I happened to be on Twitter three hours ago when Governor Baker's team let loose with a number of tweets about his blue-ribbon committee to study the MBTA. I'm not a frequent tweeter, but 5 overlapping tweets in minutes seemed like overkill … [Read more...]
Archives for February 20, 2015
Fixing the MBTA – Governor Baker Announces MBTA Special Panel, Gives Them 30 Days
Today Gov. Charlie Baker announced a blue ribbon Comission to study the MBTA's current state of affairs and recommend changes. While Gov. Deval Patrick also had a commission (Headed by former John Hancock CEO David F. D'Alessandro) study … [Read more...]
The Last Public Meeting I Had with My Senator
That was Paul Tsongas. He regularly held public meetings around the Commonwealth with his constituents. I haven't heard of one since. Why is that? Hell, I haven't heard of any open public meetings my Congresscritter, Mr Capuano, … [Read more...]
Baker still flailing on MBTA
The Governor went on Eagan and Braude yesterday. I don't want to get too much into gotcha quotes, but one gets an image of a guy who's not that closely plugged into the reality that so many of us have been living with the past month -- no, … [Read more...]
What’s more important — Hollywood, or the MBTA?
Governor Baker really, really, really doesn't want to raise taxes to fix the MBTA. Okay, fine, Mr. Governor. So what are we going to do? How about this? The Hollywood tax credit costs $100 million or so a year in corporate … [Read more...]