
Madame Vice President, Look to Mass., Not California
Kamala Harris should look to former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Gov. Maura Healey and former Gov. Charlie Baker for tips on winning over swing states with a pro-growth agenda.
Kamala Harris should look to former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Gov. Maura Healey and former Gov. Charlie Baker for tips on winning over swing states with a pro-growth agenda.
From the laudable words in her inauguration speech last week, it seems like Gov. Maura Healey wants to surpass former Gov. Charlie Baker as our most pro-housing leader of the 21st century – no mean feat.
On the final evening of his eight years in office, Gov. Charlie Baker took his ceremonial final steps through the corridors and out to the Beacon Street sidewalk Wednesday. It’s called the “lone walk,” but he was hardly alone, accompanied by his lieutenant governor and their spouses, and cheered on by scores of well-wishers throughout the capitol.
Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday named developer Chanda Smart to serve on the MBTA Board, making one of his final appointments as he prepares to leave office on Thursday.
Outgoing Gov. Charlie Baker’s mark on the Department of Industrial Accidents is poised to carry on for more than six years, after the governor last week issued 10 nominations for quasi-judicial boards that hear worker’s compensation cases.
Gov. Charlie Baker is glad that his successor, Democrat Maura Healey, has signaled she plans to continue lobbying for some of the tax reforms that the Republican proposed, but he said in an interview that aired Sunday he never expected all of his ideas would become law.
Gov. Charlie Baker is having some extra fun giving out the state’s big tax refund checks this fall.
The second phase of the South Station air rights development will likely include life science space and multifamily housing, rather than a planned hotel.
About 3.6 million Massachusetts taxpayers are set to receive cash back this fall after state government hauled in taxes last year that surpassed the legal limit by nearly $3 billion, the Baker administration announced Friday.
With help from some large contractors, workers have completed close to 60 percent of planned maintenance and construction work about 18 days into the 30-day Orange Line shutdown, MBTA officials said Tuesday as Beacon Hill continues to sort through the aftermath of a stinging federal safety report.
There is no denying that Gov. Charlie Baker made progress on untying the gordian knot of our housing problems. But it’s looking like he didn’t go far enough.
Several elected Democrats took aim at Gov. Charlie Baker on Wednesday after a scathing federal report was released documenting the MBTA’s safety deficiencies, pinning the blame on the outgoing Republican or his deputies ahead of corner-office turnover in January.
Gov. Charlie Baker pledged to use his remaining time in office to put the long-discussed East-West Rail expansion project in position to benefit from the new federal infrastructure law, despite a partial setback on Beacon Hill.
Gov. Charlie Baker “would want to try to be helpful” to the city of Boston as its leaders seek state approval to restrict fossil fuels in new buildings and major renovations, even though he continues to be worried about causing increases to housing construction costs.
One day from his deadline to act, with his proposed changes to the bill already adopted or rejected and his departure from office nearing, Baker is weighing his legacy.
While Boston’s mayor projects a month-long Orange Line and partial Green Line shutdown will unleash “chaos,” Gov. Charlie Baker said Tuesday he feels confident that recent subway closures have gone more or less smoothly.
Gov. Charlie Baker is asking state legislators to exempt multifamily housing developments from a proposed 10-town natural gas ban pilot program aimed at gathering data on how to shrink the real estate industry’s carbon footprint.
Signing his eighth and final budget as the state’s chief executive, Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday agreed to a major increase in state spending and asked legislators to tweak an order a study of no-fault evictions and an expansion of the MBTA’s board.
On the same day that one head of the legislature’s Transportation Committee said decision-makers have no choice but to “do something dramatic” to fix the MBTA, Gov. Charlie Baker defended the transit agency he oversees by arguing that, for most riders, it’s really not that bad.
Riders are once again able to traverse downtown Boston on the MBTA’s Green and Orange lines after the agency’s engineers on Sunday evening declared tunnels safe for subway travel, capping off days of upheaval for the already-troubled agency.