CHANCES ARE WE’LL be seeing more and more of Phil Satre in Boston. The new, 69-year-old chairman of the board at Wynn Resorts is expected to take a lead role […]
New Wynn board chair makes his case
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Listen to New Bedford families, not special interests
SINCE THE 2016 BALLOT campaign around charter schools, we’ve seen victory lap after victory lap from the regressive anti-innovation crowd in education, but zero solutions presented to address the real […]
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New voices emerge from 2018 races
LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY, the midterm elections were great for Democrats and our core values. Progressive leaders helped win back the US House, gained seats in the state Legislature, and held […]
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Mass. has hospital readmissions problem
THERE IS A great deal to celebrate in Massachusetts following the Health Policy Commission’s recent Cost Trends Hearing. The Commonwealth’s healthcare spending growth was well below the national average in […]
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Since I came to CommonWealth nearly 10 years ago after a couple decades in the newspaper industry, I tell people there is not all that much difference. “I went from […]
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Since I came to CommonWealth nearly 10 years ago after a couple decades in the newspaper industry, I tell people there is not all that much difference. “I went from […]
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Elugardo says House needs structural change
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE WHEN NIKA ELUGARDO was young, her “little middle school protest” was to leave the Pledge of Allegiance incomplete when reciting it in class, dropping the phrase […]
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Swampscott agreement deals with gender fluidity
When Swampscott elementary school principal Thomas Shannon Daniels first came out as transgender in February, he indicated his gender was fluid. “For me, that means I identify as both a […]
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Healey sets conditions on BI-Lahey merger
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ALTHOUGH REGULATORS PLAN to keep a watchful eye, the path was cleared Thursday at the state and federal levels for a mega-merger that would create the […]
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Glynn to lead Harvard’s Allston venture
Tom Glynn, who just left his job as CEO of Massport, is moving over to Harvard University on Monday to run a subsidiary that will oversee the planning and development […]
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Episode 126: Pushed out of Roxbury
Some people may have been taken aback by the overflow crowd of 350 people who showed up earlier this month for a Boston City Council hearing in Roxbury to hear […]
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Grid, locked-out workers appear far apart
NATIONAL GRID AND THE UNIONS representing 1,250 locked-out steelworkers head back to the bargaining table on Thursday, but it doesn’t appear as if the two sides are close to an […]
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BPD commish shows his blue colors
WILLIE GROSS’S weekend Facebook post may have received lots of “likes” from law enforcement compatriots, but it stirred a lot of unnecessary ill will in a city that has been […]
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BPD commish shows his blue colors
Willie Gross’s weekend Facebook post may have received lots of “likes” from law enforcement compatriots, but it stirred a lot of unnecessary ill will in a city that has been […]
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Region’s electricity market in trouble
GORDON VAN WELIE is sitting in a conference room in Holyoke. Behind him is a bank of windows that look down on a control room with a massive screen showing […]
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Change-agent Pressley backs Pelosi
It turns out change can wait. Ayanna Pressley, whose campaign theme was “change can’t wait,” announced that she will be supporting Nancy Pelosi’s continued leadership of the Democrats as they […]
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Change-agent Pressley backs Pelosi
It turns out change can wait. Ayanna Pressley, whose campaign theme was “change can’t wait,” announced that she will be supporting Nancy Pelosi’s continued leadership of the Democrats as they […]
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Rivera: Columbia Gas should be disbanded
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Federal lawmakers who gathered in Lawrence Monday called for top executives at Columbia Gas and its parent company to leave their jobs in the wake of […]
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T notes: Ridership, even at peak times on Red Line, continues to decline
MBTA RIDERSHIP is continuing to decline, even on the Red Line at peak travel times. T officials for a couple years have been trying to understand why ridership is trending […]
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MBTA pension costs rising at fast pace
THE MBTA OVERSIGHT BOARD raised concerns that pension costs at the transit agency are spiraling out of control, and called on unions and management to come to some accord to […]
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Pushed out of Roxbury
SOME PEOPLE MAY have been taken aback by the overflow crowd of 350 people who showed up earlier this month for a Boston City Council hearing in Roxbury to hear […]
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The Codcast: Pushed out of Roxbury
Some people may have been taken aback by the overflow crowd of 350 people who showed up earlier this month for a Boston City Council hearing in Roxbury to hear […]
Posted inOpinion
Municipal input needed on next T oversight board
THE COMING NEW YEAR will present significant opportunities to advance the cause of sustainable mobility in Massachusetts. It’s not too early to begin to focus on seven specific areas that […]
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Boston, too, needs to do more on climate change
CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL and it is here. In Boston, the impacts of climate change are already tangible. In January of this year a massive nor’easter brought a devastating storm […]