Nothing like a tragedy to get Congress to open the spigot.
Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Tuesday hailed Senate passage of an amendment to an appropriations bill providing an additional $1 billion for bridge repairs. The vote was 60-33 and in the wake of last month’s I-35 bridge collapse in Minnesota in which 13 people were [...]
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An increase in the meals tax may not be a matter of local option after all.
Haverhill Mayor James Fiorentini said Monday night that the Patrick administration’s new strategy may be to impose a statewide tax increase to fund local services.
Speaking at a candidates’ forum sponsored by Team Haverhill, the local chapter of the League of [...]
So, is Niki Tsongas running for president or for Congress? Apparently her handlers have instructed her to join the presidential field, since being “on message” for her means reciting at every public gathering that the contest for the 5th Congressional District in Massachusetts has morphed into “a referendum on the presidency of George W. Bush.”
There [...]
Eagle-Tribune columnist Barbara Anderson offers her recommended fall reading list this week.
Among the books she’s looking forward to is WBZ-TV political analyst Jon Keller’s “The Bluest State,” which advance publicity touts as a look at how Massachusetts has come to be characterized by:
addiction to tax revenues and a raging edifice complex couched in disrespect to [...]
I’ve long wondered whether the reason Lawrence has lagged behind Lowell in terms of its revitalization is that the former has a weak-mayor form of government while the latter is run by a professional city manager.
The charter in Lawrence hinders the mayor’s ability to make the tough decisions that are sometimes necessary to move a [...]
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