MBTAAnalysis: A look inside the MBTA
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The MBTA shuttles over a million passengers a day around Greater…
Obstacles to Reform – Lowell Edition
The Lowell School Superintendent tried to put out an RFP to determine…
Charters alive in Rhodey!
The mayor of my hometown, Cumberland (RI), Dan McKee has gained…
Ralph White, Fiscal Conservative
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I attended another meeting of the Special…
A Few Nuggets from the Conference Budget
The Conference Budget came out late last night and its being…
Our New State Piggy Bank
The Mass Convention Center Authority appears to be the new piggy…
Boom times at the NEA
From our man in Education Havana, Mike Antonucci, sleuth extraordinaire,…
Consider a business with two customers
The first customer pays in about two months after getting bill,…
Unfunded Pension Liabilities Might Be Bigger Than You Think
I'm not done with the latest 2008 Investment Report on pension…
2008 Was A Bad Year In The Markets
PERAC has released the 2008 results for the state and local pension…
Duncan Rex – he means it on charters
In a press release entitled "States Open to Charters Start Fast…
EOT and MBTA Do Good with BRT
Enough acronyms for you? BRT stands for Bus Rapid Transit.
The…
St. Patrick’s, er, I mean Evacuation Day
Couple of items on the manufactured scandal over Evacuation and…
A Few Wrinkles in the DiMasi Indictment
Former House Speaker Sal DiMasi was indicted today. You can read…
We will be able to do this soon
My favorite Education Intelligence Agent Mike Antonucci had this…
Countdown to Fiscal Sanity
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.)