| Happening Today |
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| NOTE: Event delays, cancellations and non-changes |
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Due to the winter storm, many events have been delayed or postponed.
Non-emergency state employees working in executive branch agencies and the Legislature have a delayed start time of 11 a.m. Many schools have cancelled classes for the day.
Please contact institutions and organizations to check on the status of previously planned events.
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| POSTPONED rally |
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A planned morning rally by tipped workers, employers, consumers, the Restaurant Opportunities Center of Boston and the Raise Up Massachusetts coalition has been postponed until this Thursday.
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| MassDOT-MBTA meeting |
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MassDOT Board holds an overlapping meeting with the MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board to go over major projects and discuss finances, 10 Park Plaza, Boston, 11 a.m.
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| Offshore wind contracts |
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Department of Public Utilities holds a public hearing on the competitively solicited long-term contracts for offshore wind and clean energy generation, One South Station, fifth floor, Boston, 12 p.m.
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| Environmentalists tele-conference |
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Environmentalists host a tele-press conference to call for passage of a bill committing the state to 100 percent renewable energy over the next few decades, with Environment Massachusetts state director Ben Hellerstein and Steve Linsky of Climate Action Now among those on the call, Dial in: 1-800-298-6863; Conference ID: 7474344; Password: 36847, 1 p.m.
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| Police recognition |
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Gov. Baker, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, Secretary of Public Safety and Security Daniel Bennett, Massachusetts State Police Richard Colonel McKeon, Lt. Colonel Edward Amodeo and Somerville Police Chief David Fallon recognize the efforts of the Massachusetts State Troopers and Somerville Police Detectives who in January assisted in the capturing of a dangerous federal fugitive who escaped from a Rhode Island detention center, Memorial Hall, 1:30 p.m.
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| Leadership meeting |
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Gov. Baker, Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, House Speaker Robert DeLeo, House Minority Leader Brad Jones, Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr and Lt. Gov. Polito hold a private meeting, Room 360, 2 p.m.
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| POSTPONED transportation discussion |
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A planned afternoon discussion on the Trump administration’s impact on the Massachusetts transportation system, hosted by Transportation for Massachusetts, Transportation for America, and Smart Growth America, has been postponed.
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| Race, gender and political leadership |
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UMass Boston's McCormack Graduate School hosts a discussion on race, gender and political leadership, with participants including Boston City Councilors Michelle Wu and Ayanna Pressley; Ann Bookman of the Center for Women, Politics and Public Policy; and Paul Watanabe of the Institute for Asian American Studies, McCormack Hall, UMass Boston, Columbia Point, 6 p.m.
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| Grossman on ‘Nightside’ |
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Former Treasurer and former state Democratic Party chairman Steven Grossman is a scheduled guest on ‘NightSide with Dan Rea,’ WBZ NewsRadio 1030, 9 p.m.
| Today's News |
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| Be careful out there |
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As far as we can tell, the weekend storm that was expected to stretch well into this morning wasn’t quite as bad as anticipated, though coastal residents and others may have different opinions. Still, the roads are in rough shape and many employers, including the state of Massachusetts, have delayed the start of work this morning as a result of the weather. The Boston Globe and MassLive have lists of school districts that have cancelled classes today. |
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| Warren subtly boasts she wasn’t ‘silent’ on Sessions … |
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U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren told parishioners at the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Roxbury yesterday that senators were told not to talk about the civil rights record of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, reports the Globe’s Nicole Fleming. “No one got up to defend his record and what he has done in the years since,” Warren said. “All they said was, ‘Be silent, be silent, be silent.’” But Warren, as we all know now, wasn’t silent. Warren didn’t quite openly brag, but she sure teed upped the praise from parishioners, who obviously got her message.
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| … but Washington Post reporter says Warren all too silent with journalists |
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The Herald’s Hillary Chabot says that, for all of Elizabeth Warren’s high-profile bashing of President Trump, she remains “a scardy cat when it comes to media.” And Chabot backs up her claim with recent tweets from a Washington Post Congressional reporter, Paul Kane, who complains Warren is “an ‘access journalism’ senator. She only gives access to journalists who appear to be from her ideology. It’s bad. Bad.” He also tweeted: “Senator Obama was a remarkably engaging figure to entire Capitol press corps. It helped prepare him for 2008. EW does not take that path.” |
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| Move aside, Curt: Rep. Diehl eyeing run against Warren |
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State Rep. Geoff Diehl, a Whitman Republican and huge backer of Donald Trump, says he is “seriously considering” a run against U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, after being approached by national Republicans about challenging the liberal icon, reports the Herald’s Matt Stout. So if national Republicans are urging Diehl to run, that means they’re not exactly excited about former Red Sox hurler Curt Schilling taking on Warren? The conservative Curt is presumably still consulting his wife about possibly running.
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| Moving the problem: Environmentalists concede Baker plan may shift carbon emissions to neighboring states |
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From the Globe’s David Abel: “A Baker administration plan to cut harmful greenhouse gases could have the unintended consequence of boosting carbon emissions across the rest of New England, say some environmental advocates and representatives of the energy industry.” We expected power plant owners to complain. But the confirmation of their concerns by environmentalists comes as a bit of surprise, though they appear to disagree on the severity of the potential problem.
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| Privatization push reaches T’s core |
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This is big: T officials are poised to present a plan as soon as Monday to outsource maintenance of the agency’s buses and in-station customer service, moves that bring privatization to the T’s core operations for the first time and ones that could save $65 million annually while impacting as many as 600 union jobs, Matt Stout of the Herald reports.
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| Group sues Healey over blocking of initiative |
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A group of foreclosure activists—including a member of the Worcester City Council—has sued Attorney General Maura Healey over her decision to halt an initiative petition effort to repeal a 2015 law designed to make it easier to clear title issues in foreclosed properties, Brad Petrishen of the Telegram reports.
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| Credit-card transparency ends at House |
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WCVB’s Mike Beaudet teamed with journalism students at Northeastern University to review credit card payments by state agencies and found plenty of transparency and forthrightness from agencies such as the Mass. Cultural Council (which favors Davio’s for lunch, btw) and the Mass. Gaming Commission (where members go to Vegas a lot). But that transparency came to a screeching halt when it came to the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, which invoked its exception to the state’s public records laws and told Beaudet only that the more than $213,000 charged to its chamber card was spent on “legitimate business expenses."
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| Falchuk admits: ‘Third parties not the answer,’ reluctantly joins Dems |
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After his United Independent Party was effectively delisted last year, Evan Falchuk is now admitting “third parties are not the answer” and has reluctantly joined ranks with Dems to fight Donald Trump, though he’s not happy with the state of the Democratic Party today and is urging changes. Our question: Does this mean he’s not running against his arch-nemesis, Secretary of State Bill Galvin, a Democrat? The Globe's Nestor Ramos says Falchuck, a 2014 gubernatorial candidate, isn't saying whether he'll run for an office next year. |
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| True armchair analysts |
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Maybe former comedian and current U.S. Senator Al Franken, a Democrat, sparked the story when he recently said “a few” of his Republican colleagues have expressed concern about President Trump’s mental state. No matter where the idea came from, Stat’s Sharon Begley interviewed 10 psychiatrists and psychologists — some supporters of Trump, some not — about the president’s behavior and, with the usual disclaimers, generally concluded he’s a compulsive egomaniac of colossal proportions (our words). But surprise! Their findings sometimes fall along pro- and anti-Trump lines. Maybe it's time psychiatrists and psychologists start seriously studying the emotional and behavioral patterns that lead to hyper partisanship. It might do the nation a lot of good.
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