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 […]
Old friends now in Beacon Hill face-off
Posted inCriminal Justice
Baker undermining solitary confinement initiative
LAST YEAR’S CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM LAW 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 […]
Posted inOpinion
Setting record straight on community colleges
IN RESPONSE to the recent op-ed written by Juma Crawford and Marisa Meldonian, Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) and Roxbury Community College (RCC) would like to offer a few points […]
Posted inTransportation
Red Line ridership off 10% after derailment
RED LINE RIDERSHIP dropped roughly 10 percent the week a train derailed at the JFK/UMass Station and it only partially recovered the following week, according to the latest figures available. […]
Posted inOpinion
We need to blend liberal arts, workplace experience
A LIBERAL ARTS college education has always been viewed as a foundation for a career or for advanced study in a graduate or professional program. The notion has been to […]
Posted inOpinion
The missing ingredient to win more transit funding: results
IF PLANNED AND PROMOTED well, buses, trains, and bikes can be tremendous resources for how we’ll get around in the future. For now, the US has invested in an almost entirely […]
Posted inOpinion
Our country is the sum of many parts
AT THE BEGINNING OF JUNE, I filed a resolution in the Boston City Council to recognize Immigrant Heritage Month. As a first-generation American, the daughter of a Polish mother and […]
Posted inOpinion
Don’t end competitive electricity market
IN 1998, MASSACHUSETTS made the groundbreaking decision to deregulated the electricity industry – declaring for themselves that they should have the right to choose their electric supplier. Now, more than […]
Posted inOpinion
Opportunity moment in transportation
1/ The death of Lee Iacocca is a metaphor for the passing of an auto centric era. This great corporate titan of auto-mobility embodied much of the false optimism & […]
Posted inTransportation
Video: Pyrotechnics preceded June derailment
A VIDEO OF the Red Line derailment on June 11 from the vantage point of the JFK/UMass Station shows the Braintree-bound train coming into view around a slight curve when […]
Posted inHealth Care
We must address rural physician shortage
[Correction: This piece was updated to reflect the fact that enrollment in US medical schools is not declining, as originally stated, but fewer graduates are entering primary care.] ACROSS […]
Posted inThe Download
Baker flunks driver’s license test
The Registry of Motor Vehicles, with its interminable waiting time and paperwork, has long been the state bureaucracy bane of drivers’ existence. Now it’s proving to be the same for […]
Posted inPolitics
Baker flunks driver’s license test
THE REGISTRY OF MOTOR VEHICLES, with its interminable waiting time and paperwork, has long been the state bureaucracy bane of drivers’ existence. Now it’s proving to be the same for […]
Posted inTransportation
Baker: RMV failed to do part of its job
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER and Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack took responsibility on Tuesday for the failure of the Registry of Motor Vehicles to process thousands of out-of-state violations by Massachusetts drivers, […]
Posted inTransportation
Baker feels the love on South Coast
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER, who has been facing heat for his oversight of the MBTA since a Red Line derailment June 11, traveled to the South Coast on Tuesday to bask […]
Posted inEconomy
Mass. businesses paid $180 million by border patrol agency
LAST WEEK’S WALKOUT by workers at Boston-based Wayfair put a spotlight on the issue of businesses contracting to provide goods to detention facilities on the US-Mexican border. But the online retailer’s sale of $200,000 of bedroom furniture to […]
Posted inUncategorized
DeLeo: There will be no budget filed Tuesday
THERE WILL BE no budget agreement filed Tuesday, two days into fiscal 2020, but House and Senate negotiators haven’t reached an impasse and are trading proposals back and forth, according […]
Posted inArts and Culture
For safety’s sake, leave fireworks to the pros
FOR NEARLY EVERYONE in Massachusetts, the Fourth of July conjures up memories of backyard barbecues, summer fun, and toting a folding chair to the best viewing spot they can find […]
Posted inThe Download
Sex education in the land of the Puritans
The Northampton High School student union surveyed students last year, asking them what they thought were the school’s biggest problems. “We got a lot of people saying sex ed,” said […]
Posted inEducation
Sex education in the land of the Puritans
THE NORTHAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL student union surveyed students last year, asking them what they thought were the school’s biggest problems. “We got a lot of people saying sex ed,” said […]
Posted inTransportation
RMV ignored out-of-state violation notices
OFFICIALS LAST WEEK DISCOVERED a giant backlog of paperwork sent to the Registry of Motor Vehicles about infractions committed by Massachusetts drivers in other states that had been sitting untouched […]
Posted inTransportation
Why Red Line commute is taking longer
YOUR RED LINE COMMUTE is taking up to 20 minutes longer these days because a team of roughly 50 MBTA employees is filling in for automatic switches and signals severely […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Kicking the tires on transpo politics
In a wide-ranging discussion about the Bay State’s transportation problems, former congressman Mike Capuano and Kendall Square Association CEO C.A. Webb made their case for new revenue and bold new […]
Posted inPolitics
Wu and other pols seek to organize T riders
BOSTON CITY COUNCILOR Michelle Wu had a captive audience Monday morning as she tried to mobilize a group of people who spend too much time stuck on MBTA platforms and […]