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. […]
The taxing matter of education funding
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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 […]
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Why did things go wrong at the Registry?
Most of the focus so far in the scandal at the Registry of Motor Vehicles has been on finding out what went wrong. Now attention is starting to shift to […]
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Why did things go wrong at the Registry?
MOST OF THE FOCUS so far in the scandal at the Registry of Motor Vehicles has been on finding out what went wrong. Now attention is starting to shift to […]
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The Codcast: Why did things go wrong at the Registry?
Most of the focus so far in the scandal at the Registry of Motor Vehicles has been on finding out what went wrong. Now attention is starting to shift to […]
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Commissioner abstains on most pot license votes
THE MOST IMPORTANT ROLE for the state’s five-member Cannabis Control Commission is, arguably, its mandate to vote on granting recreational marijuana licenses, without which there can be no growing, manufacturing, […]
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Medicare for All interim steps
WHETHER YOU ARE an avid supporter of the Bernie Sanders-style single-source financing concept (often referred to these days as Medicare For All), dead set against it, or somewhere in-between, you […]
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Justice reinvestment gets seed funding in budget
AS MASSACHUSETTS IMPLEMENTS last year’s sweeping criminal justice reform package, we must stay focused on justice reinvestment—the effort to squeeze more public safety from limited resources by reducing prison terms […]
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America needs a moral revival
WE ARE LIVING in some very dark and difficult days in America. There is a flood of rhetoric from the Trump administration that demonizes and castigates black and brown immigrants. […]
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Baker, citing privacy concerns, vetoes Janus bill
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV. CHARLIE BAKER vetoed a bill Friday that would allow unions to charge non-union employees fees for representing them in certain labor disputes, challenging the House […]
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No beach for Baker
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER hasn’t had much time for the beach this summer. First there was the Red Line derailment on June 11, which knocked the MBTA on its heels and […]
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Anti-ICE protests take aim at secondary targets
ACTIVISTS UNFURLED a large banner off the Green Monster at Fenway park Thursday night, with the words “No ICE, no prisons, no more cages.” The move, which got the immigration […]
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Anti-ICE protests take aim at secondary targets
Activists unfurled a large banner off the Green Monster at Fenway park Thursday night, with the words “No ICE, no prisons, no more cages.” The move, which got the immigration […]
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Don’t include us in charter school crossfire
OCCASIONALLY, WE GET ASKED if Greenfield Commonwealth Virtual School is a charter school. Sometimes, critics point fingers and include us in the charter school conversation. We are not a charter […]
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Who’s looking at a Markey-Kennedy race?
AN ENIGMATIC TELEPHONE SURVEY raised eyebrows among the Massachusetts political establishment this week. The poll, first reported by POLITICO Massachusetts, pitted Massachusetts Congressman Joe Kennedy III against incumbent Senator Ed Markey in […]