Happy New Year from Pioneer Institute

We hope you are taking time to celebrate and find peace during this season. Thank you for your support for Pioneer, which has helped us stay focused on steering the state’s debate on the pandemic response, and making progress on our key policy objectives. Here’s to a great 2021 for Massachusetts and the country.

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OpEd: Shine a light upon MBTA pension fund

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April 25, 2016

By Mary Z. Connaughton and Charles Chieppo Guest Columnists Originally…

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Study: State Ridesharing Regs Should Focus More on Consumer Preferences, Less on Protecting Cab Companies

April 21, 2016

BOSTON - Legislation recently approved by the Massachusetts House…

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Study: Are Drug Prices Driving Healthcare Cost Growth?

April 7, 2016

Study: Requiring Drug Companies to Disclose Price Methodologies,…

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Pulitzer Prize Winners To Be Featured At Event On Teaching Jacksonian Democracy In Schools

April 4, 2016

Student Essay Contest Winners Announced Contact Jamie Gass,…

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Public Statement: MA Senate Bill Ducks Moral Responsibility to Lead on Charter Schools

March 31, 2016

The Massachusetts Senate’s charter public school bill is disappointing…

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Op-ed: State plays politics over charters

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March 30, 2016

it’s time for Massachusetts to stop playing political games with the charter authorization process.

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Op-ed: State should revive US history requirement

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March 25, 2016

To teach students how to exercise the rights and responsibilities associated with active citizenship in a democracy, Massachusetts should revive the requirement that public school students pass a US history MCAS test to graduate from high school.

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Guest Opinion: Time to end Know-Nothing legacy once and for all

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March 22, 2016

We should expel the Know-Nothings’ anti-Irish-Catholic amendment from the Massachusetts constitution, and remove bigoted Governor Gardner’s portrait from a position of prominence in our Statehouse.

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Pioneer Calls for Creation of $20 Million Middle Cities Infrastructure Fund

March 21, 2016

Read news coverage in The Enterprise of Brockton. Convention…

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Studies: Western Mass. Charter Schools Using Data to Improve Achievement

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March 9, 2016

Case Studies Describe Best Practices Of Two Successful Western…

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Column: The last of ‘The Last of the Mohicans’

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February 29, 2016

Public school children are unlikely to read "The Last of the Mohicans," a masterpiece of American literature, thanks to Common Core's emphasis on "informational texts."

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Time to End Mass. Legislature’s Self-Exemption from Open Meeting Law

February 25, 2016

PRESS RELEASE: Pioneer Contends the Legislature’s Self-Exemption…

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New Study Reveals MBTA’s Reckless Financial Derivatives

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February 23, 2016

Read coverage in The Bond Buyer: "MBTA Lost $236M in 15 Years…

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National Survey Finds Limited Access To Price Estimates For Routine Hospital Procedure

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February 21, 2016

Price for MRI of knee ranges from $400 to $4,544 BOSTON -…

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Study: Continuing Decline Over Last Decade In Massachusetts’ “Middle Cities”

February 11, 2016

Read news coverage of this report in The Springfield Republican, The…

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Out-of-Control Administrative Staffing Budget Increases at the MBTA

February 9, 2016

With talk of fare hikes and ongoing performance problems, Pioneer…

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Column: For the T, riders should come first

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February 3, 2016

Excerpt from Jim Stergios' column in The Boston Globe.  REVIEWS…

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Guest Opinion: Don’t let Challenger disaster, space race become lost

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January 28, 2016

(Note: This op-ed originally appeared on the anniversary of the…

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