The Codcast: Boston’s chief of the streets, Part 2

By CommonWealth Staff MBTA 2 Comments Sep 22, 2017

Everyone talks about equity these days. Pay equity, gender equity, racial equity. You can add to that list mobility equity and neighborhood equity, areas that are affected by all other social and economic equity issues. Chris Osgood, Boston’s chief of the streets, says successful transportation planning now has to start at those equity points in(...)

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Charter ballot money is fuel on ed debate fire

By CommonWealth Staff Charlie Baker, Charter schools 5 Comments Sep 21, 2017

When asked a year ago about the propriety of the chairman of the state board of education donating $100,000 to the campaign to raise the cap on charter schools in Massachusetts, Gov. Charlie Baker deemed the matter a “nothingburger.” He may have been right. It turns out that donation was just the lettuce, tomato, and(...)

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It’s good to be king

By CommonWealth Staff Current Affairs, Elections, Marty Walsh 0 Comments Sep 20, 2017

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, in a speech before the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Wednesday morning, announced plans for a long-delayed memorial to the late Dr. Martin Luther King. Details to come. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, in a speech before the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Wednesday morning, announced the creation of a landmark public(...)

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For Mass., high stakes in health debate

By CommonWealth Staff Cost of Living and Consumer Affairs, Health Care, Massachusetts politics 0 Comments Sep 19, 2017

Efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act gained some momentum this week as Republicans put forward legislation that would put the brakes on federal health care spending in a way that would disproportionately impact blue states such as Massachusetts, New York, and California. The legislation, filed by Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill(...)

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Globe comes clean

By CommonWealth Staff Current Affairs, Media and Journalism 0 Comments Sep 18, 2017

The Boston Globe aired its dirty linen in public over the weekend, running a front-page story that revealed the newspaper is still a long way from resolving problems with its printing presses in Taunton that have delayed or even prevented deliveries. There have been mea culpas before about the breakdown-prone presses from publisher John Henry,(...)

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The Codcast: Boston’s chief of the streets

By CommonWealth Staff MBTA, Technology 3 Comments Sep 15, 2017

Boston’s streets and sidewalks comprise 9 square miles in a city that is only 48 square miles in total. Chris Osgood, with the odd but apt title of Boston’s chief of the streets, is the person in charge of not only maintaining that infrastructure but making sure that residents have access to it whether they(...)

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Chasing health care’s ‘big white whale’

By CommonWealth Staff Donald Trump, Healthcare, National Politics 1 Comment Sep 14, 2017

As Margot Sanger-Katz wrote in the New York Times on Monday, Democrats “giddy” from their recent health victory were ready to reach for the big prize — a single-payer health care system. That happened Wednesday, when Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rolled out his “Medicare for all” legislation. The speed with which Democrats have gone from(...)

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Amazon’s search for prime rewards

By CommonWealth Staff Charlie Baker, Current Affairs 3 Comments Sep 13, 2017

No one ever accused Jeff Bezos of being a bad businessman. Well, maybe some when Amazon was just selling books online and wallowing in red ink in the early years. But the guy who made Amazon a household name by disrupting the entire retail industry has triggered a civil war across the country – and(...)

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Come clean on pot use

By CommonWealth Staff Civil and Constitutional Rights, Current Affairs, Legal marijuana 0 Comments Sep 12, 2017

The Cannabis Control Commission met for the first time on Monday, and two of the five members refused to say whether they had ever smoked pot. Commissioners Jennifer Flanagan, a former state senator, and Shaleen Title, who worked on the ballot question that legalized recreational marijuana, declined to say whether they had used marijuana. Britte(...)

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Have you seen the Globe today?

By CommonWealth Staff Current Affairs, Media and Journalism 2 Comments Sep 11, 2017

Yankees-Red Sox, Celtics-Lakers, Donald Trump-World. There’s nothing like a good rivalry and when the Boston Herald and Boston Globe engage in a tong war for readers, it makes for great reading and, for those of us in the business, riveting inside baseball chat. But the latest contretemps has little to do with content and it’s(...)


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