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UMass Football Coach is the 7th Highest Paid Employee in the State
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Transparency /by Mitch BoveFootball fans across the country wait in anticipation for the start of the 2022 season which is right around the corner. The UMass Minutemen’s first game is on September 3rd against Tulane University. The Minutemen are a part of the NCAA Division I Independent Schools, but a fact college football fans may not know is the salary of head coaches. From 2018 to 2021, the head coach of the Minutemen was Walter Bell, who according to Pioneer Institute’s MassOpenBooks, had a salary of $652,866 making him the seventh highest paid employee in the University of Massachusetts system in 2021. Bell was also the seventh highest paid employee at UMass in 2020 with a salary of $618,683, and in 2019 […]
Final Election Verdict: Conservative Compendium Comprehensively Closes 2020 Challenge Cases
/in Featured, Podcast Hubwonk /by Editorial StaffThis week on Hubwonk, host Joe Selvaggi talks with Ilya Somin, author and George Mason Law professor, about the newly released report on all court challenges to the 2020 presidential election entitled, Lost, Not Stolen, exploring what its authors intended to achieve, what its readers can learn from its findings, and whether such intra-party scrutiny can serve to reassure voters that their concerns about election integrity have had their day in court.
New Report: Massachusetts Maintains Reasonable Debt Relative to GSP
/0 Comments/in Blog, Blog: Better Government, Blog: Economy, Blog: Pensions, Blog: Transparency, News, Transparency /by Joseph StaruskiMassachusetts has more debt than any New England state. Can we afford to pay it off or will we hand it down to future generations?
Chet Manikantan: Innovation Machine
/in Economic Opportunity, Featured, JobMakers /by Editorial StaffThis week on JobMakers, host Denzil Mohammed talks with Chet Manikantan, immigrant from India and founder of Aegis Studios, which builds crypto games. Chet was founder of a string of companies and a partner at two venture firms, but he was almost denied the opportunity to innovate and create jobs in the U.S. by our outdated immigration system, if not for a chance encounter that led to a workaround for select foreign-born entrepreneurs. And he’s keenly aware and grateful that this country gave him what he needed to succeed, as you’ll learn in this week’s JobMakers podcast.
New Hampshire Tax Burden Dramatically Less than Massachusetts
/0 Comments/in Better Government, Blog, Blog: Better Government, Blog: Economy, Blog: Transparency, News, Transparency /by Joseph StaruskiNew Hampshire collects less than half the amount of taxes per capita as Massachusetts. How do they do it, and which strategy produces better outcomes?