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…

Go to D.C, young man, for that is where fortunes are made.

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Telling article on Forbes.com I just read this weekend listing…

Ouch from the Globe on state performance

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

Supply vs. Demand – and Demand is winning

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The Boston Zoning Commission voted yesterday to approve the City…

Worse Than I Thought

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Turns out I was wrong about the overall indebtedness of the Commonwealth,…

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…

Michelle Rhee takes out the knife

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From the Washingtonian.com piece on Michelle Rhee, the chancellor…

CitiStat: Don’t make a sham of it

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Pioneer is on the cheering squad, promoting CitiStat programs.…

NYC charter to pay teachers more than lawyers

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But the unions don't like this idea. A proposed New York City…

The Choice to Go Negative

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By Obama? No, Silly. The New England Patriots. The Boston Globe…

Education leadership but not here

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Diane Ravitch, Sol Stern and others have criticized Mayor Bloomberg…

Are local zoning, wetlands regulations “market oriented”?

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At Thursday’s Pioneer forum on wetlands policy, one participant…

Good on Alan LeBovidge

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

Eating his words

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As noted last week, the Board Chairman S. Paul Reville performed…

Boom market for teachers in Denver

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Next thing you know, it won't just be the skilled workforce in…

Is Christy Available?

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On the heels of Tuesday's results, Obama's ability to take a…

Louisiana beat us

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

We beat Rhode Island and New Hampshire

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But that's about it. In the latest Governing Magazine assessment…

Debating biotech on NECN

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

Slate on Guv Patrick and education

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Picking up on Fred Siegel's piece on the politics of hope and…

Yes, We Can’t

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Tough article on Barack Obama and the politics of hope from Fred…

A first for the Board of Education

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Yes, it is truly an -- ahem -- independent Board of Education.…

One down, two to go

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

Huey Long. . . er, I mean, Hilary on vouchers

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My colleague, Jamie Gass, the cynic that he is, predicted after…

Obama on charter schools and vouchers

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I like Barack Obama. I like the rhetoric he uses and the hope…

Two connections are missing

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In a number of articles in the Boston press on the Governor's…

The Dome does not get it

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But Steve Bailey does. Not because he mentions Pioneer's work…

Chinatown bus

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I know there have been, let's call it, some issues with the Chinatown…

Concentrating poverty in our cities

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The Globe reports in "Warehouse for the Poor" that Holyoke and…

Milwaukee Voucher Students Have Diploma Edge

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Thanks to the folks at the Rhode Island Statewide Coalition for…

A lack of imagination

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As Dennis Miller used to say, I don't want to go on a rant here,…