Nuclear power plants are a lot like baseball umpires: It’s far better for everyone when you don’t hear their names. But the Pilgrim power plant in Plymouth is receiving a […]
Pilgrim relicensing reaches critical mass
Posted inEconomy, Environment, State House News Service
Creem proposal would ban bottled water
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Sen. Cynthia Creem thinks she has a solution to the long-stalled effort on Beacon Hill to expand the state’s bottle redemption law to include water: just ban […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
Deval Patrick to Cory Booker: I got this
Who ya gonna call when the young’uns can’t get the job done? Gov. Deval Patrick. Newark Mayor Cory Booker, he of the political twitterati and recent fun-filled “I got this” […]
Posted inTransportation
Hurdles face ferry transfer plan
In addition to a cool reaction from a top Patrick administration official, a key aspect of the House’s plan to rescue the MBTA from its fiscal crisis is getting a […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
Taking on Boston’s fun police (and the mayor)
Skim over most of today’s Herald story on the launch of the Future Boston Alliance, a new non-profit geared toward loosening the city’s regulations and making Boston a more lively, […]
Posted inEnvironment, The Download
Mass. energy innovation is heard loud and clear
Massachusetts is living up to its reputation as a center of clean energy innovation and entrepreneurship, but it’s also showing that in the zeal to go green there’s a danger […]
Posted inEconomy, The Back Story
Convention center chess
The House rolled out a major economic development package this week, but one key proposal that has been kicking around Beacon Hill for two-and-a-half years was noticeably absent – the […]
Posted inEconomy, State House News Service, The Download
The Big Lug is in trouble
It’s the ninth inning, bases loaded, no outs, and the Big Lug (aka Curt Schilling) is on the mound, trying to keep the dreams of his video game company alive. […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics, State House News Service
House bill eases grocery price tag law
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Grocery stores in Massachusetts would no longer be required to put price tags on each item and could instead deploy price scanners for consumers to use, […]
Posted inThe Download, Uncategorized
FNX signing off
No, wise guy, WFNX has not already been off the air for a couple years. But the alternative rock icon will be signing off after Phoenix publisher Stephen Mindich sold […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
DeLeo pokes Mark Zuckerberg
The following is an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from Speaker Robert DeLeo, originally published at Menlo Park Patch. I wanted to take this opportunity to update you […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download, Transportation
How Rahm Emanuel could save the Sagamore Bridge
The Sagamore flyover, Mitt Romney’s Cape Cod legacy, is the gift that’s stopped giving. The summer driving season is just days away, but drivers have already been experiencing weeks of […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics, The Download
Return of the King of Bain
Back in January, Newt Gingrich did something so craven and bloodless, it sent shockwaves across the already craven, bloodless world of presidential politics: He cribbed a line of attack from […]
Posted inEconomy, Education, The Download
College debt daze
It’s tough to make the math work on a social worker’s starting salary and $80,000 in student loans. But that’s what 23-year-old Jillian Potter, a recent graduate of Anderson University […]
Posted inEducation, The Back Story
Filling the job training gap
Sometimes a good story is worth a thousand well-reasoned policy reports. Adrian Walker’s column in the Boston Globe on Monday, outlining a tale of shockingly clueless leadership at Roxbury Community […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Politics, The Download
Sex offender faces probation hearing for saying hi
A Level 3 sex offender in Andover is scheduled for a probation violation hearing after police discovered he helped a 10-year-old boy recover a lost hockey puck and said hello […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service, The Download
You say you want an evolution
President Obama’s pronouncement that he supports gay marriage is a seismic shift in the presidential campaign, though it’s little more than a talking point here in Massachusetts, the first state […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
Does religion matter in the Brown-Warren race?
When the debate over the Blunt Amendment was underway, I received a number of calls from reporters looking for any insight on how the Massachusetts Senate race might be breaking […]
Posted inOpinion, Transportation
A ripple of hope
A rainy late afternoon in Boston, and I’m walking down Tremont Street, toward the corner of Boylston near Emerson College. It’s a busy traffic intersection, and the light has just […]
Posted inEducation, The Download
Mass. bake sale ban falling flat
What do Rush Limbaugh and Anderson Cooper have in common? They both think that the new ban on school bake sales in Massachusetts is nuts. Beginning in August, public schools […]
Posted inEducation, Opinion
Full-day kindergarten should be universal
Massachusetts has seen a dramatic increase in full-day kindergarten over the past decade and is poised for even more growth. With 83 percent of children in public school kindergarten now […]
Posted inEducation, The Download
More charter schools on the way
The news that the state will lift the temporary moratorium it had imposed on new charter schools in several Massachusetts cities was greeted with the expected applause from charter school […]
Posted inEnvironment, Politics
Update: Newton goes green – at a price
UPDATE, May 9, 2012: Newton officials said on Tuesday that they expect to save an estimated $300,000 over the next three years by purchasing electricity generated from renewable energy, but […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
John Kerry’s ambitious dilemma
Today’s Boston Herald bats around the case of John Kerry, who is a politician from Massachusetts. Specifically, the paper adds to a mountain of news clips speculating about Kerry’s desire […]