The state should focus on transforming the closed hospital sites into community centers providing some health care but also housing, education, and employment training.Â
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AG’s gig driver settlement is a good start, but only a start
The Massachusetts settlement with Uber and Lyft marks a substantial improvement over the companies’ withdrawn ballot measure. But the state and the voters can and should do more to help gig drivers.
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Doctors’ diagnosis on retail electricity misses the mark
The op-ed raises valid concerns about some suppliers’ unethical practices and rightly calls for consumer protection. RESA and its members agree. Where we differ is labeling an entire industry as bad actors. Taking away all licenses, rather than taking away the licenses of the bad actors, is overkill. More importantly, it dismisses the value of a competitive market.
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Let’s start the conversation about congestion pricing
We must remember the $3.2 billion a year lost by Boston-area drivers to congestion.
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Restore the endowment match for community colleges
The budget has never been more generous to these colleges in terms of providing MassEducate, the free community college plan. But cutting this low-cost, high-impact match program is unnecessary and counterproductive.
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Don’t run my retail electricity company out of business
Massachusetts has a competitive energy market with many private market participants driving the state forward offering programs that compete with the utilities.
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Misguided amendment would give more power to Ticketmaster
The House passed its much larger economic development bill and included an amended version of the original legislation. This amended version could do more harm than good.
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Time for action on PFAS on Beacon Hill
The bill tackles PFAS at its source by banning PFAS in firefighting foam, firefighter personal protective equipment, and consumer products like food packaging, children’s products, personal care products, furniture, textiles, and cookware.
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Some things our 248-year-old democracy and South Africa’s 30-year-young democracy might learn from one another
South Africa and the United States are both blessed with incredible natural and physical assets and resources, but also a still-unresolved, deeply troubled history with apartheid and slavery. Both have the capacity to thrive but are failing to deliver on their promise, largely due to ineffective, corrupt or dysfunctional government and poor governance.  Â
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Massachusetts must address our maternal health crisis
Massachusetts is in a maternal health crisis, despite being a bastion of high-end medical care. Pending legislation could go a long way toward addressing the problems.