Gov. Charlie Baker could use his temporary power to privatize bus maintenance at the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and take other steps to save as much as $122 million a year, according to the Pioneer Institute, whose advocacy for such measures has drawn the ire of public unions and did so again this week.
Even as the Boston-based nonprofit research organization – which was once led by Baker – was putting out its latest T examination, members of the Boston Carmen's Union Local 589 picketed its downtown offices Wednesday morning.
Broadcast live by CNN and attended by hundreds drawn by Donald Trump, Ernie Boch Jr.'s Summer Bash caught the eye of nearly everyone in and around Boston. At $100 a head, it surely raised tens of thousands of dollars. But for whom?
At the Aug. 28 event, Trump insisted the cash wasn't going toward his presidential campaign.
