Globe business columnist Shirley Leung, on whom we can always rely to be highly attuned to the sensitivities of corporate executives, recently shared with us what drives retiring Bank of America board member Chad Gifford crazy -- "big-bank … [Read more...]

The editorial boards of both the Herald and the Globe are calling on the Legislature to repeal a misguided 1989 law that revokes the driver’s license of anyone who is convicted of a drug offense and imposes a $500 fee to reinstate a license … [Read more...]

A series of articles by Kay Lazar in the Globe has brought us the unsavory story of Synergy Health Centers, a New Jersey company that arrived in Massachusetts three years ago and now operates 11 nursing homes here. The Globe details the … [Read more...]

Today's announcement that Supreme Judicial Court Justice Robert Cordy will retire in August means that Governor Baker will be appointing a majority of the SJC -- and soon. Justice Francis Spina turns 70 later this year, and Justices … [Read more...]

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission, in a unanimous decision by the judges. State and municipal agencies are prone to resisting public records requests (sometimes for reasons that may be understandable -- like a lack of resources -- but … [Read more...]

In response to tarbelsanklebiter's excellent question about the status of the driver's license suspension law. First a little background. Back in 1989, Massachusetts passed a law that revokes for a period of one to five years the … [Read more...]

A question for our Legislature, whose leaders reportedly are looking to get more done this year than last: to enact or not to enact the GMO labeling bill? It would be hard to find a bill with more legislative support: 155 of our 200 … [Read more...]

Amazon is coming to Fall River. The on-line giant announced last week that it will occupy a million-square-foot building that's going to be built on the Fall River-Freetown line. The new warehouse, which in Amazon-speak carries the name … [Read more...]

(Veterans' Day thoughts on the Pentagon's Paid-Patriotism.) Re: the Globe story last week that much of the military-inspired pageantry at football games is a recruitment effort paid for by the Department of Defense. The teams on the … [Read more...]