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Bogged in bureaucracy: Lessons learned from Cape Wind
Read as PDF | By Sara Farnum. The recently completed approval process of the offshore wind farm Cape Wind was a 10-year bureaucratic nightmare. There must be a better way of vetting such proposals —...
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Bargaining for reform: Changing course in underperforming schools
Read as PDF | By Monika Bandyopadhyay. The Massachusetts legislature recently passed a bill providing superintendents unprecedented flexibility to change teacher collective bargaining agreements (CBAs)...
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How many guns are enough? A common sense approach toward reducing illegal guns
Read as PDF | By Matt Hartman. Massachusetts currently has no restriction on the number of guns that a person licensed to own a firearm can purchase, whether purchased from a licensed dealer or a...
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Why Massachusetts needs a Romeo and Juliet law
Read as PDF | By Amanda Eden. Massachusetts needs a statutory rape exception to protect minors from unjustified prosecution for consensual sexual acts with peers. Statutory rape exception statutes...
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The foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts: Will “foreclosure initiatives” keep...
Read as PDF | By Nicole Woodworth. In March of 2009 it was reported that a foreclosure was taking place every 13 seconds in the United States. As recently as November, Boston Globe reported “In Mass.,...
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Containing health care costs: Small steps in the right direction
Read as PDF | By Kristin Faucette. Attempting to mitigate rapidly escalating health care costs, the Massachusetts legislature recently enacted Chapter 288, “An Act to Promote Cost Containment,...
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A first step toward controlling health care costs: Medical loss ratios and...
Read as PDF | By Margarita Warren. Cost-containment may well prove to be the Achilles Heel of health care insurance reform. In Massachusetts, health care insurance premiums are rising at an...
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Why the Commonwealth’s affordable housing law, 40B, works
Read as PDF | By Arthur Hardy-Doubleday. Chapter 40B is the Commonwealth’s affordable housing law. Since 1969, it has helped create affordable housing by expediting the permitting process for...
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Massachusetts needs a better bottle law
Read as PDF | By Christina Fisher. Is the expanded bottle bill a means to protecting our environment or really another tax on consumers? The state Legislature has been debating this question for over...
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