UPDATE: On January 26, the day of our release of CommonWealth’s winter issue, the Patrick administration announced that the governor was filing new pension reform legislation. The governor’s bill, which […]
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CW and Fox 25 Undercover
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Money machine
UPDATE: CommonWealth magazine and Fox 25 Undercover worked together on our special reports on the Boston Redevelopment Authority. For links to the Fox 25 broadcasts, go to Fox Undercover. The […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics
City workers tap BRA housing program
 UPDATE: One of the benefits of our new website, as well as our new media partnerships, is the ability to have timely updates on stories that appear in CommonWealth magazine. […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
Probation head in the spotlight
Over the weekend, Gov. Deval Patrick leaked news that he plans to include in his upcoming budget a measure that would take the state’s probation department out of the judiciary and place it under […]
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Brown boom or Brown bubble?
The extraordinary victory of Republican Scott Brown over Democrat Martha Coakley leaves us with an important question for the Massachusetts GOP: Was the Brown phenomenon a sign of a sustainable […]
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A tangled web in Gloucester
The mess that has been made over the handling of a proposed charter school in Gloucester offers a cautionary tale of what happens when a process that is supposed to […]
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Nonprofit shows results with troubled kids
where some see reason for despair, Matt Stone sees possibility. Stone is the Massachusetts manager for Youth Villages, a nonprofit that aims to replace some residential services for troubled youth […]
Posted inThe Download, Transportation
Technology makes ride-sharing a better way to go
By Daniel Grabauskas Last Friday, Zipcar, the world's largest car sharing provider, and Zimride, the largest online ride-sharing community, announced an expansion of their partnership to five more university campuses […]
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Coakley on both sides of legal dispute
Attorney General Martha Coakley finds herself on both sides of a sensitive legal dispute over the state’s competitive auto insurance system. As the state’s top lawyer, Coakley is defending the […]
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Two weeks until CW launch date
A reminder: In two weeks, CommonWealth magazine will launch a new website featuring original reporting, guest columns, and new opportunities for readers to discuss public policy and politics.At the same […]
Posted inPolitics, The Download
Will Jill join the anti-tax brigade?
The announcement that Jill Stein will run for governor on the Green Party ticket is generally seen as another headache for Deval Patrick, who can't afford to lose any votes […]
Posted inEconomy, Education, The Download
Judge rules against Catholic college’s plans for retirement community
A state judge has ruled that Regis College can't skirt local zoning laws in building a 362-unit retirement village in Weston. The Catholic school had argued that the development was […]
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Politics not his strong suit?
The Globe's Adrian Walker thinks he knows exactly when things started to go downhill for Gov. Deval Patrick:It isn’t hard to pinpoint the day Patrick lost control of his image. […]
Posted inState House News Service, The Download, Transportation
“Walk-in” contract fails the transparency test at the MBTA
Why did MBTA's single largest contract fail to appear on its board of directors' January open meeting agenda? The MBTA Board of Directors voted Wednesday to exercise the final option on […]
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Do the people on Buzzards Bay swear like sailors?
People in one Iowa city seem to think so. The Bettendorf City Council has changed "Falmouth Court" to "Lilly Court" because too many people have trouble pronouncing the former. From […]
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Revving up for a new year and a new website
Posting at CW Unbound has been light for the past few weeks, not only because of the holiday season but also because we've been working on the Winter issue of […]
Posted inEducation, Politics, The Download
The Education Mayor
Tom Menino may have been laid up for two months in his Hyde Park home, but he's hardly been out of action. In fact, Hizzoner seems to have quietly been […]
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Budgets slashed, but not corporate tax breaks
State officials are slashing budgets and eliminating programs, but they aren’t cutting back on corporate tax breaks, at least not yet. The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, as promised in the life science legislation […]
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Mass. beats Florida, 24 other states in population growth this year
The Census Bureau released its annual Christmas present to demographers this morning: state-by-state population estimates as of six months ago. The US as a whole went up by 2.6 million […]
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Where’s Martha Coakley’s love for the League of Women Voters?
Some debates are more equal than others. That’s one political strategy that plenty of candidates for higher office have embraced, and Attorney General Martha Coakley is no exception. Coakley has […]
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Be happy we’re not New York. But not too happy.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 In a new study claiming to rank the level of happiness among Americans, New Yorkers finish dead last in 51st place (the study included Washington, DC […]
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Globe calls for NE Corridor funds
Today's Boston Globe editorializes against the "narrow rules" that resulted in Amtrak's Northeast Corridor being shut out of high-speed rail funds. MassINC's Daniel Grabauskas commented on the strangeness of the […]
Posted inHealth Care, Politics, The Download
Coakley and the abortion question
A month ago, during the Democratic Senate primary, Attorney General Martha Coakley said she would hold up national health-care reform rather than vote for the House bill, which could result […]