AT UMASS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER in Worcester on Monday, there were 63 patients stuck in the emergency room waiting for an inpatient hospital bed to open up. Meanwhile, there were […]
Hospitals report over 1,000 patients awaiting discharges with nowhere to go
Posted inTransportation
MBTA officials say train derailments trending downward
MBTA OFFICIALS said on Monday that the number of derailments has been trending downward over the last few years, falling by more than 50 percent since 2019. According to figures […]
Posted inBallot Questions, Courts, Economy, Politics
SJC lets liquor license question head to ballot
A QUESTION REFORMING the state’s liquor license system will continue on to the November ballot, after the Supreme Judicial Court on Monday upheld the attorney general’s decision that the question is […]
Posted inHealth Care
Speaker Mariano says health care regulation needs updates
IT”S BEEN A DECADE since the Legislature revamped the way the state regulates health care, passing legislation establishing the Health Policy Commission and instituting a cost control benchmark. House Speaker […]
Posted inThe Download
Speaker Mariano says health care regulation needs updates
It’s been a decade since the Legislature revamped the way the state regulates health care, passing legislation establishing the Health Policy Commission and instituting a cost control benchmark. House Speaker […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Speaker Mariano says healthcare regulation needs updates
CommonWealth Magazine · Speaker Mariano says healthcare regulation needs updates
Posted inOpinion
State not living up to environmental justice responsibilities
JUST OVER A YEAR after Gov. Charlie Baker signed “An Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy,” which contained protections for environmental justice populations, the state has found […]
Posted inOpinion
Cemeteries exploring climate-friendly burials
IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE Greater Boston without its expansive cemeteries that serve as both resting places and public spaces – Mount Auburn, Forest Hills, Mount Hope. These garden cemeteries replaced […]
Posted inOpinion
Treat gun violence like the public health crisis it is
GUN VIOLENCE is a public health crisis. That’s what we continue to hear from healthcare leaders across Massachusetts and the nation. It may seem odd at first blush to use […]
Posted inThe Download
In Mass., vocational success – and admissions debate
THE STATE’S VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL schools have long stood as one of the unheralded success stories of the education reform efforts begun in the early 1990s. A new book, published by Pioneer […]
Posted inEducation
In Mass., vocational success – and admissions debate
THE STATE’S VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL schools have long stood as one of the unheralded success stories of the education reform efforts begun in the early 1990s. A new book, published by Pioneer […]
Posted inPolitics
Poll indicates 25% of Mass. residents are moving or thinking about it
NEARLY A QUARTER of Massachusetts voters surveyed in a recent poll said they are considering or have made plans to leave the state to reside elsewhere. The poll, commissioned by […]
Posted inMarijuana, State Government
Do marijuana community impact fees really address impacts?
AARON VEGA, director of the Office of Economic Development and Planning for the city of Holyoke, said the money Holyoke collects in community impact fees from cannabis companies will address […]
Posted inEducation
State control is not the answer for Boston’s public schools
EARLIER THIS YEAR, Gov. Charlie Baker and state Education Commissioner Jeff Riley seemed to be looking to leverage shock doctrine psychology and impose a school takeover scheme known as “receivership” […]
Posted inTransportation
MBTA nearing its day of reckoning
A LITTLE OVER a year ago, US Rep. Stephen Lynch and the state’s congressional delegation hammered away at the MBTA for implementing a series of cuts designed to save money […]
Posted inBook Review
Opportunity lost
The second of two takes on the new book by the state’s governor and his former chief of staff. Read the first one here, by Republican activist Ed Lyons. ALMOST […]
Posted inImmigration, Transportation
Undocumented immigrants can get Mass. drivers’ licenses in July 2023
THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE completed its override of Gov. Charlie Baker’s veto on Thursday, allowing immigrants without legal status to obtain a driver’s license in Massachusetts. The state is the 17th, in addition […]
Posted inThe Download
Employer health plans are expensive in Massachusetts
If you work for a Massachusetts company, it’s likely your employer offers health insurance. But it will cost you. Survey results of 806 employers released Thursday by the Center for […]
Posted inHealth Care
Employer health plans are expensive in Massachusetts
IF YOU WORK for a Massachusetts company, it’s likely your employer offers health insurance. But it will cost you. Survey results of 806 employers released Thursday by the Center for […]
Posted inTransportation
MassDOT setting aside $20m to help recruit engineers
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ADD CIVIL ENGINEERS to the list of public-sector jobs in high demand these days. With Department of Transportation workers heading to the exits in larger numbers […]
Posted inOpinion
Roadmap to go on sports betting
MAY 14 MARKED the four-year anniversary of the US Supreme Court’s decision that struck down the federal ban on state-authorized sports betting. For four years, Massachusetts – home to one […]
Posted inPolitics
Legislature moves toward adopting permanent voting by mail
THE MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE is poised to adopt permanent voting by mail, but not same-day voter registration. A committee of House-Senate negotiators on Wednesday released the final version of a voting […]
Posted inDrug Addiction
Opioid overdose deaths up by 9 percent last year
THE NUMBER OF OPIOID overdose deaths in Massachusetts rose by 9 percent in 2021, a worrying number in a state that had started seeing some success in addressing the opioid […]
Posted inThe Download
Will San Francisco DA recall reverberate here?
ON SUNDAY, it was Steph Curry’s relentless rain of 3s that reverberated 3,000 miles away in Boston. The question this morning is whether the moves made on Tuesday by San […]