STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY plans to upgrade facilities for travel by ground, sea, and air with added parking and international gates at Logan Airport and a […]
Massport wants to add 5,000 parking spots
Posted inThe Back Story, Transportation
A Beacon Hill switcheroo
In 2013, a bill went into a legislative conference committee on Beacon Hill with a section limiting MBTA fare increases to 5 percent every two years. The section emerged from […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Opinion, Politics
It’s time to act on gun violence
THE REPUBLICANS WHO CONTROL CONGRESS Congress have had all the time in the world to do something about gun violence in America. I mean that. If the GOP spent a […]
Posted inDrug Addiction, The Download
Death moves into the neighborhood
Drug abuse has come out of the shadows. No longer is it just the junkie in the back alley that gets our sympathy but little else for treatment. It’s now in […]
Posted inTransportation
Lots of no-shows at value capture hearing
THE LEGISLATURE’S TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE heard testimony Wednesday on a bill that could help fund the cash-strapped Green Line Extension, but neither the communities that would provide the funding nor the […]
Posted inHealth Care, Opinion
Community health centers have been ahead of the curve
HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS across the country are struggling to adapt to the team-oriented, patient-centered approach to care that makes up the foundation of Affordable Care Act era health care delivery. […]
Posted inTransportation
T passes exempt from fare constraints
THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION is adopting a definition of the word fare that would allow the MBTA to increase the prices of bus and subway passes at any time and by […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
The “logic” of Trump
Donald Trump came to Lowell on Monday, packing the Tsongas Center and once again befuddling those who ask, perfectly legitimately, why so many people are drawn to a candidate who […]
Posted inState House News Service, Transportation
Commuter rail train derails in Andover
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A COMMUTER RAIL TRAIN without any passengers derailed north of the Andover station Tuesday morning, a day after MBTA overseers advanced two options for hiking fares this […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
Why GM is investing in Lyft
Massachusetts lawmakers can’t keep up. They’re still trying to figure out a way to regulate ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft, yet the market is already moving on to […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Baker prepares mid-year budget cuts
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE WITH HIS ANNUAL SPENDING PLAN for the fiscal year that begins in July due to the Legislature in just over three weeks, Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday […]
Posted inEducation, Politics, State House News Service
Charter school expansion ‘uphill climb’
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE SENATE PRESIDENT STANLEY ROSENBERG, who still expects to determine by the end of the month whether a majority in his branch could support an expansion of […]
Posted inTransportation
T to seek comment on 2 fare options
THE MBTA’S OVERSIGHT BOARD voted unanimously on Monday to seek public comment on two proposals that would raise base fares by either 5 or 10 percent while increasing the price […]
Posted inHealth Care, Opinion
Why Republicans hate the Affordable Care Act
THIS WEEK, THE US House of Representatives will take up reconciliation legislation, amended and approved in the US Senate last month, that would drill major, damaging holes in the Affordable […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
A last look at Boston’s 2015 city election
FOR DECADES, AMERICANS who thought they could predict elections have been reminded of the famous photograph of Harry Truman holding up the early-edition headline from the Chicago Tribune in 1948: […]
Posted inState House News Service, Uncategorized
SJC: Corporal punishment excludes foster parents
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE STATE’S HIGHEST COURT on Monday upheld the Department of Children and Families’ 2013 decision to deny the application of potential foster parents because of their […]
Posted inState House News Service, The Download
The Globe’s deliverance
If a tree falls in the forest but it doesn’t get home-delivered, does it still make news? Though the vast majority of people get their news through (not from, just to […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Legislative panel releases opioid abuse bill
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE PATIENTS PRESCRIBED OPIOIDS for the first time would be limited to a seven-day supply and any individual admitted to the emergency room with an apparent drug […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Lawmakers vote to preserve discounts
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE WITH INSURANCE DISCOUNTS AT RISK in the new year, the House and Senate whisked legislation through all of its readings Monday and onto Gov. Charlie Baker’s […]
Posted inGambling
AG: Gaming Commission violated Open Meeting Law
ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURA HEALEY’S OFFICE said the Massachusetts Gaming Commission violated the state’s Open Meeting Law on several occasions by holding private meetings where operation and management of the agency was […]
Posted inEnvironment, Politics
Enviro groups appeal DPU exclusion
SEVERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOLAR GROUPS are appealing a decision by a Department of Public Utilities hearing officer denying them full intervenor status in a rate case filed by National Grid. […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
The MBTA, the gift that keeps on giving
“Unpopular, even painful” are the words that will define the MBTA for the foreseeable future. If nothing else those three words are guaranteed to bump “reform before revenue” off the […]
Posted inGambling, Opinion
Don’t award third casino license
THE MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION (MGC) has already awarded the state’s sole category 2 (slot parlor) license; and, two of the three category 1 (resort-style casino) licenses, with one remaining to […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics, State House News Service
Massachusetts seeing population growth
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE POPULATION OF MASSACHUSETTS is growing at a rate about three times more rapid than surrounding states, a good sign for the state’s economy and its […]