A long about June, the “housing bubble” became big news nationally. In the same week, a cover story in Time (HOME $WEET HOME) focused attention on the “blistering” US real estate market and a New York Times Week in Review piece took the story global, noting the run-up of housing prices in coastal cities and […]
Ian Bowles
Posted inPolitics
Brave new world
The spate of sales of large local companies to out-of-state owners has been the topic of water cooler conversation for months now. Recent acquisitions of three prominent Boston-based companies are producing newfound concern about the loss of local identity. As the civic spotlight scans for new people and entities to take their place, one wonders, […]
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Connecting the dots
Every once in a while, I come across people who know about CommonWealth, but have no idea it is published by MassINC. Others know full well that CommonWealth is a MassINC publication, but wonder why the magazine doesn’t focus on our research findings. Both sorts of confusion can be explained by the way MassINC does […]
Posted inHealth Care
To your health
Health care is the elephant in the room. For individuals, nothing is more intensely personal, more urgent, and more closely linked to self-esteem and dignity than the ability to get the health care they need when they need it. For state government, health care finance muscles its way to center stage in deliberations over budgetary […]