Former Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Richard Davey and a Florida transportation official have been tapped as finalists for next CEO of Massachusetts Port Authority.
Massport’s board of directors will hold a public meeting to review the potential selection of Davey or Eulois Checkley, CEO of the Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works, at a meeting to be scheduled next week.
Davey headed the Massachusetts Department of Transportation from 2011 to 2014 and has been president of New York City Transit, the nation’s largest public transportation agency, since 2022.
- Bedford Office Tax Deal: A Woburn defense contractor is seeking tax incentives to relocate its headquarters to a vacant 327,000-square-foot office campus in Bedford.
- Mariano Cool on Transfer Taxes: After saying he was open to considering a local-option tax on high-value property sales to fund affordable housing, House Speaker Ron Mariano said he doesn’t know if the policy is a solution to the state’s housing woes outside of high-cost communities.
- Inflation Report ‘Keeps Alive’ Rate Cuts: Led by lower food and auto prices, inflation in the United States cooled slightly last month after three elevated readings, likely offering a tentative sigh of relief for officials at the Federal Reserve and some borrowers.
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- Why did Millennials move to the suburbs during the pandemic? Research suggests their preferred urban amenities couldn’t compete with a lack of reasonably-priced and family-sized homes in cities.
- No newly constructed house is perfect. That’s why builders employ customer service teams to go back after customers move in and rectify whatever issues have popped up.
- Investing more in pre-apprenticeship programs and working with builders and contractors to hire more tradeswomen can help us meet the state’s requirements for workforce participation diversity.
