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…

Start Here Before Cutting Into the Safety Net

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Common Sense Budget Actions Author(s): — Publication date:…

Life Cycle Delivery of Public Infrastructure

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Precedents and Opportunities for the Commonwealth Author(s):…

Regionalization: Case Studies of Success and Failure in Massachusetts

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Case Studies of Success and Failure in Massachusetts Author(s):…

Regionalization: Case Studies of Success and Failure in Massachusetts

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Case Studies of Success and Failure in Massachusetts Author(s):…

Hard Decisions, Needed Leadership

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Author(s): — Publication date: 2008-10-17 Category: Better…

GIC Consolidation

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Author(s): Steve Poftak — Publication date: 2008-06-01 Category:…

Shades of Green: The Patchwork of Wetlands Regulation in Massachusetts

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The Patchwork of Wetlands Regulations in Massachusetts Author(s):…

Benefit blowout

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

Hope is not a strategy

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

Boston Cops and the Civil Service Commission

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

Open Markets and Open Skies

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

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…

Thanks TxDoT

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

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…

Ouch from the Globe on state performance

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

Blue Cross Blue Shield – The Public Trough?

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I hate to go on a rant here, but $70,000 to be on the board of…

Good on Alan LeBovidge

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Back in the Amorello days of the Mass Turnpike, Tom Keane wrote…

Louisiana beat us

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A follow to Meister Poftak's post on the Grading the States report…

Farm Subsidies, Part XXXVI

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This space takes a dim view of almost all farm subsidies as market-distorting…

Counterintuitive News

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It's too early, I realize.  But the state is $245 million ahead…

Healthcare Cost Control

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Senate President Murray presented her ideas about controlling…

So, which is it?

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Our friends at CURP and A Better City held an event on Oct. 31st…

Debating biotech on NECN

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Some improvements in the House version of the biotech bill resulted…

Just sayin

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The old grey lady warns today: New Jersey’s problems are magnified…

One down, two to go

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Just a few months ago, a wise man said the proof of success in…