In a series of tweets and Facebook posts, US Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday pounded away at GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. Borrowing a page from Trump’s rhetorical playbook, Warren […]
Warren’s end game
Posted inHealth Care, State House News Service
Report documents community hospital woes
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE COMMUNITY HOSPITALS IN MASSACHUSETTS face a “self-reinforcing cycle of challenges” that makes their traditional business model unsustainable as more patients choose larger academic medical centers like […]
Posted inState House News Service, Transportation
New Government Center T stop opens
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE OPENING ITS DOORS FOR THE FIRST TIME to the public Monday afternoon, the rebuilt Government Center MBTA station is newly accessible to people in wheelchairs, capping […]
Posted inPolitics
Lawrence city councilor slams Rivera
LAWRENCE CITY COUNCILORÂ Modesto Maldonado came down hard on Mayor Daniel Rivera on Monday for squandering taxpayer dollars on a losing war with the former landlord of the school department headquarters. […]
Posted inThe Codcast
Episode 41: Goldberg wants to keep her sight on pot
State Treasurer Deborah Goldberg says when she talks to counterparts around the country, there is one aspect of her job that stops them in their tracks: Her office’s regulation of […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
Grabauskas lands in familiar territory
In his time in Massachusetts, Dan Grabauskas earned a reputation as a Mr. Fix-It in Republican administrations. He was, at varying times, Registrar of Motor Vehicles, Secretary of Transportation, and […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Technology upends the utility business model
Second in a three-part series. The first part, on natural gas pipelines, can be found here. IN THE SHARING ECONOMY, new consumer technologies and business models are upending industries from […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
St. Pat’s Day brunch mostly ‘love-in’
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE HEATHER HUMPHREYS, the Irish minister for arts, heritage and the Gaeltacht, Â won applause at Sunday morning’s St. Patrick’s Day breakfast when she said the Irish in […]
Posted inEducation, Opinion
Lift the cap on charter public schools
WHEN THE MASSACHUSETTS Board of Elementary and Secondary Education recently approved two new charter schools and the expansion of five others, it wasn’t acting on the basis of any ideological […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Legislature should commit to offshore wind power
THERE’S A CONVERSATION UNDERWAY right now on Beacon Hill that has the potential to unleash the next American energy revolution and create tens of thousands of jobs here in the […]
Posted inThe Download
The Times (and its paragraphs) they are a changin’
The New York Times took heat this week for tinkering with an online story about Bernie Sanders several hours after it was posted, turning a favorable report that the candidate […]
Posted inEducation, Opinion
Time to include social-emotional measures in assessments
BY MANY MEASURES, the Commonwealth is leading the pack when it comes to public education. Massachusetts students score higher on standardized tests than their peers across the nation and high […]
Posted inPolitics
Rosenberg lauds return of bills
(A correction has been added to this story.) SENATE PRESIDENT STANLEY ROSENBERG said on Thursday that he was pleased that a much larger proportion of the chamber’s bills than in […]
Posted inThe Back Story
Spotlight sends out a survey
The Boston Globe Spotlight Team earlier this month sent an email to nearly 200 private, independent schools in New England asking them to fill out an online survey documenting instances […]
Posted inThe Download
Aging judiciously
“The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour…” Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â […]
Posted inState House News Service, Transportation
DOT capital plan earmarks most money to improvements
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE STATE’S TRANSPORTATION department would devote 80 percent of its more than $14.3 billion capital dollars to system improvement and modernization with roughly equal investments in […]
Posted inEconomy, Education, Opinion
Tapping the gold mine of college talent
THIS IS A GOLDEN AGE for the Boston economy. We’re first by a mile in health care. The national leader in biotech. Surging in big data, robotics, fintech, data storage, […]
Posted inHealth Care, Opinion
Trump’s health plan folly
ON MARCH 14, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), a bipartisan federal budget watchdog group, released an economic analysis of the recent health proposals made by Republican presidential […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
For GOP, is it sanity’s last stand?
They called it the second Super Tuesday, and it proved to be very good, if not super, for Hillary Clinton, who won four of five contests, with Missouri still too […]
Posted inEnvironment
Study prices out offshore wind
A UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE STUDY suggests offshore wind off the coast of Massachusetts can yield electricity at much lower prices than previously forecast, but only if policymakers green-light the development […]
Posted inTransportation
T looks to ride-sharing apps to fill gaps
THE MBTA, SLASHING its operating budget after years of bloat, is looking to the emerging ride-sharing industry to fill the gaps caused by service reductions as well as to gobble […]
Posted inGambling
Steve Wynn courts the press in Medford
STEVE WYNN CAME TO MEDFORD on Tuesday. The 74-year-old Las Vegas casino developer is walking with a cane and his already poor eyesight appears to be getting worse, but he […]
Posted inEnvironment
100 reps break ranks on solar
A GROUP OF 100 state representatives broke ranks with House leadership on Tuesday, urging six lawmakers trying to broker a legislative compromise on solar energy to hew more closely to […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Drug Addiction, State House News Service
Deal struck on driver’s licenses for drug offenders
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE GROUP OF lawmakers working since January to reconcile House and Senate versions of a bill to repeal what has been called a remnant of the […]