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We beat Rhode Island and New Hampshire

March 5, 2008
By Steve Poftak
But that’s about it. In the latest Governing Magazine assessment of state management, Massachusetts finished 48th out of 50. In particular, our performance on infrastructure was quite poor, meriting just a D+ grade, but you may have already heard about that.

A tip of the pen to the redoubtable Robert David Sullivan of Beyond Red & Blue for the point about infrastructure.

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