Did you hear? Legal marijuana for adult recreational use is coming to Massachusetts. It may be soon, it may be later, but make no mistake, it’s on its way. Scott […]
Episode 28: Not your fathers weed
Posted inThe Download
Not your father’s weed
Did you hear? Legal marijuana for adult recreational use is coming to Massachusetts. It may be soon, it may be later, but make no mistake, it’s on its way. But […]
Posted inPolitics
DeLeo, Rosenberg agree to a set of rules
HOUSE SPEAKER ROBERT DELEO and Senate President Stanley Rosenberg on Wednesday announced they had bridged their differences and found common ground on rules for running the Legislature, an issue that […]
Posted inHealth Care, Opinion
Trump poised to dump Affordable Care Act
PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP has nominated Rep. Tom Price of George, an orthopedic surgeon and the House Budget Committee chairman, to be his first secretary of health and human services. For […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
The price of sanctuary
Massachusetts is walking on eggshells now that Donald Trump is poised to move into public housing in Washington and nowhere is that trepidation felt more than in the so-called “sanctuary […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics
Hedge fund could lose millions for campaign violation
A $500 CAMPAIGN donation to a family friend running for Massachusetts governor could potentially cost a New York hedge fund millions of dollars in its management fees of investments from […]
Posted inOpinion, Transportation
Glass ceilings don’t always remain shattered
MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, what we take for granted was not always so. In a time when it seems unremarkable that a woman is leading the Commonwealth’s Department of Transportation, […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
Boston’s presidential election numbers
NATIONWIDE, THE STORY over the past couple of weeks has been how Donald Trump outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Back here in Boston the converse was true: […]
Posted inEconomy, Opinion, Politics
Fighting for a $15 minimum wage
IN 2014, a coalition of community, faith, and labor organizations called Raise Up Massachusetts led the campaign to raise the state’s minimum wage, which was then just $8 an hour. […]
Posted inThe Download
Kellyanne Conway is right
Many would view Mitt Romney’s selection as secretary of state as a betrayal. Sure, bringing the former GOP presidential nominee and Massachusetts governor into the Trump cabinet could be a […]
Posted inState House News Service, Transportation
T preparing to privatize call center
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE MBTA PLANS to go out to the market for private bidders to run its call center operations, which will likely be privatized, according to a […]
Posted inTransportation
Baker aide attends T board executive session
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER’S chief of staff attended a private, executive session of the MBTA’s oversight board on Monday, stirring speculation that a candidate for the T’s general manager’s post was […]
Posted inEconomy
Banking on the pot industry
AT LEAST ONE Massachusetts bank is offering services to the nascent legal marijuana industry in the state despite uncertainty over federal drug and banking regulations that still classify all pot […]
Posted inThe Download
The sorest winner
Another day, another circus act from the ringmaster who will soon be the leader of the free world. The latest mystifying feat under the big top? A Donald Trump tweet […]
Posted inOpinion, Transportation
Zipcar founder Robin Chase on upending the status quo
This article is part of a series entitled The Future of Mobility, a joint project of CommonWealth and Meeting of the Minds, a San Francisco-based organization that seeks to build alliances around […]
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What’s happening at Plainridge?
For a long time, we’ve been hearing that the Plainridge Park Casino was a monumental slacker. The Plainville facility opened in June last year amid projections that it could bring […]
Posted inEducation
Teachers union president decries Trump and testing
BARBARA MADELONI, the president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, had a message last week for her union’s members in the wake of the presidential election: “let all of our students […]
Posted inGambling, State House News Service
Plainridge says it’s doing very well
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE ONA PER-MACHINE BASIS, the slots parlor at Plainridge Park in Plainville has the highest revenue of any similar gaming facility in the country, the parlor’s general […]
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Power of the badge
The tensions between police and those they are charged with protecting continue to rise and it seems every encounter between those in blue uniforms and those in black skin has the […]
Posted inTransportation
S. Coast Rail oversight shifted from T to state
MASSACHUSETTS OFFICIALS on Monday shifted oversight of the South Coast Rail commuter rail project from the MBTA to the state Transportation Department and said they are now analyzing two route […]
Posted inPolitics
Leaders declare Mass. ‘no place for hate’
POLITICAL AND COMMUNITY leaders stood on the steps of the Massachusetts State House to speak out against acts of bigotry and violence that they say have surged in the wake […]
Posted inGambling
Audit: Plainridge Casino falls short in hiring goals
A NEW AUDIT says the Massachusetts Gaming Commission dropped the ball in its mandate to ensure that Plainridge Park Casino met its agreed-upon local hiring goals and that the state’s […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
Taking on the gun lobby
IN TRYING TO understand the power of today’s gun lobby, I’ve found myself looking for answers in earlier issues in US history. More than 100 years ago, the Anti-Saloon League was successful in ushering […]
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Healey and Baker one-on-one?
They’ve enjoyed some friendly competition harkening to earlier days, two former Harvard hoopsters playfully trying out old moves. But could Charlie Baker and Maura Healey be heading toward a showdown […]