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MassINC presents: "Next Stop, Massachusetts"
New report calls for fresh approach to transportation
financing
A new strategy paper
released today by MassINC outlines models for raising revenue to
support statewide investments in transportation. The paper, entitled “Next
Stop,
Massachusetts:
Strategies
to Build the Bay State’s Transportation
Future and Keep our Economy Moving” provides new thinking such as
regionalizing multi-modal systems that support local economies.
The report asserts
that competition among transportation advocates and unsustainable
financing strategies, such as overreliance on debt, has led to
underinvestment in the Bay State’s transportation infrastructure across
all modes. Despite years of independent reports sounding the alarm,
transportation lacks a broad base of support, and the public is not
adequately informed about transportation infrastructure’s vital role in
this increasingly congested state. Read
more.
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Ten months
after his election, US Sen. Scott Brown continues to fascinate. At a
post-election MassINC forum called “What just happened,” the panelists
were split on whether the Democratic sweep in Massachusetts
congressional and statewide races was bad news for Brown. Click
here
for video of the discussion between Boston
Globe columnist Scot Lehigh,
NECN political reporter Alison King, MassINC Polling Group president
Steve Koczela, and CommonWealth editor
Bruce
Mohl.
There was also
some interesting
analysis on why Massachusetts voters broke ranks with
the rest of the country and how political
contributions from out of
state were changing the nature of political contests. The panelists
generally agreed that Republican Charlie Baker alienated
women
voters
in his race against Gov. Deval Patrick, primarily because he was just
too angry, while US Rep. Barney Frank kept
his
anger
in
check until his
victory speech election night.
November
08,
2010
MPG: New election poll frames "What Just Happened"
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Charlie
Baker
only
won
by
14
points
among
unenrolled
voters,
and
lost
the
female
vote
by
a
resounding
24
points,
according
to a special
post-election
voter
survey taken Wednesday, November 3rd by the
MassINC Polling Group.
November
05,
2010
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Issue:
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7
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November
17,
2010
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CW
launches daily news roundup, "The Download"
The
Download
is
the
latest
offering
from CommonWealth magazine
to
help
keep
you informed and save you time. It compiles all the best coverage of
politics and public policy from that day's newspapers, magazines,
broadcasts, and blogs -- complete with analysis to help you make sense
of it all. It's available Monday through Friday on CommonWealth's
CWunbound blog. Sign
up
for
an
RSS
feed to get The Download as soon as
it's available or go to the magazine website to check it out. Don't get
buried by the news; get The Download.
November
16,
2010
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CW takes top
honors in Capitolbeat awards
CommonWealth magazine once again
won top spots within several categories in this year’s Capitolbeat
Awards, a contest for reporting on state and local government.
A joint
investigation by CommonWealth
and Fox 25 on how Boston public employees are taking advantage of an
affordable housing benefit earned the number one spot in the large
market television category. That story and another on the Boston
Redevelopment Authority by CommonWealth
reporters Bruce Mohl and Jack Sullivan earned the in-depth reporting
prize in the magazine category.
CommonWealth was well represented
within “magazine reporting” with Gabrielle Gurley winning the “beat”
category for her work in transportation reporting. Freelance writer
Colman Herman won first place within “single reports” for his story on “Term
Paper
Trafficking,” an investigation into the practice of buying
and selling college papers. In the same category, Alison Lobron won
second place for CommonWealth’s
Spring
2010 cover story, “Ka-Ching”
which
explored how the impact of legal gambling in Pennsylvania
presents lessons for Massachusetts.
November
17,
2010
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Wonk and Roll: Improving economic competitiveness in
Patrick's next term
Now
that
the
election
is
over,
the
real
work
begins.
And
the real work for
Governor Patrick for next year is all about WORK and how we can get
more of it here in Massachusetts.
So at the risk of piling on to the growing mountain of suggestions that
will soon be higher than Mt. Greylock, here are my three for improving
the state’s economic competitiveness.
Thursday,
November
4,
2010
By John Schneider
Wonk
&
Roll:
How
school
choice
can
change
schools
We
get
to
meet
and
work
with
a
lot
of
very
talented
people
here
at
MassINC.
But
over
the
years
(nine
for
me
and
counting)
no
one
has
impressed
me
more
than
Elizabeth
Warren,
named
on
Friday
by
President
Obama
to
lead
the
newly
created
Consumer
Financial
Protection
Agency.
Monday,
October
18,
2010
By
John Schneider
Wonk & Roll: Moving beyond access in higher
education
I
have
just
one
reaction
to
issues
raised
at
this
week’s
fine
“Reinventing
the
University”
conference
sponsored
by
the
New
England
Board
of
Higher
Education
(NEBHE):
How
serious
is higher education
about change? If we are indeed living during a period of
“transformation” in higher education, as Pat Callan asserted at the
NEBHE event, we have a lot of work to do and we need to do it with a
greater sense of urgency.
Friday,
October
8,
2010
By John Schneider
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