is what didn't happen.  This, from Commonwealth Magazine: there were no other proposals to lift taxi and livery regulations that control price, cap the number of cabs, and, in places such as Boston, mandate taxi companies use a radio … [Read more...]

Donald Trump was Jimmy Fallon's guest on the Tonight Show last night.  You should watch it, not because you will learn anything substantive (you won't), or because after watching you will feel better about the fact that Trump has been … [Read more...]

Another poll out today shows Donald Trump not just up, but way up, in the Republican primary race.  If you're keeping score at home, CNN's new poll has Donald Trump at 32%, Ben Carson at 19%, and everyone else under 10% (Jeb! leads that … [Read more...]

What is it, exactly, that Donald Trump is selling?  In substantial part, it's himself - as my co-editor Bob puts it, Trump is trying to "feed his bloated idiot-sized ego."  Trump loves to talk about how rich he is, how much he personally … [Read more...]

I'm calling it right now.  The 2016 Republican nominee for president will be Donald Trump.  And Ben Carson will be Trump's running mate. You don't think it's going to be Trump?  Who else is it going to be?  Jeb Bush, the supposed choice … [Read more...]

There's been a great deal of breathless speculation following the meeting between Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, much of it centered on the (entirely hypothetical so far) possibility of Biden's jumping into the race for president and … [Read more...]

Globe: Boston taxis drove 1.5 million fewer passengers and took $33 million less in fares in the first half of 2015 compared to the year before, new city data show. Ridership dropped 22 percent from the January-to-June total last year … [Read more...]

Is Donald Trump a blowhard?  You bet.  A demagogue?  Maybe.  A plausible President of the United States?  Gosh, I sure don't think so. And yet, it must be noted that his positions on some important issues are actually to the left of the … [Read more...]

As the proponents of a ballot question to increase the state income tax rate on earners of over a million dollars a year move forward, we can expect to see a good deal of pushback along the lines of "the people who wrote Amendment Article … [Read more...]