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Bureaucracies have a wonderful, self-sustaining way of letting…
All We Got Was Paint and Carpet
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Ken Lewis is on the clock
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The Free Market Reponse to Partners-Blue Cross
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Will they give the money back?
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Cut the Income Tax! Raise the Sales Tax! Lower and Raise Property Taxes!
Hey, its not my idea. It's a proposal floated by a consultant…
Parking garages are silly investments for the State
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One Last Word on the Film Tax Incentives
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What’s Going on at Higher Education
The Commonwealth released a mundane piece of annual debt disclosure…
Boston Cops and the Civil Service Commission
Michelle McPhee, late of the Herald and currently on WTKK, has…
Open Markets and Open Skies
The thicket of regulations which used to govern air travel between…
Getting the Incentives Right
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Counterintuitive Healthcare Cost Data
It has been the conventional wisdom that small businesses are…
The Sage of Omaha on Executive Compensation
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This is not a Freudian slip
The charming head of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO tells you exactly…
Worse Than I Thought
Turns out I was wrong about the overall indebtedness of the Commonwealth,…
The Choice to Go Negative
By Obama? No, Silly. The New England Patriots.
The Boston Globe…
We beat Rhode Island and New Hampshire
But that's about it. In the latest Governing Magazine assessment…