Worcester officials are asking the state’s transportation secretary to help ensure that non-stop commuter rail service remains in place for commuters as the T weighs adding more stops on the Heart to Hub rail line, Grant Welker of the Worcester Business Journal reports. "Worcester needs to have nonstop train service that will accommodate a 9-5 work schedule,” Mayor Joseph Petty and City Manager Ed Augustus wrote.
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Healey stands firm against Congressional subpoena |
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The latest in the Healey vs Exxon saga: Attorney General Maura Healey is refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by a Republican-led Congressional committee that’s seeking information about her probe of Exxon Mobil’s climate-change policies, the Globe’s Laura Krantz reports. Basically, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee seems to be siding with Exxon Mobil in this fight, no surprise.
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Group going after Healey over stun guns |
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As she fends off Congressional Republicans over Exxon Mobil matters, Attorney General Maura Healey is facing another old foe. From Evan Lips at New Boston Post: “A trio of citizens looking to overturn the commonwealth’s ban on personal stun guns is taking the state’s most active and vocal firearms enforcement authority figure to federal court — Attorney General Maura Healey.”
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GateHouse has new parent |
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The media company that owns some major regional dailies and more than 100 weekly newspapers in the state has a new Japanese owner, Melissa Hanson of MassLive reports. SoftBank Group said it would merge with Fortress Investment Group in a $3.3. billion deal. Fortress acquired GateHouse media—publisher of the Telegram & Gazette and the Patriot Ledger, among others—in 2015. No word on how the sale might impact the local papers, which reportedly underwent a round of cost-cutting just last summer.
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'Dark Money: Pro-Charter-School Fat Cats’ |
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Writing at his WGBH blog, Maurice Cunningham thinks it’s only a matter of time before the folks at the Office of Campaign and Political Finance pry open the financial books of Families for Excellent Schools, the pro-charter school group that backed the unsuccessful Question 2 initiative. He explains why.
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MGM says no early opening in Springfield |
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MGM Springfield’s president says the downtown casino will open as scheduled in September of 2018, despite the suggestion by some local development officials that it could be ready for action before that, Dan Glaun of MassLive reports. The casino is halfway through construction and the state is ahead of schedule on the reconstruction of a local highway that had pushed the opening back by a year.
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Don’t forget the 1944 German spy landing via U-boat in Maine |
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A MASSterList reader writes in to thank us for the link to yesterday’s Globe piece by Roy Greene on past German U-boat activity off the coast of New England. But the reader adds: “He missed one major incident here in New England—a 1944 German spy landing via U-boat in Hancock Point, ME—which I remember from vacationing up there as a kid. Here’s a link from the Patriot-Ledger if you are interested.” We’re indeed interested and the link is below.
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Sunday public affairs TV |
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This Is New England, NBC Boston Channel 10, 9:30 a.m. With host Latoyia Edwards, this week’s topic: Immigration: Bans, Raids and Our Safety. Guests: Jessica Vaughn, Center for Immigration Studies, Eva Millona, of the Mira Corp., and Todd McGhee, Protecting the Homeland Security
This Week in Business, NECN, 10 a.m. Rockland Trust CEO Chris Oddleifson on the New England economy and the future of the bank; Greater Boston Chamber CEO Jim Rooney on the business response to the Trump Immigration executive order; plus Doug Banks, editor of the Boston Business Journal Editor, on the movie tax remaining in the budget, the South Boston helipad situtation the Lahey-Bermuda bribery allegation and other issues.
CEO Corner, NECN, 10: 30 a.m. Eversource CEO Jim Judge on his goals for the company, the price of power, the power supply and the future of alternative energy sources.
On The Record, WCVB TV Channel 5, 11 a.m. This week’s guest: Dr. Tommy Chang, Superintendent of Boston Public Schools, who speaks with anchor Ed Harding and co-anchor Janet Wu.
CityLine, WCVB TV Channel 5, 12 p.m. With host Karen Holmes Ward, this week’s focus: Boston Arts Leaders in Diversity, Resistance, and Community.
DC Dialogue, NECN, 12:30 p.m. Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone and UMass Medical Chancellor Michael Collins, MD talk about the impact of President Trump’s immigration order; plus, the role of the New England Congressional delegation in the era of Trump.
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