Is a Boston soccer stadium Kraft’s goooooaaaaaaallllll?

By CommonWealth Staff 0 Comments Jul 18, 2018

The New England Patriots have long been viewed as the NFL’s equivalent of the CIA with secrets held close to the vest and little useful information disseminated to the masses. But while head coach Bill Belichick is often targeted as the key player in the information hoarding, he may be challenged by his boss, owner(...)

Opinion

National Grid explains its lockout

'We've never made a harder decision'

By Marcy Reed Economics 0 Comments Jul 15, 2018

AT NATIONAL GRID, we’ve always taken pride in our ability to negotiate fair, multiyear labor contracts with our unions and to provide robust compensation packages to our employees, who provide important services to our gas and electric customers. We are a heavily unionized company. We have about 10,000 unionized employees in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and(...)

Opinion

Electricity trick or treat?

Pro and con: Do competitive electricity suppliers help or hurt in Massachusetts?

By Daniel Stevens and Tom Matzzie Clean Energy, Economy, Electricity, Environment, Solar power, utilities 0 Comments Jul 14, 2018

Well-intentioned law has been corrupted by con men BY DANIEL STEVENS AS SUMMER SWINGS into high gear, our electric bills do, too. Modern life dictates that we need power to keep us cool. To try and reduce electricity prices for people living in Massachusetts, a few years ago, the state Legislature created a program called(...)

Opinion

Gas lockout endangers everyone

National Grid putting profits before people

By John Buonopane and Joe Kirylo Economy, Health Insurance, lockout, National Grid, unions, utilities 0 Comments Jul 12, 2018

LAST FALL, NATIONAL GRID employee Scott Ambler helped prevent what could have been a potentially devastating gas explosion in Weymouth. Ambler was not assigned to the job; instead he was passing by the site when he noticed water contractors digging around what they thought was a water pipe, but which Ambler knew immediately was a(...)

Opinion

Disability insurers discriminate against women

Legislation would put an end to higher prices for individual policies

By Liz Friedman Economics, Massachusetts Legislature 0 Comments Jul 11, 2018

WHILE MASSACHUSETTS HAS ENACTED the strongest laws in the country to ensure equitable pay for women, the reality is that there is still significant work to be done to ensure that women in the Commonwealth have the same advantages and stand on equal financial ground with their male counterparts. It is high time that we(...)

Summer 2018

Gateway Cities discover the power of food

Fresh veggies, koshari turn food deserts into oases

By Ted Siefer Gateway Cities, Growth and Development 0 Comments Jul 10, 2018

PHOTOGRAPHS BY KEN RICHARDSON FOOD HAS ALWAYS LOOMED LARGE in the life of Dimple Rana. While growing up in Revere, she helped her parents, immigrants from India, work in Indian grocery stores in Somerville. Later, she helped manage convenience stores owned by her family. But working retail wasn’t her ambition. She promptly left Revere after(...)

State’s first pot store to open in Leicester

Retail outlet likely to open after Labor Day

By Jack Sullivan Cannabis Control Commission, Economy, Legal marijuana, Medical marijuana, Taxes and Budget Issues 0 Comments Jul 2, 2018

THE STATE’S CANNABIS Control Commission on Monday awarded its first license for a retail recreational pot store to a medical marijuana facility in Leicester, where sales will probably start sometime in September. The board unanimously approved the provisional license for Cultivate Holdings to add retail pot to the medical marijuana the company sells at the(...)

Opinion

A letter to Larry Bacow

Three suggestions as you take over as Harvard president

By Paul A. Hattis Harvard University, Health Care, Higher education, student debt 0 Comments Jun 29, 2018

DEAR LARRY, As you begin your tenure as president of Harvard University next week, I wish you the very best. We appreciated all you did when you were the president of Tufts University; you really helped to make Tufts a better place. Having read your May interview with outgoing President Drew Faust in the Harvard Gazette, I appreciate that(...)

Opinion

Renaming Faneuil Hall would not erase history

We always reconsider the past in the light of new perspectives

By Kevin Peterson Boston, Economy, Faneuil Hall, Racism, Slavery, Tourism 0 Comments Jun 29, 2018

IN A LOCAL TV news station poll this month, more than 90 percent of viewers opposed renaming Faneuil Hall, an iconic civic edifice in Boston which has been a magnet for tourist and elementary school day-trippers. Yet, all across the nation, large cities and small municipalities are taking sure-footed measures toward removing or renaming monuments,(...)

DeLeo: House to respond to court’s union ruling

Decision bars assessments on nonunion members

By Colin A. Young Civil and Constitutional Rights, Robert DeLeo 0 Comments Jun 27, 2018

STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE AS LAWMAKERS MULL THE IMPACTS of a US Supreme Court ruling seen as a devastating blow to public sector labor unions, the Massachusetts House is hoping labor leaders will suggest ways the Legislature can respond and soften the blow. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday in Janus v. American Federation of(...)


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'We've never made a harder decision'

Pro and con: Do competitive electricity suppliers help or hurt in Massachusetts?

National Grid putting profits before people

Legislation would put an end to higher prices for individual policies

Fresh veggies, koshari turn food deserts into oases

Retail outlet likely to open after Labor Day

Three suggestions as you take over as Harvard president

We always reconsider the past in the light of new perspectives

Decision bars assessments on nonunion members

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