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…

Pay No Mind to the Thieves from NH

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How do we create jobs? If you read media accounts, you'd think…

The MBTA Gets One Right

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It has almost become blood sport in these parts to pick on the…

Do you feel safer in a hospital or on an airplane?

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The World Health Organization released a report recently that…

The New Normal: Job Creation In Massachusetts

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Trying to figure out the jobs picture in Massachusetts is a challenging…

The Relentless Quest for Expansion

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Some familiar faces are once again calling for new revenues for…

Meet the Pillars of the Clean Economy

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Yep, your friendly MBTA bus driver and local garbage collector…

Learning the Wrong Lesson

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Cutting through the bureaucratese of the assembled emails and…

Their Solution is Dilution

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If there was any confusion about what Massachusetts public employee…

Outsourcing Helps Cities and Towns Provide Better Services for Less

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New Report Shows Municipalities across the Bay State Can Reduce Costs by 75% and Increase Productivity by Contracting Services

Feds Crapping Away Health $ and Increasing Deficit

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GAO (Government Accountability Office) will release a report…

Vermont Single-Payer Plan Full of Holes

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The Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts held a…

Muni Health Leap of Faith?

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This space has written previously on the muni health portion…

A Platform You Can Believe In

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Finally, a political party I can support unreservedly: Switzerland's…

Watch Me Pull A Rabbit Out of My Hat

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Again? Ruffle up my sleeve. Presto. The Great and Good…

State budget: Late and not so great

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With the next fiscal year now the current fiscal year, it’s…

Virtually There

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If Massachusetts has because of lack of leadership within the…

Beacon Hill’s Budget MassHealth Mirage

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Today the Legislature will vote on the final state budget. I…

Hold the Victory Lap

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The Conference Budget contains substantive reform to municipal…

Recovering from a Recession

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Flash forward a decade and the US cycle starting in 2001 was 4 years; conversely, and ominously for the state, Massachusetts never returned to its February 2001 employment peak, as seen in Figure 1 B. It came close in March 2008, but again began losing jobs due to the latest recession. Nevertheless, if for the purposes of comparison we allow coming close to stand in for a return to peak employment, Massachusetts had a 7-year cycle sinking into and then coming out of the 2001 recession.

A Practitioner’s Guide to Outsourcing

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There is emerging academic literature on the topic of government contracting and outsourcing. This paper does not seek to examine outsourcing from an academic perspective, however, but rather seeks to be a practitioner's guide to the issue. In doing so, this paper outlines important managerial and political considerations that may help leaders evaluate the potential of outsourcing services.