STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE FORMER GOV. DEVAL PATRICK will be compensated $7,500 per day when he travels on behalf of the backers of a bid to bring the 2024 Summer […]
Patrick’s Olympic pay: $7,500 per day
Posted inEnvironment, State House News Service
Baker backs Patrick’s solar goal
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION is committed to the installation of at least 1,600 megawatts of solar energy in Massachusetts by 2020, the governor’s energy chief said Monday. […]
Posted inEducation, The Download
Charter battle heads to court
The debate over charter schools, which has been waged largely in the political arena, looks like it’s heading to court. The Globe reported on Sunday that three top Boston lawyers […]
Posted inEducation, Opinion
Madeloni critical of Sagan appointment
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER’S highly political appointment of Paul Sagan as the chair of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education underscores educators’ concerns about the Baker administration’s public education agenda. […]
Posted inOpinion, Transportation
A Jeffersonian take on the Internet and T
THE IDEA OF American democracy has its roots in the Declaration of Independence’s affirmation that people are entitled to the benefits of certain unalienable rights – rights that are so […]
Posted inEducation, Politics
Marty’s man
HE HAS SAID it is the most important hire he will make as mayor, and that was certainly not lost on Marty Walsh as he wrestled with which of the […]
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Fired Elder Affairs worker sues state
A FORMER LONG-TIME compliance worker at the state Executive Office of Elder Affairs is suing the agency, alleging it violated his First Amendment rights and the state Whistleblower Act by […]
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Globe flip flops on film tax credit
The Boston Globe editorial page executed a Romneyesque flip-flop on the state’s film tax credit this week. Five years ago, the Globe published a rousing editorial opposing a bid by […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
House paid Boston law firm $262,000
THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE paid $262,000 to a Boston law firm in 2013 and 2014 for work on ethics investigations. House officials are declining further comment on how the money was […]
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Curt Schilling hits cyber-bullies with some chin music
Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling can do no wrong in some folks’ eyes around here for his performance in the team’s 2004 World Series win that fulfilled a generations-old […]
Posted inEconomy, Education, Opinion, Politics
MTA chief calls Baker budget troubling
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER’S proposed budget is troubling for its lack of vision and absence of meaningful investments in education and other vital community services. Although some of the governor’s ideas […]
Posted inOlympics
Olympics once-in-a-century opportunity
Remarks prepared for delivery to the Boston Municipal Research Bureau. As I said last month, this isn’t Loon Mountain, it’s the city of Boston. But with 100 inches of snow […]
Posted inEconomy, Opinion, Politics
Baker misses budget opportunity
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER missed an opportunity on Wednesday to play the role of an educator and explain how and why he is trying to rein in state spending. His press […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
The MBTA’s rebate hot potato
A rebate program for the MBTA’s winter nonperformance snafus might make commuters happy, but does it make fiscal sense for a functionally insolvent agency to hand back money? Jonathan Davis, […]
Posted inGambling, Transportation
Wynn pays MBTA $6m for land
THE MBTA IS $6 million richer after selling a 1.75-acre parcel of land to Wynn Resorts for the preferred entrance to its planned $1.7 billion casino-hotel complex in Everett. The […]
Posted inOpinion, Transportation
What a ‘soft receivership’ for T would mean
LAST WEEK PIONEER Institute called for the MBTA to be placed in “soft receivership.” The purposes of this policy brief are to consider Massachusetts’ experience with two recent receiverships, and to […]
Posted inState House News Service, Transportation
Baker proposes T funding hike
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE STATE TAXPAYERS WILL further subsidize the struggling MBTA under Gov. Charlie Baker’s budget proposal, which calls for a $64.5 million increase in funding for the agency, […]
Posted inEconomy, The Download
Baker’s movie play
Gov. Charlie Baker is demonstrating that he can roll out a budget very skillfully. Using the Boston Globe as his message delivery system, the governor this week has unveiled a […]
Posted inEconomy
Baker pushes family homelessness program
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER says he plans to make a big dent in the number of homeless Massachusetts families by taking $20 million now being used for shelter and hotel-motel stays […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
Boston’s African American leaders
PHOTOJOURNALIST DON WEST teamed up with former Boston Globe national editor Ken Cooper on Portraits of Purpose: A Tribute to Leadership to document the careers of Boston-area African American leaders […]
Posted inEducation, The Download
Marty’s moment of reckoning
When all the snow has melted and the debates are done about space-saver policies and how well — or poorly — the city did at digging out from under it […]
Posted inEnvironment
Cape Wind developer not giving up
CAPE WIND DEVELOPER Jim Gordon spoke at a rally on behalf of Cape Wind on Saturday and insisted his 14-year quest for a wind farm in Nantucket Sound is not […]
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Globe cuts political losses
The print version of the Boston Globe cut its political losses today, abandoning its stand-alone Friday Capital section and tucking the slimmed-down remains into the back of Metro. For those […]
Posted inPolitics, The Back Story
The price of leadership
CORRECTION: Several corrections were made to the original version of this story, all of them dealing with the pay of leadership positions in the House. Specifically, Rep. Jonathan Hecht’s leadership […]