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Pipeline debate gets testy on Twitter
Tim Murray, a Worcester business leader and the former lieutenant governor, got into a testy natural gas policy debate on Twitter over the last few days with a number of pipeline opponents. It started on Tuesday when Murray, […]
Connecting the lobbying dots
THE LEGISLATURE DIDN’T DO a whole lot last year, but the state’s top lobbying firms kept rolling along. ML Strategies, the lobbying arm of the Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky […]
On International Women’s Day, good news and bad
With the White House currently home to a president who bragged about his serial sexual predation and whose lawyer secretly obtained a restraining order last week to silence a porn […]
Time for action on pay equity for women
TODAY, WE OBSERVE International Women’s Day, as women across the globe call for gender equality. Here in Massachusetts, 2018 could be the year we make major strides towards pay equity […]
Another uncontested special election
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE LYNN DEMOCRAT BRENDAN CRIGHTON joined the Senate on Wednesday after cruising uncontested in a special election on Tuesday. Just 2,854 votes made Crighton the newest senator, according […]
We’re not absolutists, we’re realists
AS OUR STATE EXPERIENCED back-to-back 100-year floods, the Boston Globe’s editorial writers were busy this winter honing their case for expansion of natural gas pipeline capacity in New England that […]
Is the Globe entitled to a question?
Early on, young reporters learn one very important lesson: Editors don’t care one whit what you didn’t get and who you didn’t talk to for your story. Because readers don’t […]
9% of region’s power bill incurred in one week
WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY PRICES in New England hit near-record lows in 2017, but they spiked dramatically during the last week in December when temperatures plunged. The operator of the regional power […]
Galvin is annoyed
In heavily Democratic Massachusetts, Secretary of State William Galvin has faced only one challenger from his own party since first taking office nearly 24 years ago. That was in 2006, […]
T notes: Paratransit costs run $16m over budget
THE BOTCHED ROLLOUT of an MBTA initiative to better manage rides for passengers with disabilities will save the T only $1 million this fiscal year rather than the $17 million […]
T’S GM urges no fare hikes in January
THE MBTA’s GENERAL MANAGER recommended on Monday that fares not be increased on January 1, but two members of the T’s oversight board said they weren’t ready to take hikes […]
Galvin to Rivera: ‘I made you mayor’
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE SECRETARY OF STATE William Galvin hasn’t had a primary opponent in over a decade, and it appears that Boston City Councilor Josh Zakim’s challenge this year […]
Episode 87: The great pipeline debate
We heat our homes and light our cities using fuels that come primarily from outside New England, which is part of the reason our prices are among the highest in […]
Medicaid dental coverage is failing the poor
WE ARE LOSING a lot of really good teeth. “We” is our community of lower-income adults and children who depend on a broken Medicaid dental care system that short-changes their […]
The great pipeline debate
We heat our homes and light our cities using fuels that come primarily from outside New England, which is part of the reason our prices are among the highest in […]
We need to end energy inequality
CLEAN ENERGY BELONGS to us all. We’re talking about the wind and the sun, sources of power that have graced us since the dawn of time. We’re talking about power […]
Training citizens, one student at a time
ON FEBRUARY 15 the Legislature took up a bill entitled “An Act to Promote and Enhance Civic Engagement.” The bipartisan legislation, now making its way through the Senate Ways and […]
Berkshire DA says exit aimed at helping top aide win post
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER and Berkshire County District Attorney David Capeless are coming under fire for setting up a behind-the-scenes hand-off of the DA’s post to the office’s first assistant. On […]
Moulton says congressional midterms are key
US REP. SETH MOULTON spoke to the New England Council Friday morning on the importance of the midterm elections, where he stands in the Capuano-Pressley race, legislative redistricting, and his […]
Severe storm effects are the new norm
ONLY TWO MONTHS after surging tides and high winds flooded MBTA stations, knocked out power and sent three feet of water into the streets of Boston, it’s all happening again. […]
Ma$$ Vega$
If the Supreme Court strikes down or alters the federal statute limiting sports wagering to just four states, you can bet the Massachusetts Legislature will take a long hard look at […]
Utility rate design needs reform
Final in a series. The first installment focused on grid modernization in Massachusetts and the second on DPU’s decision on revenue for Eversource. ON JANUARY 5, 2018, the Department of […]
Sports betting could be next gambling frontier
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE WAGERS MIGHT GENERATE between about $9 million and $61 million in state tax revenue if lawmakers decide to make sports betting legal in Massachusetts, the Gaming […]