BOSTON GLOBE Media Partners produced emails and text messages on Monday contradicting the claims of a series of prominent scientists who claimed they were interviewed for Globe sponsored content without […]
Globe refutes claims made by scientists in CommonWealth article
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DiZoglio vows to audit the Legislature if elected auditor
I WAS DISAPPOINTED by Bruce Mohl’s recent post in CommonWealth magazine relative to the Massachusetts auditor’s race entitled, “Standing up campaign promises of auditor candidates.” A more fitting title might […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Public safety secretary responds to criminal justice reform concerns
AFTER THE CHAIRMAN of the House Judiciary Committee questioned Gov. Charlie Baker’s commitment to implementing the criminal justice and police reform laws, Baker officials defended their efforts in a detailed […]
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Cocktails-to-go, outdoor dining will continue another year
RESTAURANTS WILL be allowed to sell cocktails-to-go for another year, under a bill Gov. Charlie Baker signed Friday. The Legislature and Baker agreed to extend the popular pandemic-era policy to […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Michelle Wu on the need for “bold, urgent” change
CommonWealth Magazine · Michelle Wu on the need for “bold, urgent” change — and responding directly to detractors
Posted inThe Download
Wu addresses need for ‘bold’ change – and why she tangles directly with critics
IF MICHELLE WU has moved quickly on lots of fronts as Boston’s new mayor, it’s because she has spent years thinking about the issues she now has the power to […]
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Wu addresses need for ‘bold’ change – and why she tangles directly with critics
IF MICHELLE WU has moved quickly on lots of fronts as Boston’s new mayor, it’s because she has spent years thinking about the issues she now has the power to […]
Posted inOpinion
The rush to tear families apart
WHO GAVE A DAMN about Harmony Montgomery? I don’t mean now, as governors and other politicians fall all over themselves expressing shock and outrage. I mean who gave a damn […]
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How Mass. can break the child abuse cycle
IT’S NOT REALLY that hard to fix a child welfare system: just listen to your gut instinct – and do the opposite. Gut instinct says: David Almond died a horrible death […]
Posted inArts and Culture
Small-town challenges and conflicts plague efforts to save historic inn
IN THE LATE 1800s, wealthy people would travel in the summer from Boston to the rural Worcester County town of Petersham for fresh air, tennis, croquet, and views of Mount […]
Posted inOpinion
Addressing the drinking water gap in Mass.
AMONG THE MANY progressive actions taken in Massachusetts, access to clean water was deemed a right guaranteed by Article 97 of the state Constitution in 1972, yet over half a […]
Posted inTransportation
Our legislation expands transit tax benefits
IN EXPLORING legislation to expand commuter transit benefits, we sought to save Massachusetts residents money and improve our environment. Then a global pandemic changed the entire transportation landscape. Presently, use […]
Posted inOpinion
Opioid overdose deaths remain stubbornly high
IT IS MY HOPE that one day this public health crisis will be nothing but a memory. It has sickened and killed far too many, torn families apart, and weakened […]
Posted inHealth Care
Mass General Brigham withdraws suburban expansion plan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM officials said Friday the hospital system has withdrawn its controversial proposal to build outpatient care centers in Woburn and Westborough and to expand […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
SJC places safeguards on use of cellphone ‘tower dumps’
THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT will allow the police to continue using “tower dumps,” requests for broad swaths of cellphone data, despite pleas from privacy activists to eliminate the practice. But […]
Posted inThe Download
Should remote access to government continue?
Many byproducts of the pandemic cannot disappear too soon – the illness, the social isolation, the toll constant anxiety is taking on our collective mental health. Yet some societal changes […]
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Should remote access to government continue?
MANY BYPRODUCTS of the pandemic cannot disappear too soon – the illness, the social isolation, the toll constant anxiety is taking on our collective mental health. Yet some societal changes […]
Posted inPolitics
Baker chief of staff Lepore leaving administration
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV. CHARLIE BAKER will say goodbye to his longtime chief of staff Kristen Lepore next month as she plans to depart the administration with just more […]
Posted inPolitics
Chang-Diaz, Healey wrangling over debates
THE TWO DEMOCRATIC gubernatorial candidates continued to wrangle over debates on Thursday, with Attorney General Maura Healey agreeing to two debates after the convention in June and Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz […]
Posted inEconomy
3 Walgreens in Roxbury, Mattapan closed for sanitary violations
THREE WALGREENS stores located in Roxbury and Mattapan were shut down for six days early in March because of extensive and long-running violations of the state sanitary code, but the […]
Posted inEnvironment
An international shout-out for Boston planning efforts
OUR NATION AND WORLD have experienced great trauma in the past two years: a global pandemic, the January 6th Capitol riot, an intense reckoning with past and present racism, and […]
Posted inThe Download
Standing up campaign promises of auditor candidates
The candidates for auditor, particularly the two Democrats, make the office seem pretty sexy. Chris Dempsey, a leading transportation advocate who previously led the successful fight to prevent the Olympics […]
Posted inPolitics
Standing up campaign promises of auditor candidates
THE CANDIDATES for auditor, particularly the two Democrats, make the office seem pretty sexy. Chris Dempsey, a leading transportation advocate who previously led the successful fight to prevent the Olympics […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Judge open to religious discrimination claim on vaccine mandate
AFTER GOV. CHARLIE BAKER instituted an executive branch COVID-19 vaccine mandate, 156 State Police union members asked for religious exemptions. All of them were denied. In seven cases, however, the […]