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…

Obstacles to Reform – Lowell Edition

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The Lowell School Superintendent tried to put out an RFP to determine…

Charters alive in Rhodey!

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The mayor of my hometown, Cumberland (RI), Dan McKee has gained…

Layoff Confusion

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The fluid nature of the budget process and the semantics around…

Parsing the Budget Vote

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29 Democrats voted against the budget last week and I'd like…

Ralph White, Fiscal Conservative

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[CORRECTION ADDED BELOW] I attended another meeting of the Special…

A Few Nuggets from the Conference Budget

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The Conference Budget came out late last night and its being…

Our New State Piggy Bank

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The Mass Convention Center Authority appears to be the new piggy…

Boom times at the NEA

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From our man in Education Havana, Mike Antonucci, sleuth extraordinaire,…

The BPPA and BPA

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The Globe reports that the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association…

Consider a business with two customers

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The first customer pays in about two months after getting bill,…

Unfunded Pension Liabilities Might Be Bigger Than You Think

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I'm not done with the latest 2008 Investment Report on pension…

2008 Was A Bad Year In The Markets

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PERAC has released the 2008 results for the state and local pension…

Duncan Rex – he means it on charters

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In a press release entitled "States Open to Charters Start Fast…

EOT and MBTA Do Good with BRT

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Enough acronyms for you? BRT stands for Bus Rapid Transit. The…

Chicago 45, Boston 0

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After watching Beckett pitch masterful innings of shutout, no-hit…

St. Patrick’s, er, I mean Evacuation Day

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Couple of items on the manufactured scandal over Evacuation and…

A Few Wrinkles in the DiMasi Indictment

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Former House Speaker Sal DiMasi was indicted today. You can read…

We will be able to do this soon

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My favorite Education Intelligence Agent Mike Antonucci had this…

Countdown to Fiscal Sanity

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It took one day for the House of Representatives to raise the sales tax 25 percent. It took just one day for the Senate to do the same. (The Governor has taken longer to put out his tax increase proposals, which range from a 19-cent gas tax increase, hundreds of millions of dollars in soda, candy and other targeted fees, as well as consideration of a graduated income tax.)