How much are our jokes, our stories, our likes and dislikes, our pictures, our family and friends worth? To you, priceless, but on the open market, perhaps as much as […]
Who will like Facebook’s IPO?
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Dueling viewpoints on the Greenway
Secretary Davey’s letter to the Rose Fitzgerald Greenway Conservancy: Nancy Brennan, Executive DirectorRose Fitzgerald Greenway Conservancy 185 Kneeland Street, 7th Fl. Boston, MA 02111 Dear Nancy:Thank you for sending the […]
Posted inEconomy, Health Care, Opinion
Workers comp reform offers wellness lessons
Obesity, and the chronic disease conditions that it causes and exacerbates, is the leading cause of the growth of healthcare spending in America. These growing costs hurt our businesses and […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service, The Download
Arthur Winn, Florida, and campaign finance
This afternoon, prominent housing developer Arthur Winn will appear in federal court in Boston and be sentenced for funneling $4,500 in illegal campaign contributions to a pair of Massachusetts congressmen. […]
Posted inEducation
Turnaround challenge
High School of Commerce from Amherst Wire on Vimeo. Singing. Laughing. Dancing on a balcony that nobody can ever remember being used in the auditorium. It’s August 30, the first […]
Posted inEconomy, Environment, Transportation
Murray says MBTA needs more revenue
Senate President Therese Murray said the MBTA needs additional revenue to address its projected $161 million budget shortfall, but she indicated she did not favor an increase in the state’s […]
Posted inOpinion, Politics
Remembering Kevin White
The death of former Boston Mayor Kevin White comes as no surprise to those who knew that he was in failing health for many years. Yet the news still comes […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
Mayor Deluxe
He was, as Brian Mooney led the paper-of-record’s obit-of-record, “a colossal political figure who helped transform Boston into a world-class city during 16 often turbulent years as mayor.” But beyond […]
Posted inPolitics, State House News Service
The Boston Occupier goes old school
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misidentified the original name of The Boston Occupier. It began under the name The Occupy Boston Globe. Media watchers who proclaim that print […]
Posted inEducation, State House News Service
UMass Lowell student avoids deportation
Denis Lemos, an undocumented student from Framingham who was featured in a CommonWealth story on immigration last fall, is being allowed to stay in the United States. The US Department […]
Posted inThe Back Story, Uncategorized
The Mashpee mad dash
A section of the state’s new casino gambling law that was intended to give a head start to the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe may now be working against the tribe. The […]
Posted inHealth Care, Opinion
Sugar is a shot in the arm
At our women’s health clinic at Massachusetts General Hospital, we run groups for women with diabetes that is out of control. It’s a new style we developed — not just […]
Posted inEnvironment, Politics, The Download
Drill, baby, drill
President Obama made it official this week: The United States is awash in natural gas. “We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years,” Obama […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
Political goals, touchdowns, and dunks
This week hundreds of reporters from around the country will try to get Tom Brady, Eli Manning, or any number of their teammates to say something beyond the canned observations […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
No more Mr. Nice President
Nothing sobers up a president faster than the real prospect of losing a re-election battle. For the past three years, President Obama’s critics on the left have chided him for […]
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Coakley closes DiPaola probe
Despite evidence of a “pay-to-play culture” in the Middlesex County Sheriff’s office under the late James DiPaola, Attorney General Martha Coakley today announced the conclusion of an investigation into public […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics, The Download
Going ‘Freddie’ in Florida
The Republican presidential primary entered a new and brutal phase when it rolled into Florida yesterday, with Mitt Romney going sharply negative on the suddenly re-resurgent Newt Gingrich. Romney is […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Economy, Education, Health Care
Patrick delivers state of the state
Below is the full text of Governor Deval Patrick’s state of the state address, delivered Monday night at the State House. Lieutenant Governor and fellow Constitutional Officers, Madame President, Mr. […]
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Romney reports income of $21.6m, no wages
Click here to view former Governor Mitt Romney’s 2010 tax returns. Romney’s 2011 estimated return can be viewed on his campaign website. Homepage photo by Gage Skidmore and published under a Creative […]
Posted inState House News Service, Uncategorized
Smart on crime is everyone’s mantra
As Gov. Deval Patrick and legislative leaders close ranks around controversial “three strikes” legislation, a group calling itself Smart on Crime Massachusetts today called on the officials to rethink their […]
Posted inEconomy
Galvin trades barbs with S. Coast officials
South Coast officials traded pointed accusations with an unusually animated Secretary of State William Galvin today, as the two sides battled over a bill exempting a stalled Freetown office development […]
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Murray’s spin-out
Until yesterday, it looked as if Lt. Gov. Tim Murray had been through a very rough patch of misfortune, with two separate big hits to his political standing: a series […]
Posted inEducation
Teachers ask SJC to block petition
The Massachusetts Teachers Association today filed a suit to block a ballot initiative that would establish a teacher evaluation system in public schools. Click here to read the suit.
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Common ground for strange Web bedfellows
President Obama came out against some of the provisions in the two bills in Congress that would put the boot on online piracy so you’d think the remaining Republican contenders […]