Gov. Charlie Baker joins former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry and Rep. Nick Collins in the signing of bill conveying land at East First Street in South Boston, Thomas J. Butler Freight Corridor and Memorial Park, State House, Room 360, 12:30 p.m.
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| Moonlighting at City Hall |
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As if Mayor Walsh needed more City Hall headaches, it turns out that Carl Hyman, a longtime senior property manager at the city’s Department of Neighborhood Development, has been moonlighting on the side for years now, reports the Globe’s Astead Herndon. Since the late 1990s, Hyman and a former city employee, Harold Raymond, have led a real estate firm named Melbourne Street Partners, which has bought, developed, and sold properties in areas that Hyman’s agency has previously “helped nurture.” And in 2000, the city agency also awarded Raymond discounted Roxbury public property – with Hyman, who oversees unused city property, never disclosing that Raymond was his business partner, Herndon reports.
It’s all perfectly legal, say neighborhood development officials and an attorney for the company. Hey, it’s just a little moonlighting on the side. As they say: Move along, folks. Nothing here to see. Move along, please ...
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| Republican presidential blues |
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The Globe’s Beth Healy has a piece this morning on how many members of Greater Boston’s business community, which normally tilts right when it comes to fundraising and voting, just can’t bring themselves to support GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, let alone Democrat Hillary Clinton. “I don’t worry about Donald Trump launching a nuclear missile or wreaking havoc for Wall Street,’’ said Scott Sperling, co-president of Thomas H. Lee Partners in Boston. But he’s not exactly crazy about some of Trump’s recent comments either. “It’s not my style, and I think it’s one of the things that makes him someone that lots of people can’t support,” said Sperling.
Meanwhile, MassLive’s Shira Schoenberg reports how Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican who has refused to endorse Trump, is basically saying “I told you so’” about both Trump and Clinton. "I said I think in March I thought Secretary Clinton had some trouble with believability and Donald Trump had some issues with respect to his temperament, and I think both of them have managed to live up to my concerns on that one," Baker told reporters on Wednesday. "I find the whole thing enormously disappointing." |
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| Big day for economic development – in more ways than one |
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How’s this for timing: On the very day Gov. Baker signed a nearly $1 billion economic development bill that he and his staff ushered through the Legislature, news leaks out that his economic development czar, Jay Ash, has applied for a job to be the next city manager of Cambridge, reports SHNS’s Matt Murphy at CommonWealth magazine. If Ash gets the Cambridge post, it would be the Baker administration’s first high-level cabinet departure since Baker took office in 2015. Ash, a Democrat, is the former city manager of Chelsea.
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| Everett casino unveils $1 billion in construction bid opportunities |
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And also on the same day Baker was signing the nearly $1 billion economic development bill, Suffolk Construction was issuing $1 billion worth of subcontracting bids for the giant Wynn casino project in Everett, reports Catherine Carlock at the Boston Business Journal. Wynn Resorts said in an announcement Wednesday that Suffolk’s bid package is “among the highest ever issued for any private, union-built, single-phase development in the history of Massachusetts.” To say the least, it’s an amazing figure.
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| Yes, Marty Walsh briefly tried to save the IndyCar race |
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Despite denials by his staff, Mayor Marty Walsh is now acknowledging that he did, in fact, try to rescue the Boston IndyCar race after its collapse, even meeting with the event sponsor’s CEO to try to move the race to Suffolk Downs from the Seaport District, the Herald’s Joe Battenfeld reports.
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| Herb Chambers details Morrissey plans |
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Car magnate Herb Chambers detailed revised plans for a Land Rover and Jaguar dealership on Morrissey Boulevard and says his project is independent of plans for the sprawling Boston Globe headquarters property just next door, according to a piece by Jennifer Smith of the Dorchester Reporter. But Chambers also indicated he would be willing to press pause on development of his four-story glass dealership capable of holding 659 cars if the soon-to-be new owners of the Globe property wanted to work with him.
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| Baker goes three for three with Budd’s SJC confirmation |
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Gov. Baker’s third and last nominee to the Supreme Judicial Court, Kimberly Budd, won unanimous confirmation yesterday, despite last-minute objections from a Taunton Republican that she had made “ideological statements” and was “unfit” to serve on the court. Members of the Governor’s Council obviously disagreed with that assessment. "(Budd) has been a law and order judge on the Superior Court, and she will continue to be a law and order judge on the Massachusetts Supreme Court," Councilor Jennie Caissie said yesterday, as reported by SHNS’s Katie Lannan at Wicked Local. The vote followed the council's unanimous confirmations earlier this summer of judges Frank Gaziano and David Lowy, whose nominations Baker announced with Budd's in June.
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| SJC eases access to court records |
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A month after sparking an outcry by limiting access to court data, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has given preliminary approval to new rules making it easier for the public to access some criminal records, Todd Wallack of the Globe reports. The new rules will allow the public to learn the status of criminal cases if they have a docket number, but will not allow searching by defendant name only in person at court houses. The new rules also allow members of the public to take photos of court documents to avoid paying the $1-per-page copying fee.
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| Prestige doesn’t pay: Worcester Polytech kids makes more than Harvard and Tufts grads |
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Granted, Harvard and Tufts universities produce a lot of English, history, political science and other liberal arts majors who are often destined for a few post-graduation months (and even years) of underemployment and crashing on friends’ couches. But like BostInno’s Olivia Vanni, we were still surprised by the results of a SmartAsset survey that shows Worcester Polytech grads with higher starting pay than those at Harvard, Tufts, Northeastern etc. Only MIT grads averaged more. We’re impressed.
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| Fairhaven passes Pokemon-Go limits |
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The SouthCoast town of Fairhaven has limited parking and taken other steps in the hopes of minimizing damage to a historic fort being overrun by hordes of Pokemon Go players, Sandy Quadros Bowles reports in the Standard-Times. The town also plans to reach out to the game’s maker to see how it can steer players away and asked town counsel to look into whether the town can seek compensation for damage already suffered.
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