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MBTA Cuts Ahead: COVID Causes Commuters To Consider Comprehensive Changes
/0 Comments/in Better Government, COVID Podcasts, COVID Transportation, Economic Opportunity, Featured, Podcast Hubwonk, rCOVID /by Editorial StaffHost Joe Selvaggi and Pioneer Institute Senior Fellow Charlie Chieppo discuss the reasons for the recently proposed cuts to MBTA service, and offer suggestions as to how the agency’s leadership could use this crisis to improve the service’s long-term health.
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/0 Comments/in News /by Jamie GassSources for “The 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower”: Mayflower: The Ship that Started a Nation, by Rebecca Siegel The Story of the Pilgrims, by Katharine Ross The Thanksgiving Story, by Alice Dalgliesh Squanto’s Journey (The Story of the First Thanksgiving), by Joseph Bruchac What Was the First Thanksgiving?, by Joan Holub William Bradford Pilgrim Boy, by Bradford Smith The Adventurous Life of Myles Standish and the Amazing-but-True Survival Story of Plymouth Colony, by Cheryl Harness American Experience: The Pilgrims, by PBS and Ric Burns, DVD Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1645, Modernized & Abridged, Mayflower Quadricentennial Edition, by William Bradford The Story of the Mayflower Compact, by Norman Richards Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, by Nathaniel Philbrick The Courtship of […]
Pioneer Institute Welcomes New Board Members
/in Featured, News /by Editorial StaffPioneer Institute is delighted to welcome Sara Johnson and Andrew Davis to our Board of Directors. Their respective backgrounds in business development and the assessment of business opportunities, and enthusiastic support of Pioneer’s mission will be crucial to the success of the Institute’s ambitious Pioneer2024 strategic plan.
Pioneer Report Spotlights Decade-long Building Boom in Massachusetts Construction Industry
/in COVID Economy, Economic Opportunity, Featured, MassEconomix Reports, Press Releases, Press Releases: Economic Opportunity /by Editorial StaffIn the lead-up to the COVID-19 crisis, the Massachusetts construction industry enjoyed a boom in select subsectors, though employment numbers had yet to recover from the setbacks of the Great Recession, according to a new report from Pioneer Institute that draws data from the MassEconomix web tool.
Contracting with private providers could avert MBTA cuts
/0 Comments/in COVID Transportation, Featured, Oped: Better Government, Oped: Transportation, Opeds /by Jim Stergios and Charles ChieppoIn response to a collapse in MBTA service in the winter of 2015, the newly formed Fiscal and Management Control Board (FMCB) set the authority on a course of bold reforms. The COVID-19 pandemic is once again presenting new and significant challenges to T leadership that require a rethinking of how service is delivered to stave off painful service cuts.