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…

Portland is a City that Doesn’t Work?

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I walk to work, and I cannot for the life of me understand how…

Shoot, did I miss Bastille Day?

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First of all, let me just say how proud I am of my fellow Pioneers:…

Questionable ties

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From a website providing "the history of the necktie" come several…

The Emerging Anti-Necktie Consensus

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The necktie debate has roiled through our office several times.…

A LOT of GBH tote bags

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I like "Sesame Street," as I don't think pre-school children…

Great Pension Resource

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We did a paper last year detailing the cost of pension gaming…

A Big Wet Kiss for Racinos

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The Globe's Stan Grossfeld plants exactly that in today's Globe…

Darwin Award Candidate

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Yesterday's Globe reports on charges filed against a Vermont…

McKay is increasingly OK

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Florida's McKay scholarship program is increasingly a model to…

Taxes and Tolls

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As promised, today's Mass Media headlines on the homepage will…

Always double down on 11

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That is, of course, unless the dealer is showing a face card. There…

PACho Libre?

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OK, I swear to god this is true. Friends at the Mackinac Center…

Not yet a Declaration of Independence but Getting There

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In an op-ed in the Saturday Globe, Father Monan and Michael Keating…

Shameless Plug

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Actually, this is more a vain attempt to bring attention to a…

Do we know how to pick ’em?

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From the Worcester Telegram & Gazette: The Devens boom, an editorial…

So long, Mrs. Whatsit

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I apologize. I have been absent from the blogosphere for over…

WaPo on School Standards

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The Washington Post on September 10 had this to say as Congress…

It’s about the children – ugly, mean and expensive

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On October 5, Pioneer is releasing a survey of state tax deduction…

Weekly Football Picks

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What, you expected this blog to do a straight football piece?…

Pension Liability Grows Drip By Drip

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We looked at the cost that pension loopholes and gaming impose…

A Refreshing Start

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The Globe's Thursday editorial on the start of the new school…

Massachusetts and the Copernican Principle

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In rough terms, the Copernican Principle states that we should…

Quo Vadis?

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Ross Gittell in the New England Journal of Higher Education/Summer…

As if reading my mind. . .

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The Boston Globe led today with Property tax bills soar as services…

I’ve seen the lights go down on Dartmouth

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It's been a long summer in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. In a story…

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens. . .

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We're always gratified when our work appears on Blue Mass Group.…

Mass Health Care, USA

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Mitt Romney is now doubling back to health care after his symbolic…

Some markets are more equal than others.

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The subprime crisis may soon lead to a shortage of liquidity,…

Good God, professors bow to the Left?

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Who wudda thunk it? I mean, I never saw any hint of politicized…

Bored with education progress

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It was something of a blast from the past that Governor Patrick…