as the economy slowly starts to recover, three of New England’s busiest airports are well-positioned for strong, complementary growth. Boston’s Logan International Airport is already posting passenger gains. T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island, and Manchester–Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire are still losing passengers, but analysts say they should also rebound in the […]
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Transparency provision defeated
By Bruce Mohl The Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed an overhaul of the state’s economic development agencies, but rejected by a 21-13 vote a measure that would have required greater public disclosure of companies receiving state subsidies and how many jobs they are creating with them. The transparency issue has been a focus for CommonWealth magazine, […]
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Worcester Regional Airport: back from the brink … again?
By Gabrielle Gurley Worcester has its share of municipal headaches, but by this summer city officials will have one less: Worcester Regional Airport. Under the transportation reforms signed into law last year, the Massport, which has been operating the facility for more than a decade, is set buy the airport from the city. The two […]
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Board games at MassDOT
By Gabrielle Gurley How long will the charade of trying to schedule the Massachusetts Transportation Department’s board of directors to appear before the Joint Transportation Committee continue? Indefinitely, it seems. Or until the Legislature kicks MassDOT where it lives, in the budget. All of the members of the board were able to make the announced […]
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Crazy like a fox? Christy Mihos’s big RMV idea
By Gabrielle Gurley With all eyes on the big dogs in the governor’s race, the underdog can afford to go out on a limb. Christy Mihos, who is challenging Charles Baker for the Republican nod, has proposed relocating Registries of Motor Vehicles to city and town halls, all 351 of them. (Baker suggested allowing some […]
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The Monitor’s web-first approach
Nearly one year after the newspaper presses stopped rolling at The Christian Science Monitor, editor John Yemma continues to fine-tune the 102-year-old international news outlet’s transformation from a daily into what he calls a “web-first” publication. “The biggest lesson to me of having a ‘web-first’ newsroom is that you begin to think more like some […]
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Are two jobs in Lawrence better than one?
By Gabrielle Gurley Rep. William Lantigua thinks so. Elected mayor of Lawrence last fall, the Democrat is hanging on to his House seat for dear life. And no one — not Gov. Deval Patrick nor any of his Beacon Hill colleagues — has yet been able to convince Latingua otherwise, even with his city’s finances […]
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MBTA employees allege discrimination
<!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:””; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –> Mel King, the Boston civil rights activist and former mayoral candidate, asked the MBTA Board of Directors on Wednesday to immediately address […]
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Western Mass beats South Coast for rail funds
By Gabrielle Gurley Bay State transportation officials continue to throw everything they’ve got into South Coast Rail , but the feds took a pass, deciding that three western New England intercity rail projects were more worthy. Connecticut landed $40 million to build a second set of tracks between New Haven, Hartford and through to Springfield […]
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All aboard
Sen. Steven Baddour, the co-chair of the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Transportation, was ticked off. The five members of the new Massachusetts Department of Transportation board of directors had been invited to appear before a November oversight hearing called by the committee. Only one showed up. The Methuen Democrat made it clear he wasn’t happy. […]