STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AS CHINESE GOVERNMENT RESTRICTIONS on the import of recycled paper and plastics drive up recycling processing costs in America, a new state effort is attempting to […]
State commits $2.6m for how-to-recycle initiative
Posted inEconomy
Triple-A duel: Zimbalist vs. Matheson
ANDREW ZIMBALIST HAS made a name for himself as a leading critic of public spending on private sports enterprises. The Smith College economist has long been one of the most […]
Posted inPolitics
All the president’s mess
IT’S ABSURD to think a president could ever be impeached for lying about sex. Or so was the prevailing wisdom until it happened in 1998 to Bill Clinton. Twenty years […]
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All the president’s mess
It’s absurd to think a president could ever be impeached for lying about sex. Or so was the prevailing wisdom until it happened in 1998 to Bill Clinton. Twenty years […]
Posted inTransportation
Accounting maneuvers, one-time gains helped balance T budget
WITH GOV. CHARLIE BAKER running for reelection, the MBTA balanced its budget for the first time in a decade by using a series of accounting maneuvers and one-time revenue gains. […]
Posted inCriminal Justice
Baker: Dangerousness hearings a priority
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE EXPECTED TO TALK about cancer research and philanthropy, Gov. Charlie Baker instead found himself Tuesday morning trying to earn support from a sports talk radio show […]
Posted inTransportation
Keolis hit with $8.2m in fines in FY18
THE MBTA ASSESSED record-level fines on its commuter rail operator in fiscal 2018, but Keolis Commuter Services said the penalties are not as severe as they appear because the company […]
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Pizzuti Henry takes charge at the Globe
NOW WE KNOW what a managing director does at the Boston Globe: She runs the place. After a long period in which Linda Pizzuti Henry took on more and more responsibility […]
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Pizzuti Henry takes charge at the Globe
Now we know what a managing director does at the Boston Globe: She runs the place. After a long period in which Linda Pizzuti Henry took on more and more responsibility […]
Posted inEconomy
Club to pay $36m toward $86m stadium
THE CITY OF WORCESTER is building a new $86 million stadium for the Boston Red Sox Triple-A affiliate and charging the team roughly $36 million – two separate $3 million […]
Posted inPolitics
DeLeo-controlled PAC helps incumbent Dems
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE IN A SIGN OF WHICH House primary races may be worth watching over the next two weeks, the political action committee controlled by House Speaker Robert […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Episode 111: Charter battle heats up in New Bedford
Mayor Jon Mitchell has come out strongly against the expansion proposals, arguing they would be devastating to city finances and the state of its district schools. The head of the […]
Posted inEducation
Charter battle heats up in New Bedford
THINK THE BATTLE over charter schools in Massachusetts is over? Think again. Voters may have soundly defeated a ballot question two years ago to raise the cap on charters, but […]
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The Codcast: Charter battle heats up in New Bedford
Think the battle over charter schools in Massachusetts is over? Think again. Voters may have soundly defeated a ballot question two years ago to raise the cap on charters, but […]
Posted inOpinion
Quebec hydro isn’t a good fit for Mass.
MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES submitted long-term hydro electricity supply contracts to the Department of Public Utilities for review recently. The Massachusetts Sierra Club believes strongly that these contracts are not […]
Posted inEconomy
Worcester lands the PawSox
IN A COUP THAT WAS three years in the making, Worcester officials were able to woo the owners of the AAA Pawtucket Red Sox to move the team into a […]
Posted inOpinion
Cities can clean up the transportation sector
TRANSPORTATION IS THE largest source of carbon pollution in the Commonwealth, producing 40 percent of climate-disrupting greenhouse gas emissions. Cities and towns can play an important role in leading the […]
Posted inEconomy
Get ready to cheer for the Woosox
WORCESTER, a Gateway City on its way up, appears poised to spend some of its hard-won capital to land the Red Sox triple-A affiliate, which will be nicknamed the Woosox. […]
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Get ready to cheer for the Woosox
Worcester, a Gateway City on its way up, appears poised to spend some of its hard-won capital to land the Red Sox triple-A affiliate, which will be nicknamed the Woosox. […]
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NE Power Pool seeks to ban press
THE NEW ENGLAND POWER POOL, an organization that helps develop policies and procedures governing the region’s wholesale electricity markets, is seeking federal regulatory approval to bar reporters from its meetings. […]
Posted inThe Back Story
Anatomy of a smear
SECRETARY OF STATE William Galvin has not survived 43 years in the rough and tumble arena of Massachusetts politics by being meek. So when there’s a threat to his fiefdom, […]
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Full-court press against Trump’s media attacks
ONE OF THE best-known lines concerning the job of the press in the Trump era, where a US president with little regard for the First Amendment to the Constitution he […]
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Full-court press against Trump’s media attacks
One of the best-known lines concerning the job of the press in the Trump era, where a US president with little regard for the First Amendment to the Constitution he […]
Posted inOpinion
Enviro group: Hydro contract bad for Maine, Mass.
Below is an edited version of testimony delivered by to the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities on contracts to purchase hydro-electricity from Hydro-Quebec via a transmission line being built by […]