Happy New Year and Bombogenesis Day, everyone. No time like the present to try to divine the future; with every new Trump blowup, it's easy to neglect that we've actually got two major races this November -- Governor and Senator -- and … [Read more...]
From Charlie Baker’s Lips to the Globe Editorial Board’s Ears
Can the Globe's news desk sue the Globe’s editorial board for plagiarism? Here's what I'm talking about. We're at halftime in the biennial legislative session and the Governor is feeling a little vexed at the "glacial pace" with which … [Read more...]
The T: Three years later, still broken
The Baker administration inherited a mess of an MBTA when it took office in 2015, which quickly bloomed into an actual crisis. The weather that January and February was record-breaking, which exposed every last flaw in the system from … [Read more...]
Genuinely hopeful news on housing
We've been writing here about the cost and shortage of housing in Greater Boston for over a decade. This actually sounds like hopeful news: Aiming for the construction of 135,000 new housing units by 2025, the Baker administration on … [Read more...]
Baker on fracked gas: He has to choose.
To follow up on the press release from the pipeline protestors at the State House ... The vastness of the climate issue really requires us to organize our thoughts a bit. Some things are more important than others; there is a hierarchy of … [Read more...]
A slow-moving train crash: 20 years+ of disinvestment in the T
Michael Widmer, formerly of Mass. Taxpayers Association, gives a recap of the last twenty years (plus) -- twenty years -- of dawdling and avoidance on actually funding our transportation needs. It's a sad tale of short-sightedness and … [Read more...]
Baker lays up treasures
Stonehill Professor Peter Ubertaccio has a new post decrying the tactics of Setti Warren's campaign, trying to strip the bark off of Charlie Baker's popularity. Setti Warren's campaign is alleging that the governor is dallying on Puerto … [Read more...]
Democrats Can’t Support Baker AND Wonder Why Voters Stay Home
Several top Democrats have all but endorsed the re-election of Gov. Charlie Baker, and I want to talk about just one reason why that could potentially cripple the party's effort to convince people to register, turn out, and vote … [Read more...]
MBTA GM: Hear no lawsuit, see no lawsuit
WBUR is still owning the Ramirez/MBTA story: Turns out that the T's Fiscal Management and Control Board seems not to have been informed about Ramirez's shall-we-say dicey history at Global Power Equipment Group. Nor did they seem to have a … [Read more...]
MBTA GM: “a little fire on the tracks”
In case you missed it, WBUR's team of Chakrabarti and McNerney have even yet still another chapter in the fascinating story of Luis Ramirez -- or more properly, of the people who hired him for the MBTA. The head-hunting firm that found … [Read more...]
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