While most advocates for new transportation revenues to improve the condition of roads and bridges and deliver more reliable, affordable public transit were pleased to see progress, several said they had hoped the bill would have gone further.
Gov. Charlie Baker this morning highlighted steps aimed at improving the state’s public transportation, telling guests at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce breakfast that a few years from now, the transit system should be in far better shape than it is now.
Environmental, social and corporate governance topics have become key concerns for investors and donors, said John Traynor, the executive vice president and chief investment officer at People’s United Bank, a concern that he has recently seen gaining momentum.
A consensus is emerging: More revenue is needed to improve our infrastructure, but also should be designed to influence behavior with an overarching goal of getting cars off the road and increasing the use of public transit.
Massachusetts received a double batch of good news this week in the struggle against its transportation problems. But residents shouldn’t let that lull them into complacency.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh repeated his support for certain eviction protections and called on the commercial real estate industry to find a “balance between profit and [social] impact” in a speech before the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Tuesday.
Gov. Charlie Baker’s MBTA capital spending plan is encouraging, and I am pleased to see a greater sense of urgency around our public transit crisis from the administration. Now that these new initiatives are in play however, it is critical for the MBTA to transition quickly to execution mode and restore our confidence in its ability to deliver results.
Madison Park, the only comprehensive vocational school in Boston, is uniquely positioned to be a talent pipeline for employers around the region, according to a report published earlier this week by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
State government should approve a three-month delay in payroll taxes needed to fund the new paid family and medical leave program, according to a coalition of business, labor and social justice groups.
Frustrated with a recent series of announcements, Boston-area employers are growing impatient with the MBTA and demanding that it consider “bolder solutions,” including farming out capital spending oversight to a new entity.
Expanding road tolls across Massachusetts and to the state’s borders could be a way to generate new revenue to address growing transportation woes, Senate President Karen Spilka said Thursday.
Twenty-four chambers of commerce and industry lobby groups from around Massachusetts are joining forces to heed House Speaker Robert DeLeo’s call for a unified voice from the business community on transportation matters.
As Beacon Hill looks to tackle some of the transportation issues often blamed for congestion, traffic and unreliable service, House Speaker Robert DeLeo is pushing employers and business groups to “articulate the policies that it can unite behind.”
Organizations representing Massachusetts’ business community, including the banking industry, have come in for criticism from a new report on leadership diversity in the state from the Boston-based Eos Foundation.
Despite steady progress toward achieving most of its goals for improvement, the MBTA is lagging on several infrastructure- and customer-related benchmarks outlined two years ago in its strategic plan, according to the first in-depth review of that plan.
Paul Ayoub, a partner in the real estate department at the Boston-based law firm Nutter, has been named as the incoming chairman of the board of directors of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. His tenure begins July 1.
New reporting requirements for MassHealth and protections against out-of-network billing are among provisions of forthcoming House health care legislation, details Speaker Robert DeLeo sketched out for the first time Friday morning.
The Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce has launched the Pacesetters Initiative, a partnership of large and mid-sized GBCC member organizations committed to leveraging their collective purchasing power to create opportunities at scale for local enterprises owned by women and people of color.
Margulies Perruzzi Architects has completed a new office at 265 Franklin St. in Boston for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Legislation mandating accommodations for pregnant women on the job is expected to clear the House Ways and Means Committee Monday before surfacing for a vote of the full House on Wednesday.
