SLOT MACHINE REVENUES at Encore Boston Harbor remained lackluster in August, while revenue from table games continued to surge. Numbers released by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission on Monday indicated gross […]
Slots slip, table game revenues keep rising at Encore
Posted inEconomy, State House News Service
Baker wants to sell Hynes, expand BCEC
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION is reviving the idea of expanding the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston’s Seaport and wants permission to sell the Hynes Convention […]
Posted inTransportation
T notes: Half-price reverse commute fare to Foxboro
THE MBTA INTENDS to begin testing commuter rail service between Boston and Foxboro starting October 21, complete with a half-price fare for people who reverse commute to the suburb. The […]
Posted inDrug Addiction
Healey outlines refusal to settle Purdue Pharma lawsuit
ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURA HEALEY says she plans to continue to aggressively pursue litigation against Purdue Pharma, the company that made billions selling prescription painkiller OxyContin, despite the company filing for bankruptcy on Sunday, […]
Posted inThe Codcast
7 healthcare questions for Rick Lord
Rick Lord has a unique perspective on health care in Massachusetts. He serves on the state’s Health Policy Commission. He stepped down in May after more than 28 years as […]
Posted inTransportation
MBTA: Weakened steel ring led to June derailment
This story has been edited to include additional comments made after the findings were first disclosed. A BRITTLE STEEL AXLE on the front of the third car of a 50-year-old […]
Posted inThe Download
7 healthcare questions for Rick Lord
Rick Lord has a unique perspective on health care in Massachusetts. He serves on the state’s Health Policy Commission. He stepped down in May after more than 28 years as […]
Posted inHealth Care
7 healthcare questions for Rick Lord
Rick Lord has a unique perspective on health care in Massachusetts. He serves on the state’s Health Policy Commission. He stepped down in May after more than 28 years as […]
Posted inPolitics
Mass. GOP stepping up its outreach
WITH A TAX DEBATE LOOMING on Beacon Hill, the Massachusetts Republican Party appears to be stepping up its outreach to Bay State voters with a message that GOP candidates and […]
Posted inTransportation
Universal congestion pricing is the way to go
MASSACHUSETTS LIVES and breathes as the Commonwealth of firsts. From the Mayflower to the continent’s first subway system, this state knows what groundbreaking transportation looks like. While we have accomplished […]
Posted inOpinion
A revolutionary idea for a Boston soccer venue
BOSTON, we have a soccer problem. We don’t have a home team. Our club in spirit—the pioneering and resurgent New England Revolution—still reside in the de facto exile of Gillette […]
Posted inPolitics
The ‘conscience of Boston’Â
WHEN MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. led a march from Roxbury to Boston Common in 1965 to protest school segregation in the city, his deepest connection here was a young Roxbury […]
Posted inOpinion
Promising program helps rehabilitate inmates
CRIMINAL JUSTICE has gotten plenty of air time in the presidential debates, including the most recent one. Policing reforms, sentencing reforms, closure of private prisons, and offender voting rights have […]
Posted inOpinion
It’s time to invest in student success
ALL ACROSS AMERICA, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, just over half of the students who begin a college degree end up graduating. Not surprisingly, a higher percentage of students graduate […]
Posted inPolitics
The debaters and the teacher
IT STARTED WHEN former Housing and Urban Development secretary Julián Castro questioned Joe Biden’s memory over what he had said minutes before about automatically enrolling uninsured people into a Medicare-type […]
Posted inThe Download
The debaters and the teacher
It started when former Housing and Urban Development secretary Julián Castro questioned Joe Biden’s memory over what he had said minutes before about automatically enrolling uninsured people into a Medicare-type […]
Posted inTransportation
Pollack’s comment on HOV lane anecdotal
TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Stephanie Pollack is famous for her love of data, but it appears she went with anecdotal evidence on Tuesday when she told local officials that 80 to 90 […]
Posted inTransportation
TransitMatters: South Station expansion unnecessary
THE ADVOCACY GROUP TransitMatters says a number of relatively simple changes in commuter rail operations could increase the number of trains moving in and out of South Station and make […]
Posted inGambling
Chicago casino magnate: “You lose me.”
THE BILLIONAIRE CASINO developer who has been pushing for years to build a casino in Brockton suggested that he will drop his efforts after the Massachusetts Gaming Commission determined Thursday […]
Posted inPolitics
Warren targeted by former donor
ED RENDELL got his money’s worth. The former Pennsylvania governor co-chaired a couple fundraisers for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 2018 re-election bid, and also donated a total of $4,500 to her campaign. […]
Posted inThe Download
Warren targeted by former donor
Ed Rendell got his money’s worth. The former Pennsylvania governor co-chaired a couple fundraisers for Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s 2018 re-election bid, and also donated a total of $4,500 to her […]
Posted inTransportation
Rep faults T for holding info session far from transit
THE MBTA IS holding a series of public meetings about major changes underway on the Green Line. There’s one hitch: The upcoming meeting for the D branch is more than […]
Posted inTransportation
Pollack: HOV lanes aren’t working
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLE lanes, or carpool lanes, north and south of Boston are not really what they’re cracked up to be. The HOV lanes, which are […]
Posted inDrug Addiction
Walsh lays out his vision for Long Island
BOSTON MAYOR MARTY WALSH took a police boat full of reporters and photographers out to Long Island on Wednesday afternoon to try to show them what he sees there. Amid […]