STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AN ACADEMIC’S IDEAS about what the future might hold inspired Gov. Charlie Baker to invite him to speak to Canadian premiers and New England governors. Speaking […]
MIT dean talks fusion with govs, premiers
Posted inEnvironment
Baker still wants new natural gas pipeline
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER is continuing to push for a new natural gas pipeline into the region, but at a conference on Monday with fellow New England governors and Canadian premiers […]
Posted inEducation, Opinion
Why Question 2 grassroots opposition is growing
I HAVE SPENT much of my adult life supporting local political movements and promoting direct voter contact as the best way to win elections. I like to think I know […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
AIM scorecard tells “tale of two chambers”
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A MAJOR BUSINESS association gave Senate President Stan Rosenberg its lowest score this election cycle, and criticized the Senate’s work in the current legislative session. “While […]
Posted inThe Download
Standing on principle
They throw the ball, hit the ball, kick the ball, bounce the ball, and stop the puck. The fact they do it better than 99.9 percent of the world is […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
Trump’s phony appeal to blacks
REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE Donald Trump is a Machiavellian lout whose overblown xenophobic tendencies have lately inveighed upon race — specifically black Americans. His bullying of black people began recently with […]
Posted inEducation, Politics
Warren as school choice champion
WHEN ASKED ON Thursday about the November ballot question to raise the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts, Sen. Elizabeth Warren sounded a note of caution about the initiative. “You […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Time to turn page on natural gas
AS REPORTED LAST WEEK, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a utility-proposed cost-recovery scheme – the “pipeline tax” that would have helped finance Spectra’s Access Northeast project – violated […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Episode 16: Healey declares success on gun ban
It’s been more than a month since Attorney General Maura Healey announced her crackdown on sales of assault weapons she said are in violation of the 1998 state law barring […]
Posted inThe Download
The Codcast: Healey declares success on gun ban
It’s been more than a month since Attorney General Maura Healey announced her crackdown on sales of assault weapons she said are in violation of the 1998 state law barring […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Sanders group accused of breaking law
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE MASSACHUSETTS FISCAL ALLIANCE, a conservative non-profit that has established itself as a foil to Democratic lawmakers on Beacon Hill, believes the new organization formed by […]
Posted inThe Back Story
‘Encampment’ moved off Boston Common
THE BOSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT last week evicted from the Boston Common a fairly large group of people who had been sleeping and hanging out for many weeks on the grass […]
Posted inPolitics
Bernie’s Bay State army mobilizes
FOR ANYONE WHO THINKS the Bernie-or-Bust movement is dead, think again, at least if you live in Massachusetts. Our Revolution, US Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new initiative to inspire and promote […]
Posted inThe Download
A sorry state of affairs
Since he rose to unforeseen fame when he won “the People’s Seat” long held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, Scott Brown has been as much celebrity as politician, which […]
Posted inGambling, State House News Service
Feds: Reconsider Mashpee Wampanoag ruling
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION on Wednesday sought reconsideration of a federal court ruling that would strip the Mashpee Wampanoag of its tribal land in southeastern Massachusetts, according […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Gas pipeline firm says it’s full-speed ahead
What follows is a letter from the three top officials of Access Northeast to New England policymakers on the need for new natural gas pipeline infrastructure in the region. […]
Posted inThe Download
Fear and loathing at Smith
Is racism infecting the operations of the graduate social work program at Smith College, or has the leafy campus in left-leaning Northampton become the latest flash point for overblown charges […]
Posted inPolitics
Milton board backs Joyce
THE THREE MEMBERS of the Milton Board of Assessors said on Tuesday that they will review and probably reassess state Sen. Brian Joyce’s home, but they indicated the lawmaker had […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
No transforming option for president
IN JANUARY 2015, the two of us took pen in hand and collaborated on an article for CommonWealth titled “Looking for the Man or Woman on a Horse: Can the 2016 presidential […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion
Healey’s assault weapon directive on target
ONE OF THE main rallying cries of the NRA and the gun lobby is that we don’t need any new gun laws to reduce gun violence. The gun lobbyists assert […]
Posted inThe Download
Paying teachers who don’t teach
The Boston Public Schools will be spending an estimated $8 million this year paying teachers who won’t be teaching. Is that a colossal waste of money, or simply a cost […]
Posted inPolitics
Questions raised over Globe’s Joyce story
MILTON TOWN RECORDS and interviews with local officials are calling into question the accuracy of a Boston Globe story suggesting embattled state Sen. Brian Joyce shortchanged the municipality on property […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Senate chamber to undergo renovations
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AFTER THE NEW LEGISLATIVE TERM begins in January, the state Senate plans to abandon its historic chamber and begin meeting in two temporary workspaces elsewhere in […]
Posted inTransportation
Get Mass. transponder or face higher Turnpike charges
This story was updated at 5:30 p.m. At 3 p.m., because of incorrect information supplied by state officials, it was corrected to say that drivers without transponders will be charged […]