s electricity rate hike […]
Posted inThe Download
Dems’ aversion to debates becoming campaign issue
THE NOVEMBER ELECTION in Massachusetts is having a meta moment: Emerging as a major issue in the campaign is the reluctance of some candidates to engage with their opponents over […]
Posted inPolitics
Dems’ aversion to debates becoming campaign issue
THE NOVEMBER ELECTION in Massachusetts is having a meta moment: Emerging as a major issue in the campaign is the reluctance of some candidates to engage with their opponents over […]
Posted inEnergy
National Grid says electricity prices to skyrocket
NATIONAL GRID said the price of electricity it supplies to customers in Massachusetts this winter is going to skyrocket to record levels because the cost of natural gas, the primary […]
Posted inState Government, State House News Service
House budget chief uncertain about economic development bill
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE HOUSE BUDGET chief wants to “get something done in the shortest period of time possible” to revive an economic development bill, but he will not […]
Posted inPolitics
Filings flesh out opposing sides in immigrant driver’s license fight
UNIONS AND LIBERAL-LEANING groups are spearheading the campaign to keep in place the state’s new law granting driver’s licenses to immigrants without legal status, while a repeal effort is being […]
Posted inEducation
White House says 813,000 in Mass. eligible for student debt relief
AN ESTIMATED 813,000 student loan borrowers in Massachusetts will qualify for debt relief under President Biden’s student debt relief plan, according to data released by the White House Tuesday.  As […]
Posted inState Government, State House News Service, The Download
Cambridge progressive seeks to tweak the tax cap
Rep. Mike Connolly is fighting a lonely battle to tweak the state’s tax cap so some of the nearly $3 billion due to go back to Massachusetts taxpayers can be […]
Posted inState Government
Cambridge progressive seeks to tweak the tax cap
REP. MIKE CONNOLLY is fighting a lonely battle to tweak the state’s tax cap so some of the nearly $3 billion due to go back to Massachusetts taxpayers can be […]
Posted inHealth Care
How much is Massachusetts spending on primary, behavioral health care?Â
ONE OF GOV. Charlie Baker’s biggest initiatives that he attempted, but failed, to pass would have reoriented health care spending so a greater portion of health care spending went toward […]
Posted inOpinion
Getting business and government on the same page
WE LIVE in an era of tough and intractable problems, ranging from climate change and racial and income inequality, to an alarming erosion of trust in all our institutions and […]
Posted inEnvironment
Rising sea levels challenging New Bedford hurricane barrier
THE HURRICANE BARRIER at the mouth of New Bedford harbor is closing more often as sea levels rise and could be closed one to two times a day by 2050, […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Innovative court program helps people navigate addiction servicesÂ
CAPE COD DEFENSE attorney Susan Wenzel had a client with mental health and substance use issues who needed help handling both problems and had no health insurance. His criminal case […]
Posted inPolitics
Barnstable commissioner candidate minimizes ties to Oath Keepers
RON BEATY, a Republican candidate for Barnstable County commissioner, said Monday that he made a small donation to the right-wing group Oath Keepers in 2014 but has not been involved […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Bumps in the road for cannabis delivery
Even before Chris Fevry launched Your Green Package, one of the first licensed marijuana courier companies in Massachusetts, he was worried about whether the business model was financially viable. Could […]
Posted inMarijuana
Marijuana delivery companies seek repeal of two-driver rule
EVEN BEFORE Chris Fevry launched Your Green Package, one of the first licensed marijuana courier companies in Massachusetts, he was worried about whether the business model was financially viable. Could […]