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 […]
Why did things go wrong at the Registry?
Posted inTransportation
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 […]
Posted inThe Download
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 […]
Posted inUncategorized
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, […]
Posted inOpinion
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 […]
Posted inOpinion
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 […]
Posted inOpinion
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. […]
Posted inPolitics
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 […]
Posted inNews Analysis
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 […]
Posted inUncategorized
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 […]
Posted inThe Download
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 […]
Posted inOpinion
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 […]
Posted inPolitics
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 […]
Posted inEducation
Boston paid $3.6M to winnow teachers from ‘excess pool’
IN A MOVE to cut costs and rid the school district of tenured teachers not getting hired for standard classroom positions, Boston quietly paid out about $3.6 million between 2013 […]
Posted inOpinion
Earmarked funds sometimes make sense
LAST YEAR, the Children’s Advocacy Center of Bristol County opened more than 800 new cases involving the abuse of children in this southeastern Massachusetts county of 550,000. That is a […]
Posted inState House News Service, Uncategorized
Bill would hit Netflix, Hulu with fees
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AS MORE AND MORE Massachusetts residents cut the cord and turn to streaming video services instead of cable TV, a Dedham representative has filed a bill […]
Posted inUncategorized
Cutting against the grain
ORDINARILY, THE FEDERAL RESERVE doesn’t cut interest rates when the economy is going gangbusters, but that’s what happened yesterday. The cut, which brings the rate to between 2 and 2.25 percent, […]
Posted inThe Download
Cutting against the grain
Ordinarily, the Federal Reserve doesn’t cut interest rates when the economy is going gangbusters, but that’s what happened yesterday. The cut, which brings the rate to between 2 and 2.25 […]
Posted inOpinion
Time to put an end to whack-a-mole electricity sellers
Attorney General Maura Healey’s office issued a new report on Thursday indicating that consumers who signed on with competitive electricity suppliers between July 2017 and June 2018 paid $76.2 million […]
Posted inPolitics
Ranked-choice may be headed to ballot
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE SUPPORTERS OF RANKED CHOICE VOTING plan to file an initiative petition by next week to put the voting reform on the 2020 ballot in case they […]
Posted inUncategorized
Offshore wind price protection eliminated
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER and the Legislature on Wednesday rushed through a measure that eliminates the state requirement that the next offshore wind contract come in at a price lower than […]
Posted inPolitics
A first: Baker signs budget with no spending vetoes
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER signed the $43.1 billion fiscal 2020 budget on Wednesday without vetoing any spending measures, which may be a first in modern Massachusetts history. House Speaker Robert DeLeo […]
Posted inPolitics
Senator calls for Registry official to go
AS POLICYMAKERS INVESTIGATE how things could have gone so wrong at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday suggested the problems long preceded his administration while a […]
Posted inPolitics
Lawmakers eat away at transparency
WE’RE PRETTY SURE it’s not what our friends at State House News Service had in mind when they dubbed their weekly podcast “State House Takeout.” And if lawmakers haven’t budged on […]