Today: Obama to announce Supreme Court pick, MBTA and DOT budget meetings, 'All bills must move' day
BREAKING: Obama to announce Supreme Court pick at 11 a.m.The Associated Press, via the Globe, is reporting that President Obama has made up his mind about a new Supreme Court nominee and plans to announce the pick at 11 a.m. Breaking. http://bit.ly/1VbZn3z
It's 'Joint Rule 10' day on Beacon Hill, when House and Senate committees must report out bills filed between January 2015 and mid-February.
The MBTA's Fiscal and Management Control Board meets to approve the T budget at MassDOT, 10 Park Plaza, second floor, Boston, 11 a.m.
The MBTA control board meets with the Mass. Department of Transportation Board of Directors, 10 Park Plaza, second floor, 1 p.m.
Attorney General Maura Healey will be the keynote speaker at the Associated Press andNew England Society of News Editors editorial summit to discuss the opiate crisis. Northeastern University, Barletta Hall, 370 Common St., Dedham, 9 a.m.
It's not complicated: Trump and Clinton won big last nightThe armchair analysis for the Dem primary results last night is rather straightforward: Hillary Clinton won big, impressively nabbing four of five primaries yesterday (Missouri is still too close to call). It wasn't quite a TKO, but Bernie Sanders got pounded.
The armchair analysis isn't quite as simple for the Republicans, but it's also not complicated: Trump won North Carolina, Illinois and Florida; he knocked out the hapless Marco Rubio, who suspended his campaign; Kasich won Ohio, but is still considered a long shot; Ted "Frank Underwood" Cruz crept a little closer to his much desired mano-a-mano, stop-Trump-at-all-costs showdown, but he did it by failing to win the big ones yesterday and he's still loathed by many Republicans.
One can get dizzy reading and listening to all the scenarios showing Cruz and Kasich doing this and that and siphoning delegates away from Trump, pushing the GOP to a brokered convention this summer, etc. etc. It's all possible. But WaPo's Dan Balz puts it succinctly about The Donald and Clinton: "The two front-runners continued what has become an inexorable march to their party's presidential nominations and a general election matchup that was unimagined when the campaign began." http://wapo.st/1RNJ7jZ
'The party of Reagan is no more'
It's pretty amazing that Time magazine is still around, let alone publishing impressive essays, such as this one from Peter Wehner, a long-time Republican who bemoans the party's ideological puritanism that opened the way for Trumpmania: "Trump's attempt at a hostile takeover is not a thunderclap on a cloudless day. It was years in the making. And when the mantle worn by Reagan might be settling on the likes of Trump, this end-of-an-era moment demands that we reflect on what has happened to our Republican Party."http://ti.me/1M7cUYe
DOR commissioner Mark Nunnelly off to head new IT agency
Gov. Charlie Baker, who has somewhat uncomfortably allowed Department of Revenue commissioner Mark E. Nunnelly to serve on paid corporate boards, has reassigned Nunnelly to head the newly created MassIT, the Globe's Frank Phillips reports. http://bit.ly/1QXjmQk
House lawmakers break ranks on solar caps
A group of 100 representatives is pushing for a compromise on solar energy legislation, breaking with House leadership to urge a conference committee to support a bill that more closely resembles the Senate's approach, Bruce Mohl of CommonWealth magazine reports. All but two of the 100 had previously supported the House approach last year while the conference committee has been stuck on the issue of how much to raise the net metering credit cap since November. http://bit.ly/1RkuNVQ
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Mapping system tracks political leanings of towns by donations
Via BostInno's Olivia Vanni, RentHop, a New York real estate platform, has digitally dug into the Federal Election Commission's database to come up with a way to find out how much each town and even neighborhood in Greater Boston gave to presidential candidates, as of Feb. 26. Samples: Harvard-West Cambridge went big for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders (no surprise); Swampscott for Marco Rubio (Charlie Baker's hometown); South Hamilton for Ted Cruz (who would have thought?); and Allston for The Donald (followed by Norwood and Marlborough). FYI: We had trouble getting the interactive map, well, to be interactive, but scroll down for charts. http://bit.ly/1pnJrib
