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Ash lends insight into Baker administration’s investment strategy
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A TOP BAKER administration official on Thursday shared with lawmakers his philosophical approach to government investing, including a strategy that he said differs from the...
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Helping low-income families out of poverty
BUILDING A PATHWAY that leads out of poverty and into economic self-sufficiency requires hard work, resilience and persistence. However, low-income families will do all it takes to reach economic...
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The politics of patents
THE WAY BOSTON UNIVERSITY President Bob Brown sees it, the Massachusetts economy is fueled by a pipeline of innovation running from the state’s great research universities to start-up companies....
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Lexington lawmaker looks to the people for tax boost
REP. JAY KAUFMAN has been a reliable member of the House Democratic caucus’s progressive wing for more than 20 years. In the 1990s, he was part of a small band of liberal lawmakers who clashed...
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Don’t tax my yogurt
FOR MANY, the new Roche Bros. supermarket in the old Filene’s building at Boston’s Downtown Crossing is manna from heaven. There is a large full-service grocery store in the old Filene’s Basement, and...
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Opportunity gap
Photographs by Frank Curran THE NEW YORK TIMES recently called Robert Putnam the “poet laureate of civil society.” One of a handful of academics known for bringing social science out of the ivory...
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Contracting system isn’t saving money
Photographs by Mark Morelli IT SOUNDED LIKE a good idea at the time. Stung by the enormous cost overruns of the Big Dig and other open-spigot public projects, officials on Beacon Hill wanted to put...
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American Dream in Crisis
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Cabbies defaulting on loans
BOSTON CABBIES GETTING hammered by the booming ride-hailing apps are beginning to show signs of being unable to stay afloat as banks have started to foreclose on delinquent loans they hold for the...
View ArticleThe pushback against T-Day openings
Workers want their lives back. That’s the sentiment behind the campaign to curb retail Thanksgiving Day business. The latest group to jump into the fray is package store owners who don’t want to sell...
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IG condemns BRA-Red Sox deals
MASSACHUSETTS INSPECTOR GENERAL GLENN CUNHA on Monday condemned the procedures the Boston Redevelopment Authority followed in awarding lucrative property easements to the Boston Red Sox in 2013, but...
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Mass. needs paid family and medical leave
WHEN LIZ FREDETTE GAVE BIRTH to her son, she had to go back to work four weeks later because her company offered just a week of paid maternity leave, and she couldn’t afford to go without a paycheck...
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Let’s make Logan Airport a fair wage zone
LOGAN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT is a critical hub in Massachusetts that serves more than 20 million passengers a year and brings in more than $7 billion in economic activity to the area. However, despite...
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Healey proposes fantasy sports regs
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE SAYING THAT HER ONGOING REVIEW of daily fantasy sports games uncovered “a number of significant concerns,” Attorney General Maura Healey on Thursday announced a series of...
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Baker unveils new development approach
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A NEW WORKING GROUP will facilitate the revitalization of the city of Lynn, using expedited permitting and coordinating development of sites with cross-jurisdictional issues,...
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S&P lowers Mass. outlook to negative
STANDARD & POOR’S left the credit rating of the state of Massachusetts intact on Monday but changed its outlook for the state from stable to negative because of concerns about the use of rainy day...
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Baker, Patrick administrations play blame game
THE BAKER AND PATRICK ADMINISTRATIONS are pointing the finger at each other in the wake of a bond rating agency’s decision to change its financial outlook for Massachusetts from stable to negative....
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Millionaire’s tax could raise extra $2.2b
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE BAY STATE MILLIONAIRES could pay as much as $2.2 billion in additional state income taxes under a proposal to tax some of the state’s wealthiest individuals and families at a...
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Nearly 99,000 clean energy jobs in MA
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE CLEAN ENERGY SECTOR now employs nearly 99,000 workers in Massachusetts, after five consecutive years of growth, according to a report out Tuesday from the Massachusetts...
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Combating inequality with the ballot
NEXT YEAR, THOUSANDS of residents across the Commonwealth will head to the polls to cast their vote in the November election. They will make their voices heard on a variety of issues, perhaps none more...
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