BMG's Charlie-on-the-mta asked me, a propos the delays and cost increases in the Green Line extension project, if I would write a primer on the types of public construction approaches available to the MBTA. This all stems from the fact … [Read more...]
Public health report exonerates hospital in death, but leaves questions unanswered
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) [UPDATE: It was brought to our attention that a bill was filed earlier this year by state Rep. Carolyn Dykema of Holliston that would require that physicians, nurses, dentists, and other healthcare … [Read more...]
Dinosaurs could have prevented their extinction had they been armed
Given Ben Carson's latest excellent addition to all the enlightened statements being made by GOP presidential candidates, I'm sure he would agree that the onerous gun control laws that existed at the time hastened the extinction of the … [Read more...]
State Public Records ruling on release of hospital report is a win for the public
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) In what we see as a win for the public's right to know, the state's Supervisor of Public Records has concluded that the Department of Public Health went too far in redacting virtually an entire report … [Read more...]
Requirements reduced for ‘Real Lives’ law contractor to DDS
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Due to what appears to be an open-ended provision in a bid document in 2008, the Department of Developmental Services dropped contractual work requirements and yet increased administrative fee payments … [Read more...]
A bold and brilliant political move by Chris Christie
No doubt about it. Christie's presidential aspirations were just about dead; but now he's come up with a proposal that is clearly intended to get himself a piece of Trump's looney hater vote. Christie has proposed to "track undocumented … [Read more...]
Virtually no one waiting for DDS care getting into state-run DDS homes
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) Despite the fact that an unknown number of intellectually disabled people are waiting for residential services in Massachusetts, new data provided by the state appear to show that virtually none of … [Read more...]
Governor’s MBTA panel provided virtually no support for its recommendation to restrict the Pacheco Law
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) The Governor's Special Panel to Review the MBTA earlier this year made some reasonable proposals to better manage the MBTA. But the Panel report's recommendation to remove the MBTA from the Pacheco … [Read more...]
MBTA commuter rail contracts rose by a greater percentage than in-house bus costs
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) While proponents of privatizing the MBTA point to the rising cost of in-house operations there, the cost to the agency of contracting out appears to have risen even faster. The annual cost to the … [Read more...]
The Pioneer Institute does acrobatic logical twists re the Pacheco Law
(Cross-posted from The COFAR Blog) In what has been widely viewed as a setback for state employee unions in Massachusetts, state legislators last week approved a state budget for Fiscal Year 2016 that includes a provision freezing the … [Read more...]
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