A Chinese company’s plan to invest in A123 Systems may save the Waltham battery maker, but the deal is another blow to the US economy and the country’s efforts to […]
Growth and Development
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Patrick signs jobs bill, vetoes tax credits
Gov. Deval Patrick signed an economic development bill into law on Tuesday but vetoed a number of provisions that would have extended or expanded some of the state’s existing tax […]
Posted inEconomy, The Back Story
The Greenway standoff continues
The state Department of Transportation didn’t take the knees out from under the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy this week. MassDOT may not have heard what it wanted to hear […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics
Conservancy loses bid for Armenian park care
The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy has lost its bid to maintain the Armenian Heritage Park, a half-acre park that sits in the middle of the Greenway park system. The […]
Posted inEconomy
Legal ambiguities face Mashpee Wampanoags
When Massachusetts lawmakers legalized casino gambling last year, they put the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe in a legally tenuous position: Lawmakers gave the tribe first crack at opening a casino in […]
Posted inEconomy, Health Care, Opinion
Mass. health care law hasn’t stunted growth
The following is a slightly edited transcript of Sen. Dan Wolf’s testimony in Washington on Tuesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform regarding the job and economic costs […]
Posted inEconomy, Education
What would Jesus do?
The Holy Trinity School in Lawrence, which closed in 2004, was recently sold with the restriction that it not be used as a charter school for the next 90 years. […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics, The Back Story
Parking politics
The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is ratcheting down the tension surrounding its proposal to construct a 1,000-car garage under Storrow Drive and expand its facility out over the Charles […]
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Devens goes Hollywood
A group of Massachusetts investors unveiled plans on Tuesday to build a $30 million sound-stage complex in Devens, a bit of Hollywood-style infrastructure that is expected to help plug a […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics
Storrow Drive garage, park proposed
Clarification: Mass Eye and Ear says the profit on the existing Storrow Drive parking lot it leases from the state is less than $500,000 a year. CommonWealth reported it was […]
Posted inEconomy, Opinion
Boston and Berlin can benefit from cooperation
Five years ago, the city of Berlin and several of its biotech businesses sent a delegation to the BIO International Convention, which was held in Boston that year. It was […]
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The latest trend: Being a Gateway City
Just as wearing a bright day dress is the latest fashion statement, being called a Gateway City is apparently the latest hot trend among the state’s cities. State legislators were […]
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 […]
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Build it, they will come
James Rooney is telling lawmakers that if they build an addition on to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, convention groups will come. Now he’s got proof. Four groups have […]
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The stimulus
State officials gave a green light to the $29.6m North Bank pedestrian bridge because it was shovel ready. The bridge, which looks like a roller-coaster, runs underneath the Zakim […]
Posted inEconomy, Opinion
Senate president backs $20-$40m for training effort
Even though the numbers tell us that the Massachusetts economy is growing faster than the national average, we still have a long way to go, and the recently revised jobs […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics, The Download
The underbelly of land use politics
You don’t have to be a Saint to oppose development, according to a federal court ruling earlier this week. In fact, the judge says, you can be “sneaky” and “underhanded” […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics, State House News Service, The Download
Boston-Cambridge Google wars
“It’s too bad.” That’s how the president of the Boston City Council greeted last night’s news that Google had won approvals to expand its Cambridge headquarters. Google ran into a […]
Posted inEconomy, State House News Service, The Download
Gambling law unknowns
The late entry of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe has upended the calculus behind the Mashpee Wampanoag’s Taunton casino bid. The Mashpee were supposed to have a head start on one […]
Posted inEconomy, The Download
Retaining Boston’s tech cluster
Today marks the fourth day of South by Southwest (SXSW), a conference that attracts almost 50,000 people and showcases the latest in music, film, and technology each year in Austin. […]
Posted inEconomy, Politics, State House News Service, The Download
Where the Pentagon sees guns, Mass. sees butter
With Gov. Deval Patrick gone AWOL more and more, Lt. Gov. Tim Murray has been tapped to lead the fight to forestall cutbacks at Bay State military facilities. So far, […]
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Watchdog calls for Swan Boat audit
The following is the text of a letter sent to Boston Mayor Tom Menino from Matthew Cahill, the executive director of the Boston Finance Commission. February 23, 2012 The Honorable […]
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Shire top recipient of state tax credits
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center handed out $21.2 million in tax credits to 28 companies, with high-flying Shire HGT of Lexington garnering the top award of $3 million, bringing its […]
Posted inEconomy, Opinion
The lessons of the failed Columbus Center project
After a dozen years, 125 public meetings, and $100 million in sunk costs, the saga of the failed Columbus Center project, a mixed-use development slated to straddle the Massachusetts Turnpike […]