AG Healey should form independent commission to investigate the failed agreement Last week in the first installment of this two-part column, I ran through the many problems with the January 2016 deal between General Electric, the city of Boston, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that has now collapsed for all intents and purposes. […]
THE FALL OF THE GE BOSTON DEAL, PART I
The official narrative and the real story Readers might feel that this should be a time for me to take a victory lap. The GE Boston deal that I criticized from the moment it was made public in January 2016 has crashed to Earth a bit over three years later. The now-failing multinational […]
JOB BLOWS: A MAN, A MISSION, A MODERN MASSACHUSETTS UNEMPLOYMENT ODYSSEY
Clearly, I thought, the state’s joke of an unemployment system has been covered and gutted. But it hasn’t been gutted enough.
BROKEN RECORDS: MASS PUBLIC RECORDS LAWS MAY BE ABOUT TO GET MUCH, MUCH WORSE
The bill still needs to go before the Senate, which will likely change it yet again, so there’s still hope that it will be fixed. But after seeing how the bill was devastated by the House, the future is unpredictable.
WALL JOB: THE PALM RESTAURANT IS LOOKING FOR A NEW RESIDENT ARTIST
Those chosen will then compete in a draw-off at the Palm downtown on a date TBD, with the winner landing the resident artist gig…to handle any of the 6-12 faces per month the Palm will be assigning at $65/face. Do the math.
APPARENT HORIZON: LABOR BLUES
It has been decades since the Democratic Party has been reliably pro-labor—which means that neither major party genuinely supports American workers in this era.
PRAYER FOR THE COMMON WEALTH
A wish list for Governor Baker …
