The Bay State’s sick leave law, passed by a crushing margin in November, inspired politicians around the country. In his State of the Union address, President Obama called on Congress […]
Rodrigues, AIM already sick of sick leave law
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
Natural gas is a bridge
WHEN VERMONT YANKEE stopped producing electricity for the grid last month, it achieved a major policy goal for advocates of deactivation but it also removed a major clean energy source […]
Posted inHealth Care, Politics, The Download
Healey vs. Coakley
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders now has two attorney general opinions in front of her on the proposed acquisition of South Shore Hospital by Partners HealthCare. One, from former […]
Posted inHealth Care, Politics
Healey opposes Partners deal
ATTORNEY GENERAL MAURA HEALEY told a Superior Court judge on Monday that she has serious concerns with her predecessor’s deal to let Partners Healthcare take over three smaller hospitals and […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
A new Speaker-for-life?
If there is one man who is happy about the blizzard that will white-out coverage of almost any other news for the next few days it may be Bob DeLeo. […]
Posted inOlympics, State House News Service
Falchuk spearheads statewide Olympics referendum
EVAN FALCHUK, WHO waged a spirited run last year as an independent candidate for governor, is back in campaign mode, hoping to drive a statewide ballot question that would forbid […]
Posted inOlympics
Olympics numbers don’t add up
BOSTON MAYOR MARTY WALSH and representatives of Boston 2024 have made claims about levels of public support for the idea of a Boston Olympics that are not supported by the […]
Posted inThe Download
Braude shakes it up
Jim Braude shook up the local news business this week by announcing he is jumping from his Broadside TV show at New England Cable News to Greater Boston at WGBH. […]
Posted inThe Back Story
No good deed goes unpunished
Good deeds, they say, are their own rewards and a Dorchester charter school teacher may soon have to settle for that. Nicole Bollerman, a third-grade teacher at UP Academy Dorchester, […]
Posted inGambling
A bit of Vegas in Everett
NEARLY FOUR MONTHS after the Massachusetts Gaming Commission awarded a casino license to Wynn Resorts, the commissioners on Thursday finally got a look at the final design for the exterior […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
A hole in the state’s recovery narrative
The state added more than 60,000 jobs to the workforce in 2014, the strongest growth in nearly 15 years, pushing year-end unemployment down to 5.5 percent. Tax revenues are flowing in […]
Posted inPolitics
Rosenberg unveils leadership team
SENATE PRESIDENT STAN Rosenberg announced his leadership team and committee chairmanships today, putting women senators in two of the chamber’s most powerful posts. Sen. Harriette Chandler will serve as majority […]
Posted inEconomy
A vision for a Boston Olympics
BOSTON’S OLYMPIC BOOSTERS on Wednesday performed a rerun for the media of their winning US Olympic Committee presentation, emphasizing the close proximity of venues inside the capital city and the […]
Posted inHealth Care
The Affordable Care Act is working
IN LATE NOVEMBER, Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, publicly opined that Democrats blew it in 2009 by pursuing passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) instead of maintaining […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Politics, State House News Service
Baker taps Worcester prosecutor as public safety secretary
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE GOV. CHARLIE BAKER on Wednesday called his pick for state public safety chief a “proven manager” as top House lawmakers welcomed the choice of a Worcester […]
Posted inGambling
Mohegan Sun sues Gaming Commission
MOHEGAN SUN ON Wednesday joined the city of Revere in suing the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, alleging a host of irregularities with the agency’s choice of Wynn Resorts as the eastern […]
Posted inState House News Service, The Download
Walsh’s Boston Olympics hot potato
What a difference a day makes. In 24 little hours, the prospects for a Boston Olympics have gone from full steam ahead to dubious if put to a vote. Boston […]
Posted inHealth Care
AG fines South Shore Hospital group $1.8m
A South Shore Hospital physicians group agreed to pay $1.8 million in state and federal fines to settle charges that it inflated patient bills and paid kickbacks to doctors in exchange for referrals to […]
Posted inPolitics
DeLeo legal bills total $200,000
More than a third of House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s $537,000 in campaign expenditures last year went to the law firm of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo for legal […]
Posted inPolitics
Baker pegs deficit at $765m
GOV. CHARLIE BAKER said the state is facing a $765 million deficit this fiscal year, a shortfall more than twice as large as his predecessor estimated and attempted to address […]
Posted inEnvironment, Opinion
New gas pipelines can be avoided
LAST WINTER’S NATURAL gas price spikes, and resultant electric rate hikes, continue to be used to justify the push for massive expansion of gas infrastructure. Yet a successful program to […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
Looking for the man or woman on a horse
A RECENT BOOK by Aaron David Miller argues that the United States should be satisfied with the great presidents we have already had – George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin […]
Posted inThe Download
Olympics fact vs. fiction
Thank goodness Boston 2024 is going to start releasing details of its bid for the 2024 Olympics this week because reporters are starting to fill in the blanks on their […]
Posted inEnvironment, Politics
Haddad files energy bill
A TOP MEMBER of House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s leadership team filed legislation on Friday that calls for expanding the region’s natural gas pipeline capacity, importing more hydroelectricity from Canada, and […]