Monday, March 21, 2016
By Jay Fitzgerald and Sara Brown
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Today: Snowy roads, Government Center T stop re-opens, economic development
Be careful out there. Commuters this morning are dealing with a first-day-of-spring snowstorm that's expected to dump a half foot of the white stuff on the Greater Boston area. Boston Public Schools have been cancelled for the day. "We ask drivers to leave extra time in the morning and to use extra caution on the roads," said a tweet from the official City of Boston account, the Globe reports.http://bit.ly/1Rw4Dcg
Gov. Charlie Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, MassDOT Secretary Stephanie Pollack and MBTA General Manager Frank DePaola plan to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the re-opening of the Government Center MBTA station, Government Center MBTA Station, Cambridge Street, 11:30 a.m.
The Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies holds a public hearing on the governor's $918 million economic development plan and other bills, the Venture Development Center, UMass-Boston, Wheatley Hall, 3rd Floor, 100 Morrissey Blvd., 12 p.m.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson delivers a public address at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge, 6 p.m.
Transportation Secretary Pollack speaks with reporters following a meeting with Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia and others on the status of MassDOT projects, Fall River City Hall, One Government Center, South Main/South Frontage Road, 4 p.m.
It was a St. Patrick's Day Groan Fest in Southie
The jokes were worse than ever at the annual St. Patrick's Day breakfast in Southie on Sunday, the Globe's David Scharfenberg reports. Yes, it was a lot of muffled laughs and uneasy groans, agrees theHerald's Laurel Sweet. Well, sometimes bad is good, sort of like a bad pun or ... bad jokes at an Irish breakfast. The St. Pats parade also went off well yesterday, despite the usual pre-parade controversies.
Lewis says 'no' to marijuana legalization
Senator Jason M. Lewis, chair of the special legislative committee on marijuana, is now openly opposing the November ballot question that asks voters to legalize marijuana use in Massachusetts. Lewis argues that legalization would increase the accessibility of marijuana for youth and bolster a perception among kids that pot is safe to use, the Globe's Joshua Miller reports. http://bit.ly/1XGSI04
Voter's last wish: Oppose Trump The obituary of Lynn resident Alba Keus, who died last week at the age of 86, contained a special request, Nik DeCosta-Klipa of Boston.com reports. Rather than sending flowers to her family, "Alba's request would be that you do not vote for Donald Trump."http://bit.ly/1WC22lD
Trump goes after Liz Warren
Speaking of Trump, yet another Massachusetts politician has taken center stage in this year's crazy presidential race - and it's not Mitt Romney this time. Instead, Donald Trump is now sparring with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who last week criticized the likely GOP nominee as "a bigger, uglier threat every day." Over the weekend, Trump hit back during an interview with the NYT's Maureen Dowd. "She's got about as much Indian blood as I have. Her whole life was based on a fraud," Trump said, referring to Warren's controversial and long-ago Indian-heritage claims. "She got into Harvard and all that because she said she was a minority." http://nyti.ms/1S06ff5
The Herald's Hillary Chabot wonders if Warren is up to the task of taking on Trump. "Force Warren to think on her feet - or worse, face a critical, savvy opponent like Trump - and we'll likely see the same deer-in-the-headlights act we witnessed last week, when Warren stumbled to address relatively tame questioning from Charlie Rose and Norah O'Donnell of 'CBS This Morning.'" http://bit.ly/21Dc6vP
In other local Trump news, Ronald Merullo writes in the Globe that he has no intention of voting for Trump, but he does pen one of the best explanations for Trump's appeal to so many. And, no, it's not solely about racism or anger. It's about working-class humiliation, Merullo writes. If you regularly simplify Trump's supporters as "angry white males," you might want to read this one. http://bit.ly/22yr7l2
GOP scrambles to develop anti-Trump plans -- and back-up plans
There's an old military saying: No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Republicans are finding this out the hard way with all their plans to stop Donald Trump. Whenever they draw lines in the sand, he blows right past them.
The latest line in the sand: The April 5 primary in Wisconsin. But Republican leaders also have back-up plans, just in case, in New York, California and other contests, reports the NYT's Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin. Some conservatives are even preparing doomsday plans: A third-party candidacy in November, perhaps led by former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn or former Texas Gov. Rick Perry. http://nyti.ms/1U0Uefl
The Herald's Adriana Cohen won't take part in any riots if a front-runner Trump is denied the nomination at a brokered GOP convention, but she does say she'll leave the Republican Party. http://bit.ly/1pEIRNU
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Regan vs. Suffolk: The story that keeps on giving
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Our state's public defenders are denied their right to form a union. Why? Because they were left out of the state collective bargaining law.
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Mass. child-abuse deaths fell in 2014 New data show a sharp drop in the number of children who died in Massachusetts due to abuse and neglect in 2014, according to a Globe story penned by Jennifer McKim of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. While 39 children died of maltreatment in 2013 and 22 in 2014, it's not clear whether the decline is a result of reforms in the state's child welfare agencies. http://bit.ly/1R9R1rw
Was highway exit re-numbering supposed to be a surprise?A federally mandated plan to renumber highway exits according to their mile markers has been kept out of public view even as it is expected to be rolled out this spring, Elaine Thompson of the Telegram & Gazette reports. The T&G used records requests to get information about the state's efforts to meet the mandate after its attempts to get information from the Department of Transportation went nowhere.http://bit.ly/1Zh2G9G
Enterprise, Patriot Ledger get new editorsTwo of the largest newspaper south of Boston have new leadership. Lisa Strattan has been named executive editor of The Patriot Ledger and The Enterprise and Ken Johnson will become managing editor of the Ledger, Mark Olivieri, publisher of both papers announced on Friday. The changes came just days after parent company GateHouse Media announced it would close its Somerville newsroom.http://bit.ly/22ym3gB
Lawmaker listed among Springfield tax delinquents
Rep. Benjamin Swan was among those that the city of Springfield claims owed past-due property taxes, Peter Goonan of MassLive reports. The annual list showed Swan owed $527.44 for a parking lot he owns and the lawmaker told Goonan the bill slipped past him and that he'd pay the overdue bill immediately. Overall, there were fewer property tax delinquents and less money owed to the city than in past years. http://bit.ly/1RevJWm
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