US REPRESENTATIVE SETH MOULTON is one of 24 Democratic candidates running to challenge President Donald Trump, but hasn’t even been able to qualify for the first two rounds of debates. The […]
Moulton soldiers on despite lack of traction
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Moulton soldiers on despite lack of traction
US Representative Seth Moulton is one of 24 Democratic candidates running to challenge President Donald Trump, but hasn’t even been able to qualify for the first two rounds of debates. […]
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Congestion: Worst, bad, Uber and Lyft
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION’S congestion study put some hard data behind the public’s sense – correct, as it turned out – that Greater Boston’s already bad traffic got worse in the […]
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When did it become a crime to fight for good jobs?
THE FEDERAL TRIAL of Tim Sullivan and Ken Brissette has upended the notion of Boston City Hall fighting for the interests of its residents. When I was Mayor Ray Flynn’s […]
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Baker likes managed (toll) lanes
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER has found a form of congestion pricing he likes, but it faces a number of legal and logistical hurdles if it is to take root in Massachusetts. […]
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For complex traffic problem, Baker offers smorgasbord
LACKING A “SILVER BULLET” to deal with traffic congestion, Gov. Charlie Baker presented a scattershot plan Thursday to tinker with intersections, quickly clear road wrecks, and consider building special new […]
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Boston Calling verdict could have legs
TWELVE JURORS took six hours to convict two Boston City Hall aides, closing another chapter in federal prosecutors’ long-running effort to police Massachusetts government and politics. Ken Brissette and Timothy […]
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Boston Calling verdict could have legs
Twelve jurors took six hours to convict two Boston City Hall aides, closing another chapter in federal prosecutors’ long-running effort to police Massachusetts government and politics. Ken Brissette and Timothy […]
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Baker gave a ‘courtesy’ heads-up to O’Connell
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION notified Rep. Shauna O’Connell ahead of time that the governor was appointing the mayor of Taunton as the interim register of probate in Bristol County, but officials […]
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Telecommuting tax credit misses mark
THE MARK OF GOOD PUBLIC POLICY, often honored in the breach, is to identify the most direct means to address a particular problem. In the case of the state’s massive […]
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Bump rejects Holyoke CC bookstore privatization
STATE AUDITOR SUZANNE BUMP rejected an attempt by Holyoke Community College to privatize some of its bookstore operations, saying the school had failed to comply with a number of provisions of a state law placing […]
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As T plugs into e-buses, new questions about garages
THE MBTA HAS outgrown its decades-old bus maintenance garages, and T officials are considering adding around 500 buses to the fleet of roughly 1,000, which some think sets up an […]
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Green Line derailment 6th this year at MBTA
A PRELIMINARY MBTA investigation is blaming operator error for Wednesday morning’s Green Line derailment, the transit authority’s sixth passenger-service derailment in 2019 and the third caused by human error. T […]
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The taxing matter of education funding
When it comes to school funding, do we want to have our cake and eat it too? That’s the conclusion of an annual national poll of views on public education. […]
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The taxing matter of education funding
When it comes to school funding, do we want to have our cake and eat it too? That’s the conclusion of an annual national poll of views on public education. […]
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Wynn fielding calls on adjacent land
THE CEO OF WYNN RESORTS said on Tuesday that his company has been approached by firms looking to partner on an arena or boutique entertainment ventures on land the company […]
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Union charges Globe with unfair labor practice
THE UNION REPRESENTING Boston Globe employees filed an unfair labor practice complaint against the company on Tuesday, alleging management and its attorneys are using “strong-arm tactics” to force draconian concessions […]
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No shoo-in in Taunton
A correction has been added to this story IT MAY HAVE looked like a bipartisan cakewalk at first, but by Tuesday afternoon the race for mayor of Taunton became a […]
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Markey challenger backs repealing Second Amendment
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AFTER DEADLY MASS shootings in Texas and Ohio over the weekend, Democratic US Senate candidate Shannon Liss-Riordan went beyond the usual demands for gun control on […]
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Baker pulls switcheroo in Taunton
SOMETIMES MR. FIX-IT becomes more of a fixer. Gov. Charlie Baker was the latter on Monday when he appointed Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr. as the interim register of probate […]
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Baker pulls switcheroo in Taunton
Sometimes Mr. Fix-it becomes more of a fixer. Gov. Charlie Baker was the latter on Monday when he appointed Taunton Mayor Thomas Hoye Jr. as the interim register of probate […]
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Red Line won’t be at full strength until Oct.
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE MBTA OFFICIALS pushed back the target completion date for full Red Line repairs from Labor Day to sometime in October, but declined to say what prompted […]
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Waltham company supplying DNA test kits to ICE
FEDERAL OFFICIALS ARE USING RAPID DNA testing kits produced by a Massachusetts biotechnology company to verify the family connections of immigrants at the US-Mexico border. The kits, developed by Waltham-based ANDE […]
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Why didn’t Deveney sound the alarm?
IN MID-MAY, Erin Deveney was at a regional conference of registrars when she bumped into Elizabeth Bielecki, her counterpart in New Hampshire. The two registrars started talking about information-sharing, and […]