The length of a parade route as a First Amendment right?A federal judge ruled Tuesday that security concerns raised by the city of Boston had to fall in line behind the First Amendment rights of the organizers of the St. Patricks Day Parade, which will now follow its original, longer route on Sunday, Milton Valencia of the Globe reports. Organizers argued the decision to shorten the route was politically motivated but Boston Police Commissioner said in court that he requested the shorter route as "strictly a public safety decision," with a shorter parade meaning less time for participants and spectators to become intoxicated and unruly. http://bit.ly/1psLhPE
'Wynn Boston Harbor' eyes 2019 opening
Steve Wynn unveiled a new name-'Wynn Boston Harbor' -a higher price tag ($2 billion) and a possible summer 2019 opening date for his glittering Everett resort casino, the Globe's Mark Arsenault reports. Wynn unveiled new models of the casino exterior and interior and called the environmental permit challenge launched by the city of Somerville "an irritation" that would not stop construction, which he said is now scheduled to begin in July.http://bit.ly/1RMeUSh
MassLive's Gintautas Dumcius has plenty of color from the Wynn presser, including the mogul saying there's "zero" chance that Somerville will get more mitigation funds, Wynn's obvious pride in a floral carousel feature of the resort and the fact that the casino lobby will feature a $28 million Popeye sculpture by artist Jeff Koons. http://bit.ly/22krXlc
Globe's Crux to merge with Knights of Columbus site
The Boston Globe's Catholic-news focused web site, Crux, will not shut down after the Knights of Columbus stepped in and said it would merge the site with its own, Greg Ryan reports in the Boston Business Journal. Crux will be blended into Catholic Pulse and two of the five staffers from the Globe's operation, including Crux editor John Allen Jr., will join the new enterprise. http://bit.ly/22krXlc
Will the T outsource to Uber?
The MBTA could outsource some of its specialized services to ride-hailing businesses, such as Uber and Lyft, as the T continues to look for ways to wring savings out of its $2 billion budget, Isaiah Thompson of WGBH reports. The budget still contains a structural deficit and one option on the table is outsourcing the T's The Ride service. http://bit.ly/1WpTI8l
The latest hiring perk of all perks: Employers paying off student loan debts
More than 10 percent of Fidelity Investments' employees, or nearly 5,000 people, have enlisted in the mutual fund company's new program to help workers pay back their student loans, Greg Ryan writes in the Boston Business Journal. Boston's Natixis Global started a similar program earlier this year. http://bit.ly/1Rm3K6h
Deal reached to eliminate license suspension for many drug offendersA legislative conference committee has reached an agreement that would end the practice of automatically suspending the license of anyone convicted of most drug crimes in Massachusetts, even if the crime was unrelated to driving, MassLive's Shira Schoenberg reports. But it would keep a five-year license suspension in place for anyone convicted of trafficking in cocaine, fentanyl, heroin or other opiates.http://bit.ly/1Rm3GmP
Lawmakers eye student sex surveysLegislation on Beacon Hill would require schools receive parental consent before surveying elementary and high school students on potentially controversial issues such as sex and drug use, Christian Wade reports in the Eagle-Tribune. A bill sponsored by Rep. Betty Poirier, a North Attleboro Republican, filed after parental outcry over a survey in Andover last year, would require that parents review such surveys before they are presented to students. http://bit.ly/1RNBkmb
Worcester refugee approach could become model
A pilot program to deliver services to refugees relocating to Worcester from around the world could become a model followed around the country, Cyrus Moulton reports in the Telegram & Gazette. The Partnership for Refugee Wellness is being funded with a grant from the Health Foundation of Central Massachusetts and will expose arriving refugees to a host of public and private agencies providing legal, education and health care support. http://bit.ly/1PbtTDs
Globe columnist Farah Stockman bids farewell to Boston
The Globe's Farah Stockman pens a "love letter to Boston" as she heads off to the New York Times. She nails it with this line: "It hasn't always been easy to be with you, Boston. Admit it. You've got your stodgy side. What other major city in America has banned Happy Hour?" But read on for all the things she cherishes about Boston. Good luck to Farah.http://bit.ly/1YZCCA3
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