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…

Obstacles to Reform – Lowell Edition

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The Lowell School Superintendent tried to put out an RFP to determine…

Charters alive in Rhodey!

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The mayor of my hometown, Cumberland (RI), Dan McKee has gained…

Layoff Confusion

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The fluid nature of the budget process and the semantics around…

Parsing the Budget Vote

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29 Democrats voted against the budget last week and I'd like…

Ralph White, Fiscal Conservative

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[CORRECTION ADDED BELOW] I attended another meeting of the Special…

A Few Nuggets from the Conference Budget

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The Conference Budget came out late last night and its being…

Our New State Piggy Bank

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The Mass Convention Center Authority appears to be the new piggy…

Boom times at the NEA

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From our man in Education Havana, Mike Antonucci, sleuth extraordinaire,…

The BPPA and BPA

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The Globe reports that the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association…

Consider a business with two customers

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The first customer pays in about two months after getting bill,…

Unfunded Pension Liabilities Might Be Bigger Than You Think

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I'm not done with the latest 2008 Investment Report on pension…

2008 Was A Bad Year In The Markets

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PERAC has released the 2008 results for the state and local pension…

Duncan Rex – he means it on charters

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In a press release entitled "States Open to Charters Start Fast…

EOT and MBTA Do Good with BRT

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Enough acronyms for you? BRT stands for Bus Rapid Transit. The…

Chicago 45, Boston 0

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After watching Beckett pitch masterful innings of shutout, no-hit…

St. Patrick’s, er, I mean Evacuation Day

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Couple of items on the manufactured scandal over Evacuation and…

A Few Wrinkles in the DiMasi Indictment

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Former House Speaker Sal DiMasi was indicted today. You can read…

We will be able to do this soon

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My favorite Education Intelligence Agent Mike Antonucci had this…

Will MA forfeit education stimulus dollars?

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EdNews.org passes on this AP report on US Ed Secretary Arne Duncan's…

13 is not the right number

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Reading about the investigation into misconduct at the MBTA Police…

About Time

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After ten long years, Time Warner has finally made the decision…

My Earthfest Pet Peeve

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Earthfest is this Saturday on the Esplanade. If past practice…

Raising the Symbolism Bar

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Sure, our local politicians have their symbolism -- who can forget…

Questions Michael Flaherty, Sam Yoon and Kevin McCrea should be asking

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The Globe this week ran successive stories (here and here) regarding…

I am about to toss my cookies

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That was my dad's self-edited way of expressing his disregard…

Wet, Wetter, Wettest

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Jack Butterworth reported in the Daily Item on a recent town…

Interesting Wrinkles in New GIC Study

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A new study, published by the Rappaport Institute and Collins…

Strategic Debate is Good for the Country

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President Obama and former Vice President Cheney delivered competing…

Can He Say That?

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Treasurer Tim Cahill went down to New Bedford and told them: the…

An absolute must read

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Again, I have to give Michael Graham his props. As a colleague…