STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A TEAM OF LAWYERS, including a former federal prosecutor who helped put one-time House Speaker Sal DiMasi in prison for public corruption, has been retained by […]
Lawyers hired to investigate Rosenberg
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T notes: Bus lanes do save time
MBTA OFFICIALS ON MONDAY said initial results from two experiments in Boston and Somerville showed dedicated bus lanes could dramatically cut route times. Jeffrey Gonneville, the T’s deputy general manager, […]
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More hurdles for bus maintenance outsourcing
THE MBTA’S POLITICALLY CONTROVERSIAL PLAN to outsource three bus maintenance garages encountered more obstacles on Monday as the agency grappled with negative fallout from two past privatization efforts and learned […]
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Worcester Line performance improves dramatically
T OFFICIALS SAY A NEW APPROACH to dealing with commuter rail delays improved performance dramatically on the Worcester Line, which in November had its best month in terms of on-time […]
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Sources: Beacon Hill encounters cost Globe reporter his job
A PROMINENT BOSTON GLOBE State House reporter, who was the subject of an internal sexual harassment complaint, was forced out last month after reporters and editors at the paper learned […]
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Episode 78: The case for West Station now
In this week’s Codcast, the folks from TransitMatters (Josh Fairchild and James Aloisi) sit down with Jessica Robertson and Ari Ofsevit, two members of the Allston Interchange Task Force (Ofsevit […]
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The Codcast: The case for West Station now
The fight over the proposed West Station in Allston is shaping up as an epic transportation struggle. Harvard University is planning to build a new neighborhood in Allston and the […]
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Testing isn’t punishment, it’s a matter of social justice
LAST YEAR WHILE CASUALLY asking my son about taking his first MCAS exam as a third grader, he responded with an adverse physical reaction at the mere mention of the […]
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School start times zero sum game
One day after the Boston School Committee voted unanimously to change school start times next fall so teenaged students could get a little extra sleep, Boston Magazine published a story […]
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Electric vehicle charging gets a jump
MASSACHUSETTS TOOK A MAJOR STEP toward its goal of 300,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2025 when the Department of Public Utilities last week approved the nation’s largest electric […]
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S. Coast lawmakers push offshore wind project
The following is a letter sent to Matthew Beaton, the secretary of energy and environmental affairs, on December 12 by Rep. Patricia Haddad of Somerset and cosigned by Sen. Michael […]
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Mitchell Chester set bar high for next ed commissioner
AS THE Board of Elementary and Secondary Education embarks on its search for a new commissioner following the death in June of Mitchell Chester, I’ve been reflecting on how Commissioner […]
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Checking in on T control board at halfway point
THE MBTA’s FISCAL AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL BOARD is halfway through its five-year term, which seems like a good time to review its progress so far. The law creating the control board said […]
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Is it time to talk about gun violence?
When Adam Lanza, an anti-social misanthrope who shot and killed his mother in Newtown, Connecticut, and then took her gun arsenal and slaughtered 20 six- and seven-year-olds and a half-dozen […]
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Mass. should import wind power from Canada
RIGHT NOW, New England’s energy future sits at a crossroads. The New England states have made some of the most ambitious clean energy and carbon emission reduction goals in the […]
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Hydro-Quebec power is not what we want
OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, the Baker Administration will be making billion-dollar decisions about the kind of energy that will be powering our homes, businesses, and municipalities for decades to […]
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No Moore
Even for deepest red Alabama, it proved to be a molestation bridge too far. If Roy Moore couldn’t be trusted at the local mall, voters concluded, the US Senate might […]
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Bridgewater saga ends with surprise
Nearly four years ago, the Boston Globe described the 2009 death of Joshua Messier at Bridgewater State Hospital in horrific detail. Messier, according to surveillance video, was on a bed […]
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Baker said he backs the Dem in Alabama
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV. CHARLIE BAKER said he supports the Democrat running for US Senate in Alabama against Roy Moore, the controversial Republican who has been dogged by multiple […]
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T notes: Agency cuts bus maintenance costs on its own
MBTA OFFICIALS, who have been considering privatization of three bus maintenance garages to cut costs, say they reduced spending on bus repairs by 16 percent over a four-month period through […]
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Pollack defends 2040 date for West Station
AMID STRONG PUSHBACK from neighborhood activists and others, Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack on Monday defended the Baker administration’s decision to put off until at least 2040 the construction of a […]
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Episode 77: Rosenberg’s fall
Globe op-ed columnist Joan Vennochi, who joined Everhart on the Codcast, said it may not matter whether Hefner actually wielded any influence on Senate matters. “If the accuser thought that […]
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The Codcast: Rosenberg’s fall
THE NATIONAL RECKONING over sexual harassment has taken down former Senate president Stan Rosenberg — but there are no allegations of misconduct by the veteran Amherst Democrat. Instead, in what […]
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Lessons to be learned from Green Line Ext.
THE CONTRACTOR BIDS on the Green Line Extension have come in below the upside limit established by the MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board, including the restoration of several key […]