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 […]
Is it time to talk about gun violence?
Posted inOpinion
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 […]
Posted inOpinion
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 […]
Posted inThe Download
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 […]
Posted inThe Download
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 […]
Posted inPolitics
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 […]
Posted inTransportation
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 […]
Posted inTransportation
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 […]
Posted inThe Codcast
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 […]
Posted inThe Download
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 […]
Posted inOpinion
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 […]
Posted inOpinion
We cannot test and punish our way to better schools
THE CLOSER THEY ARE to actual public-school classrooms, the more Massachusetts residents understand it’s time to abandon the failed test-and-punish approach to school improvement. For two decades, we’ve seen how […]
Posted inOpinion
Standing up for undocumented students
OVER 8,000 young people in Massachusetts — and 800,000 nationally — now face an uncertain future as a result of the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for […]
Posted inPolitics
US Atty: Joyce ran office as ‘criminal enterprise’
FORMER STATE SEN. BRIAN JOYCE was arrested Friday and indicted for engaging in multiple influence-peddling schemes which netted him up to $1 million in fees that he went to elaborate […]
Posted inThe Download
DCF deja vu
It is the story that seems to play on a endless repeat loop, with battered and neglected children at the center of it. State Auditor Suzanne Bump released a scathing […]
Posted inThe Back Story
MBTA parking contract said to be in disarray
THE MBTA’s DIRECTOR OF PARKING resigned last week after distributing a 30-page statement detailing how the agency’s parking contractor is not living up to the terms of its contract and […]
Posted inThe Download
On sexual assault, a partisan divide
It is widely anticipated that Minnesota Sen. Al Franken will announce his resignation today, as the number of cases of alleged sexual misconduct against him grows. If the one-time Saturday […]
Posted inEnvironment
Baker tries to kickstart energy storage business
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION on Thursday handed out $20 million in energy storage grants, an attempt to kickstart an industry that holds promise in reducing peak electricity demand and increasing the […]
Posted inTransportation
Transportation equity key to unlocking state’s potential
“IF YOU BUILD IT, they will come.” It’s an appropriate quote for iconic baseball movies, and for a state focused on economic development. Here in Massachusetts, the chatter has been […]
Posted inTransportation
Barr funds 3 bus rapid transit pilots
THE BARR FOUNDATION awarded three $100,000 grants for pilot bus rapid transit projects scheduled to run next year in Arlington, Everett, and Cambridge and Watertown. In Arlington, the MBTA and […]
Posted inTransportation
Railing against transportation madness
I’M WONDERING WHETHER A TYPE OF MADNESS has infected our thinking in Greater Boston. Someone writes in the Boston Globe about how great it will be when autonomous vehicles replace […]
Posted inEnvironment
Maine utility: Our hydro project has lowest cost
IN THE PUBLIC JOCKEYING for a multibillion-dollar clean energy contract with Massachusetts, Central Maine Power on Wednesday said its project would deliver the largest amount of hydroelectricity from Quebec at […]
Posted inThe Download
‘They that go down to the sea in ships’
For centuries, New England fishermen have provided much of the seafood for the world’s dinner tables. In 1623, the nation’s first fishing port was started in Gloucester, which became synonymous […]
