Gov. Charlie Baker reveals his Tea Bagger roots with MBTA solutions.....
Kristen Lepore poo-poos short-changed state services, House Minority Leader Brad Jones, R-North Reading targets Welfare Recipients instead of real solutions
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By Mike Deehan and Sara Brown
WHAT'S UP MONDAY
Gov. Charlie Baker is bringing in MBTA commuters to help push his plan to reform the agency with a financial control board. That's right: real friggin' people. And I thought campaign season was over..... Boston City Hall has a hearing on the 2024 Olympics bid while No Boston Olympics hosts a forum in the evening.... Town and city treasurers and collectors will be all up in the State House to lobby today... Speaker DeLeo and SP Stan Rosenberg meet with Baker later this afternoon. Expect perhaps some talk about the Senate's own plan to reshape the MBTA that's quite different from the bill put forward by the guv.
Lepore: Some services will have to be 'delivered differently'
Administration and Finance Secretary Kristen Lepore started her job in a full sprint - first confronting a midyear budget gap of $760 million, and then an even bigger hole to fill in building the FY 2016 budget. A key component of the $38 billion budget is the plan to reduce the state workforce through the early retirement of up to 5,000 state workers - the target is at least 4,500 workers for $170 million in savings. She faces skeptics who worry state services will suffer, and made it clear that the Baker Administration is taking a hard look at how each department delivers those services. She sat down with MASSterList publisher George Donnelly earlier this month to talk about headcounts, regulations, and just how much she loves her job. - http://www.massterlist.com/?p=12068 |
Warren's success is Obama's loss
The Globe's Washington bureau delivers a breakdown of what Sen. Elizabeth Warren's been up to in Congress: beating the White House, amassing enormous influence, pushing Senate dems to the left and managing not to look like a nutjob while doing it. - http://bit.ly/1KfB7sW
Healey looking into the Massachusetts Health Connector website
Attorney General Maura Healey is investigating the software developer that created the failed website for the Massachusetts Health Connector. Healey is starting where her predecessor, Martha Coakley, left off. "The former attorney general, Martha Coakley, revealed last year that she was looking into whether CGI sought payment for services it did not deliver, in an investigation under the False Claims Act, a civil statute. The act allows the attorney general to recover money spent by the state as a result of false or misleading statements and to collect penalties, fees, and costs for fraudulent claims." And if the AG finds wrongdoing, there could be a lawsuit, the Boston Globe reports. - http://bit.ly/1PQBGaO
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War on Worcester graffiti
Worcester Sheriff Lew Evangelidis has a sweet new truck that blasts graffiti off buildings, reports the Telegram: "With the help of a powerful machine, some crushed walnut shells and a crew of inmates, Sheriff Lewis G. Evangelidis hopes to remove unwanted graffiti from walls in Worcester and surrounding towns." - http://bit.ly/1Hn3IIZ
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Lawmakers consider requiring welfare recipients to be fingerprinted
House lawmakers are considering having welfare recipients be fingerprinted to receive benefits. The belief is that this will help end fraud in the system. "House Minority Leader Brad Jones, R-North Reading, wants the state Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Transitional Assistance, which oversee welfare benefits, to study the use of fingerprints and other biometric identifiers to deter fraud. House lawmakers voted last week to include a pilot project in the upcoming state budget. Jones said the technology could save millions of dollars by preventing individuals from claiming benefits for which they don't qualify - a problem highlighted by two recent scathing state audits," The Daily News of Newburyport reported. "We're losing millions of dollars a year to people who are gaming the welfare system," Jones said to The Daily News of Newburyport. - http://bit.ly/1JsroxY
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BIRTHDAYS: Rep. Marc Lombardo and Boston Centers for Youth & Families A&F director Steve Bickerton.
Romney says he has advice for Boston 2024
Former Gov. Mitt Romney said he is willing to give advice to the Boston 2024 Summer Olympics bid. Asked yesterday for any advice he'd have for Boston 2024, Romney responded, "I'm sure I'll pass some ideas along. But that's a great group and I wish them well," Romney said before stepping into a private room after delivering the commencement address at Saint Anselm College," the Boston Herald reported. In other news, Mitt Romney is alive and seemingly not dying of internal injuries sustained while boxing Evander Holyfield. - http://bit.ly/1ILzml0
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