STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE COST OF GAS in Massachusetts set a record Monday as the average price per gallon soared to $4.16, with drivers on the Cape and islands […]
Record gas prices spur calls for tax relief
Posted inHealth Care
Supreme Judicial Court to consider medical aid in dying caseÂ
WHEN ROGER KLIGLER was a practicing physician, he had terminally ill patients ask him to end their suffering. “As a physician, I felt I could not do that. I could […]
Posted inNews Analysis
Boston’s downtown at risk as workers stay remote
AMERICA IS DOTTED with remnants of economies of the past. Think gold rush towns, factory cities, rail towns, and coal towns, to name a few. All served their purpose, and […]
Posted inArts and Culture
Encore says 999 seats available for fight night
ENCORE BOSTON HARBOR says only 999 tickets are being sold to a mixed martial arts event being held next week in its grand ballroom, which would mean the fight night […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Chang-Diaz aims for big, progressive change
State Sen. Sonia Chang Diaz’s mother was a social worker, who helped women and children living on the margins overcome systemic barriers. Her father was a Costa Rican-born NASA astronaut […]
Posted inThe Download
Chang-Diaz aims for big, progressive change
State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz’s mother was a social worker, who helped women and children living on the margins overcome systemic barriers. Her father was a Costa Rican-born NASA astronaut who […]
Posted inPolitics
Chang-Diaz aims for big, progressive change
STATE SEN. SONIA CHANG-DIAZ’S mother was a social worker, who helped women and children living on the margins overcome systemic barriers. Her father was a Costa Rican-born NASA astronaut who […]
Posted inOpinion
A breakdown provides lessons on reliable train service
JUST BEFORE 6 p.m. on Sunday, after passing through Framingham, the train to Worcester jerked, then gently stopped. My friend and I peered outside the window. The lady opposite me […]
Posted inArts and Culture
New Samuel Slater Experience spotlights ‘father of American manufacturing’
AS SAMUEL SLATER traveled from England to the United States in 1789, he voiced his ambitions to revolutionize the US textile industry with knowledge he had gained in England. Yet […]
Posted inOpinion
How Harvard could become a higher ed hero
IT MAY NOT always take money to make money, but it sure helps. Last year, according to the recently released 2021 NACUBO-TIAA Study of Endowments, Harvard University’s famed endowment grew […]
Posted inOpinion
COVID therapies important step on pathway out of pandemic
MASSACHUSETTS IS THANKFULLY seeing sustained decreases in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was limited testing capability, no specific therapies, and no […]
Posted inState House News Service, Uncategorized
State House dropping mask, vaccine requirements
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE WITH THE COVID-19 pandemic’s two-year anniversary approaching, legislative leaders lifted the mask mandate and proof-of-vaccination-or-negative-test requirement for entry into the State House, starting on Monday. House […]
Posted inEconomy
Report knocks Senate staff pay scale as unclear, lacking transparencyÂ
LEADERS IN THE Massachusetts Senate are vowing to overhaul the pay structure for Senate staff, after a confidential report found that the Senate lacks transparency in how salaries are set […]
Posted inTransportation
Save the T’s electric trolley buses
EARLY IN 1966 I began a new job. My commute was from Boston to Watertown Square. I took the Red Line and transferred, weather protected, to the Watertown electric trolley […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar TsarnaevÂ
THE SUPREME COURT reinstated the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in a split 6-3 decision. The decision was written by Justice Clarence Thomas. The three liberal justices […]
Posted inThe Download
Senate passes ‘period poverty’ bill
Virtually every woman of child-bearing age has had that panicked moment: she gets her period unexpectedly in a public bathroom and doesn’t have menstrual products. For low-income women and girls […]
Posted inUncategorized
Senate passes ‘period poverty’ bill
VIRTUALLY EVERY WOMAN of child-bearing age has had that panicked moment: she gets her period unexpectedly in a public bathroom and doesn’t have menstrual products. For low-income women and girls […]
Posted inOpinion
West-East rail is what needs to happen
MASSACHUSETTS IS FACING an unprecedented moment. I’m not talking about the COVID-19 pandemic – although the shoe still fits. I’m talking about the billions of dollars in federal funding pouring […]
Posted inEnvironment, State House News Service
Offshore wind bill sails through House
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE LEGISLATION THAT lawmakers hope will turbocharge the growing offshore wind industry in Massachusetts and help the state meet its climate commitments easily sailed through the House […]
Posted inGambling
Gaming Commission sidesteps Encore concert legality
THE MASSACHUSETTS Gaming Commission on Thursday sidestepped a prickly policy question about the legality of concerts and other entertainment being offered by Encore Boston Harbor at its grand ballroom in […]
Posted inEducation
It’s time to end the transcript trap
NEARLY 100,000 STUDENTS and graduates at Massachusetts’s public colleges and universities have been held in a transcript ransom, making them among the 6.6 million nationwide impacted by this unfair practice. […]
Posted inThe Download
Shifting narrative on report on traffic stops
When the Legislature passed a law banning the use of handheld cell phones while driving, a major concern voiced by lawmakers was that it would be enforced disproportionately against Black […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Shifting narrative on report on traffic stops
WHEN THE LEGISLATURE passed a law banning the use of handheld cell phones while driving, a major concern voiced by lawmakers was that it would be enforced disproportionately against Black […]
Posted inOpinion
Defying DPH, hospitals keep shuttering ‘necessary’ facilities
AFTER A DECADE of ceaseless hospital closures and consolidations, and with yet more essential services facing elimination – obstetrics and mental health at Norwood Hospital and pediatrics at Tufts Medical […]