The following is an open letter to the Department of Public Health after Mass General Brigham’s decision on Monday to seek a postponement until May 16 in filing a performance improvement […]
Dear DPH, here’s a strategy for handling MGB
Posted inThe Download
A steep fall for Cannon-Grant
FOR MONICA CANNON-GRANT, the limelight has proved to be a decidedly double-edged sword. The long-time Black Boston activist rocketed to prominence amid the country’s racial reckoning of recent years. It […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
A steep fall for Cannon-Grant
FOR MONICA CANNON-GRANT, the limelight has proved to be a decidedly double-edged sword. The long-time Black Boston activist rocketed to prominence amid the country’s racial reckoning of recent years. It […]
Posted inEnvironment, State House News Service, Transportation
Senate seeks fixed date for bus electrification
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE WARNING THAT the pace of electrification underway for the MBTA’s bus fleet is “too slow for the Legislature,” a top senator is newly forecasting that his […]
Posted inEducation
Massachusetts needs to diversify its educator workforce
THERE IS A powerful cultural connection when our students see teachers and leaders who look like them. Having diverse teachers exposes students from all walks of life to various cultural […]
Posted inEconomy
Fixing early ed system could cost $1.5 billion a year
MASSACHUSETTS’S EARLY CHILDHOOD education system is unaffordable and inaccessible to too many families, and it will cost an estimated $1.5 billion a year to improve it, according to a report […]
Posted inThe Codcast
A ‘nightmare experience’ yields a few positive takeaways
Land Court Judge David Foster ordered the scrap metal export business at Brayton Point in Somerset to shut down largely because of what he heard and saw on a visit […]
Posted inThe Download
How 3 women helped drive a scrap metal business out of Somerset
LAND COURT JUDGE Robert Foster ordered the scrap metal export business at Brayton Point in Somerset to shut down largely because of what he heard and saw on a visit to […]
Posted inEnvironment
How 3 women helped drive a scrap metal business out of Somerset
LAND COURT JUDGE Robert Foster ordered the scrap metal export business at Brayton Point in Somerset to shut down largely because of what he heard and saw on a visit to […]
Posted inHealth Care
Mass. health care spending actually dropped in 2020
BE CAREFUL what you wish for. After years of ever-increasing spending on health care that left policymakers struggling to contain costs, Massachusetts finally found the key to lowering spending on […]
Posted inOpinion
Van Welie is wrong about natural gas
IN RESPONSE to Russia’s unjust invasion of Ukraine, the European Union announced it will rapidly accelerate its transition from natural gas – much of which it gets from Russia – […]
Posted inOpinion
Why the MBTA is key — to easing the housing crunch
MASSACHUSETTS IS EXPERIENCING a severe housing crisis. Talk to anyone who has tried to purchase a home in the past few years or tried to find an affordable apartment and […]
Posted inTransportation
Poftak says show me the money
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A GROWING CHORUS of officials and activists have been pushing for the MBTA to roll out a reduced-price option for low-income riders, but launching that kind […]
Posted inOpinion
Progress being made on digital inequity — but more needed
THE COVID-19 pandemic brought education to computers and tablets, business to online marketplaces, and social activity to Zoom – all while bringing deep, systemic digital inequity fully to light. As […]
Posted inHealth Care
Bill tackles insulin affordability
THE COST OF treating her Type 1 diabetes for 15 years has taken a toll on Claire Clendenen’s life. Clendenen, who works in public health in Boston, just recently paid […]
Posted inThe Download
Parsing words at the Mass. Gaming Commission
MASSACHUSETTS LAWMAKERS MADE it pretty clear in 2014 that they wanted to protect midsize theaters from having to compete against event venues run by casinos, inserting into the gaming law […]
Posted inArts and Culture
Parsing words at the Mass. Gaming Commission
MASSACHUSETTS LAWMAKERS MADE it pretty clear in 2014 that they wanted to protect midsize theaters from having to compete against event venues run by casinos, inserting into the gaming law that […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
House leader questions implementation of criminal justice law
THE TOP HOUSE lawmaker on criminal justice issues is accusing the Baker administration of “outright resistance” to implementing the state’s criminal justice reform law. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Michael Day, […]
Posted inTransportation
MBTA nearing a financial cliff
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE MBTA might inch to the edge of a financial “cliff” as soon as fiscal year 2024, when the agency will have exhausted all of the […]
Posted inHealth Care
Massachusetts will drop 3,700 from COVID death count
MASSACHUSETTS WILL REVISE its COVID-19 death count downwards by around 3,700 people as the state shifts to using a new definition to count deaths attributed to coronavirus. “We believe […]
Posted inHealth Care
Eating disorders are ravaging young people
AN EATING DISORDER epidemic is growing. Clinicians are seeing eating disorders in children at younger and younger ages, and now, due to the pandemic, eating disorders among teens are at an […]
Posted inThe Download
Lawmakers are revising road funding formula
THE HOUSE’S TRANSPORTATION policy leader pledged Wednesday that lawmakers will consider revising the state’s road and bridge funding formula, an indication that years of complaints by rural lawmakers may finally […]
Posted inGambling
Gaming Commission backs off oversight of Everett entertainment complex
THE MASSACHUSETTS GAMING Commission indicated on Thursday that it will not require a proposed entertainment complex across the street from Encore Boston Harbor to be subject to the commission’s regulatory […]
Posted inTransportation
Lawmakers are revising road funding formula
THE HOUSE’S TRANSPORTATION policy leader pledged Wednesday that lawmakers will consider revising the state’s road and bridge funding formula, an indication that years of complaints by rural lawmakers may finally […]