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…

More Pension Fun

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Today's Globe has two stories on pensions today. In the first,…

Great Moments in Powerpoint

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No, not the Gettysburg Address. (Full site is here.) At a recent…

Happy Bunker Hill Day

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Caught the annual parade in Charlestown on Sunday. This parade…

Whatever you do say nothing

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...when you talk about you know what. The above line is from…

How Much Have Business Taxes Increased?

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Upon release of the Governor's budget, the issue of business…

Tooting My Own Horn

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Ripped from today's headlines: "I think there's certainly a…

Too Much Innovation from the Public Sector?

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Have you seen the logo for the 2012 Olympics in London? It appears…

The Dog That Never Barked

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With apologies to Sherlock Holmes, today's Steve Bailey column…

You are Fired!!??

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Submerged three paragraphs down in the Globe's "New England in…

Traitors In Our Midst

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Pioneer is a think tank dedicated to the work of making Massachusetts…

Baker-Levy Smackdown, Part Two

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Paul Levy runs Beth Israel, an academic medical center (and a…

Supply and Demand — Is it really a law or just an opinion?

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The Commonwealth is funding an innovative program to replace…

No more fat to cut

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Watching the Sox-Yankees game last night (the local feed on NESN,…

Go Newton Go

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A year ago, Pioneer released a report that put the cost of local…

More budget minutiae

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A close reading of the Outside Sections in the Senate Ways and…

And then there were two

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The Senate Ways and Means Budget contains a provision (scroll…

A Troubling Pattern Emerging?

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Friday's Globe has two articles on recent actions by the Governor…

Feeding the Lions

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Bill Weld used to say that unless you feed the lions (i.e. the…

How much does a kid cost?

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Just below the surface of most land-use/housing debates is the…

Try, try, and try again

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No one else seems to have noticed, but the Governor's supplemental…

More kids = More school expenditures, right?

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Seems like a reasonable idea, and the basis for Chapter 70 Education…

Cold Fusion with Common Household Items

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Our Governor has recently made some very public pronouncements…

Today Pioneer, Tomorrow….

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Former Pioneer summer intern Brady Cassis starred as a quarterfinalist…

Unemployment Insurance — Why You Should Care

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The irascible Jon Keller gets it exactly right in a recent post…

Which way to a greater Boston region?

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The indispensable Amy Dain reports from the provinces: Today…

Strategic Planning? We don’t need no stinkin’ planning.

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Our friend and Pioneer Board Member, Professor Joe Giglio has…

Yummm, 10:16 Lunch…….

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The Globe Magazine has a fascinating piece on the extended school…

Out of the Mouths of Grad Students

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Today's Globe has two interesting articles (one unintentionally…

Wacky Pension Hijinks, Pt. 2?

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This morning's Globe raises some interesting questions about…

Wacky Pension-Related Hijinks

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Or maybe not so wacky. The estimable adamg over at Universal…