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STATE HOUSE — Dozens of members of Congress have asked U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew for an investigation into the Chinese railcar company building Red and Orange line subway cars for the MBTA. The China Railroad Rolling Stock Corporation, or CRRC, has used subsidized financing from the Chinese government to
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STATE HOUSE — A quilt-work of penalties for parking in bike lanes would be replaced with a blanket statewide ticket of up to $100 under a bill that passed the House on Monday. The bill (H 3072) filed by Rep. David Rogers, a Cambridge Democrat, would bar drivers from parking or
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STATE HOUSE — Forty-three miles and four days after they set out on a march from Medway, hundreds of activists filled the State House Monday morning, chanting, "Stop the pipeline or the people will." The "People Over Pipelines" march took the demonstrators through communities including Norfolk, Walpole,
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STATE HOUSE — Opponents of the transgender public accommodations bill that Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law just over a week ago announced Monday they have launched a referendum initiative to repeal the law in 2018. Led by the Massachusetts Family Institute, which largely organized the opposition to the bill, 21
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CLEVELAND — A last ditch effort effort by anti-Trump delegates to derail the nomination of the New York businessman was downplayed by his Massachusetts campaign chair, but underscored the strange and fractious nature of this convention. After what Massachusetts Republican National Committeeman Ron Kaufman described Monday morning as a week of
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CLEVELAND — As the curtain rose on the Republican National Convention Monday, enthusiasm among Massachusetts Republicans for presumptive nominee Donald Trump was tempered by lingering doubts about the candidate among some representing the state in Cleveland. While most of the 42 delegates representing the state have backed Trump from the beginning
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Around the one-year anniversary of the MBTA's Fiscal and Management Control Board, Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack noted the enduring need to break out of the "time warp" of using outdated processes at the transit agency. "Culture change remains a challenge," Pollack said at the
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Gov. Charlie Baker aired his thoughts Sunday on balancing the state budget, racial divisions, police body cams, the performance of the MBTA, and the role of hydropower in the state's energy mix. Baker was the guest on "On the Record," the Sunday morning political program hosted