THE FEDERAL AGENCY evaluating the environmental impact of Vineyard Wind provided no explanation for its decision to extend the time period for review beyond Friday, but noted it has until […]
Feds: Vineyard Wind review window ends in 2020
Posted inThe Download
ACLU sues MassDOT over surveillance data
The hits won’t stop for the state’s Department of Transportation. The issue this time? The use of the state’s driver’s license database for surveillance by federal agencies. The ACLU of […]
Posted inUncategorized
ACLU sues MassDOT over surveillance data
THE HITS WON’T STOP for the state’s Department of Transportation. The issue this time? The use of the state’s driver’s license database for surveillance by federal agencies. The ACLU of […]
Posted inEnvironment
Unsettling news for Vineyard Wind
VINEYARD WIND, the company seeking to build a large wind farm off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, faced some uncertainty on Wednesday after federal regulators said they wouldn’t be taking […]
Posted inOpinion
Benson carbon pricing bill is smart policy
CARBON PRICING is picking up steam in Massachusetts, and Rep. Jen Benson’s bill to promote green infrastructure and reduce carbon emissions (H2810) has gained enough political support to make oil […]
Posted inUncategorized
Journalists describe low pay, long hours
TURNING DOWN a $28,000 a year job. Taking the $28,000 a year job but working a second job on top of it. Working 70 hour weeks as the sole staffer […]
Posted inTransportation
House leaders parlay on transpo legislation
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE House Speaker Robert DeLeo met with the House chairs of the ways and means, revenue and transportation committees for about two hours Wednesday morning to sketch […]
Posted inTransportation
T cautious on biz-funded management initiative
DESPITE A DESPERATE NEEDÂ for management talent, the MBTA has moved very cautiously in taking advantage of a novel initiative spearheaded by several Massachusetts business groups offering money for training and […]
Posted inPolitics
Baker proposes new ride-hailing regs
Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday proposed a range of new regulations to prevent abuses of the Uber and Lyft ride-hailing platforms and to more precisely monitor how those on-demand travel […]
Posted inPolitics
Could partisanship become justification for Census query?
READING BETWEEN THE lines of two blockbuster Supreme Court rulings this summer, it’s easy to guess what the Trump administration’s next move might be to try to put a citizenship […]
Posted inThe Download
Could partisanship become justification for Census query?
Reading between the lines of two blockbuster Supreme Court rulings this summer, it’s easy to guess what the Trump administration’s next move might be to try to put a citizenship […]
Posted inOpinion
Late budget isn’t a ‘governance weakness’
LIKE EVERY YEAR since 2010, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts began fiscal year 2020 on July 1, 2019, without an approved budget in place and currently relies on an interim budget […]
Posted inUncategorized
Trahan filing bill, ignores Pence’s assurances
US REP. LORI TRAHAN on Wednesday described her recent trip to detention facilities along the US- Mexico border last week, talking about how the conditions she saw spurred her to […]
Posted inTransportation
Red Line ridership continues to lag
Red Line ridership continued to lag behind normal levels during the last week of June – the continuation of a trend that began after a train car derailed at the […]
Posted inOpinion
Mass. carbon tax: Poor bang for buck
ON THE MATTER of climate change, politicians have reached a point where they will throw anything they have at the problem without a thought to the economic consequences or, for […]
Posted inThe Download
Safety allegations raise control board issues
The MBTA’s Fiscal and Management Control Board is widely viewed as a government success story – five, unpaid gubernatorial appointees who have brought public scrutiny to the inner workings of […]
Posted inNews Analysis
Safety allegations raise control board issues
THE MBTA’s FISCAL and Management Control Board is widely viewed as a government success story – five, unpaid gubernatorial appointees who have brought public scrutiny to the inner workings of […]
Posted inTransportation
Consider the benefit of water transit
EVERY DAY ACROSS OUR COMMONWEALTH, congested roads, structurally deficient bridges, and unreliable rail and bus options frustrate workers, residents, and visitors at all hours of the day and night. It is no secret that Massachusetts’ transportation infrastructure is in dire need of […]
Posted inTransportation
Lawmakers planning RMV oversight hearing this month
STATE LAWMAKERS WILL CONDUCT an oversight hearing later this month to look into problems at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, where administrative lapses delayed license suspensions for nearly 900 people. […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Two views of the pause in ICE courthouse arrests
The CommonWealth Codcast hosted Center for Immigration Studies’ Jessica Vaughan and immigration attorney Matt Cameron to break down the history behind courthouse arrests in Massachusetts, and what a recent decision […]
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Two views of the pause in ICE courthouse arrests
LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AGO, US District Court Judge Indira Talwani took the unprecedented step of approving a temporary injunction blocking US Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents from making civil […]
Posted inThe Download
Two views of the pause in ICE courthouse arrests
Less than two weeks ago, US District Court Judge Indira Talwani took the unprecedented step of approving a temporary injunction blocking US Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents from making civil […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Old friends now in Beacon Hill face-off
A SHOWDOWN BETWEEN Beacon Hill veterans is unfolding as Secretary of State William Galvin seeks to bar former House speaker Sal DiMasi from registering as a State House lobbyist because […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Baker undermining solitary confinement initiative
LAST YEAR’S CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM LAWÂ tried to nudge the state toward a more humane policy on solitary confinement in the state’s prisons and jails by adding due process protections for […]