by Maureen Turner | Aug 10, 2010 | News
Almost a year after Springfield voters approved a ballot question to extend that city’s mayoral term from two years to four, city councilors are bracing themselves to take up an assuredly more contentious follow-up issue: whether the mayor’s salary should...
by Maureen Turner | Aug 10, 2010 | News
Last Friday, Gov. Deval Patrick signed a bill that will bring long-awaited reforms to the criminal justice system in Massachusetts, including significant changes to the Criminal Offender Record Information, or CORI, system. At the signing, Patrick was surrounded by...
by Maureen Turner | Aug 12, 2010 | News
There’s a long list of departments within the Massachusetts state government that deal with food in one way or another—those concerned with agricultural policy, environmental protection, business and commerce, public health, social service programs for the...
by Jim Cabral | Aug 12, 2010 | News
The disaster engendered by the explosion and subsequent hemorrhaging of British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has thrust energy costs—economic and environmental—back into the public discourse in a way not seen since...
by Stephanie Kraft | Aug 12, 2010 | News
It’s official: the FBI can exercise surveillance over people even when there is no evidence or particular suspicion that a crime has been, is being or will be committed. This came recently from the top cop himself: FBI director Robert Mueller. Mueller was...
