Pay and other compensation for Mount Ida College's president and other executives increased while its increasing debt load threatened to drive it out of business.
The board of trustees of the small college in Newton kept approving significant increases in salary for president Barry Brown and other leading officials during the last few years leading up to the college's decision to close and sell the campus to the University of Massachusetts, according to the Boston Business Journal.
Out-of-state drivers who don't live in New Hampshire or Maine don't have any consequences for not paying pay-by-mail tolls in Massachusetts for the Massachusetts Turnpike, Ted Williams Tunnel, and Tobin Bridge — which may explain why some aren't.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation reports some $15 million in uncollected tolls from out-of-state drivers since the state removed toll booths in 2016.
