WHAT WOULD IT take to really tackle climate change and move the Commonwealth to a clean energy future? What would real leadership look like? Leadership that recognizes the immense cost of delay and the enormous economic opportunities of breaking our fossil fuel addiction? We know we must act now. In the last two years, five […]
Politics
Posted inTransportation
Everybody talks about transportation
Mark Twain once famously observed, “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” The irony is, of course, there’s nothing much you can do about it but grumble. That is perhaps where we are at with transportation, especially public transit, here in Massachusetts. The MBTA is getting a lot of attention in […]
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The Codcast: Everybody talks about transportation
Mark Twain once famously observed, “Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.” The irony is, of course, there’s nothing much you can do about it but grumble. That is perhaps where we are at with transportation, especially public transit, here in Massachusetts. The MBTA is getting a lot of attention in […]
Posted inEconomy
State tallies up costs of N. Grid lockout
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE FOUR-MONTH LOCKOUT by National Grid of more than 1,200 union gas workers has cost the state millions in lost tax revenue and triggered more than $13 million in unemployment benefits, according to a Baker administration analysis conducted at the request of House Speaker Robert DeLeo. Administration and Finance Secretary Michael […]
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This election could see a millennial wave
THE POLITICAL SPIN CYCLE moves at exponential speeds these days. Where once Republicans were unenthusiastic, now they are supposedly ready to charge to the polls. And millennials, chronically disinterested in the mid-terms, are suddenly alive. According to a recent Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics poll, 40 percent of 18- to 29-year olds (a younger subset of […]
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Globe and Herald throw endorsement curves
YES, IT’S A FAIR QUESTION to ask how much influence newspaper endorsements have in an era of declining circulation — or to wonder how much sway they have ever had for that matter. But they’re still an interesting measure of the thinking on important election contests, and Boston’s two daily newspapers offer up some surprises […]
Posted inOpinion
Baker is bystander, not leader, on gun legislation
VOTERS NEED TO KNOW Charlie Baker is not a gun violence prevention leader. Everytown for Gun Safety recently endorsed Baker in the Massachusetts gubernatorial race, calling Baker a leader on gun violence prevention. We, student organizers from March For Our Lives: Boston, strongly disagree. After the Parkland shooting, many lawmakers spoke out in favor of Extreme […]
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Mass. stands tall in Dem majority
MASSACHUSETTS IS POISED to see some of the greatest gains from the mid-term elections if, in fact, the national polling trends continue to favor Democrats in November. In a House of Representatives with a Democratic majority, our federal delegation will rise in leadership and profile if they prevail in their own elections. Aside from the […]
Posted inNews Analysis
On transgender rights, Massachusetts and Trump administration moving in opposite directions
“Transgender could be defined out of existence by Trump administration” read the headline on the New York Times story from Monday, reporting on a leaked memo that showed the Department of Health and Human Services was seeking to define gender on a “biological basis”. On Wednesday, the Justice Department argued to the Supreme Court that […]
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GOP’s Ross refusing to debate his opponent
It’s a script nearly every challenger in an election follows: Throw the gauntlet down for the incumbent to agree to a series of debates and then try to hold their feet to the fire for as many encounters as you can force to get attention and recognition. It’s a pattern very familiar to Republicans in Massachusetts […]