MBTAAnalysis: A look inside the MBTA

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The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…

The Clock is Ticking…….

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The clock is ticking towards December 30, 2017.  As part of…

Zoning out or zoning in-clusionary

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Hot trends in local zoning include age-restricted villages, in-law…

Results in on Teach for America

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What kind of impact does the influx of young, motivated people…

Patrick comes out for school choice!

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Your Excellency, We at Pioneer were feeling as double-crossed…

One Last Word on the Film Tax Incentives

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Yesterday's Globe had an article critical of the film tax credit…

What’s Going on at Higher Education

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The Commonwealth released a mundane piece of annual debt disclosure…

Benefit blowout

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You are constantly berated for not saving money, folks. You overspend.…

Lottery Questions

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Interested in how your town fares under the Lottery -- take a…

Hope is not a strategy

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The Great Beacon Hill Foodfight has now reached the Big Apple's…

Teacher shortages

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I love the Education Intelligence Agency. Click HERE to enter…

Floor falls out in California housing

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On the LA Times blog today there is a distressing bit of news…

Boston Cops and the Civil Service Commission

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Michelle McPhee, late of the Herald and currently on WTKK, has…

Reaching

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Slate's Tim Noah attempts to draw a parallel between Obama's…

School choice programs increase 84 percent in 5 years

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No, not here, silly. In the rest of the United States! Do I have…

Seeking better bylaws: Zoning for new housing and historic preservation.

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Chris Skelly at the Massachusetts Historical Commission asked…

Open Markets and Open Skies

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The thicket of regulations which used to govern air travel between…

I went to a fight

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...and a birthday party broke out. Sheesh, two police reports…

WaPo on Michelle Rhee and quality teachers

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The keynote for this year's Better Government Competition, which…

A rose by another name

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Totally off topic, but I do want to acknowledge Kevin Cullen's…

Getting the Incentives Right

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At the end of the day, compensation systems are intended to attract…

Fed corporate tax killing state competitiveness

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One could sum up a report from the Tax Foundation as saying the…

17-year old wisdom

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We have an expression we use around the office: adult in the…

Thanks TxDoT

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Our thanks to the kind folks at the Texas Department of Transportation…

Counterintuitive Healthcare Cost Data

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It has been the conventional wisdom that small businesses are…

The Sage of Omaha on Executive Compensation

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Today's Globe contains news of potential inquiries by Congressman…

From James Joyce to Grand Theft Auto

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I've been reading David Boaz lately, so I'm in a bit of a Libertarian…

This is not a Freudian slip

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The charming head of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO tells you exactly…

Forecast on foreclosures dismal. What to do?

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More than 7,500 properties were foreclosed in MA in 2007. The…

Go to D.C, young man, for that is where fortunes are made.

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Telling article on Forbes.com I just read this weekend listing…

Ouch from the Globe on state performance

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The editorial page of today's Globe takes up a favorite theme…

Supply vs. Demand – and Demand is winning

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The Boston Zoning Commission voted yesterday to approve the City…