When the Department of Revenue emphasized in early August that state tax collections in July exceeded benchmarks it did not mention that the monthly benchmark had been lowered.
Gov. Charlie Baker and Democratic legislative leaders spent the spring ripping up and rewriting budget plans because tax collections month after month fell short of their expectations. For budget-writing purposes, they marked down their estimate of fiscal 2017 tax collections by $630 million.
U.S. foreign policy isn't just hashed out in Washington, D.C. or New York City.
It's being shaped and made right here in the Boston area. Generals, diplomats, and other top government officials often take teaching posts in some of the estimated 50 local institutions of higher learning after their terms of public service are concluded, educating the next generation of foreign policy leaders. And some of the public intellectuals who have influenced U.S. foreign policy call the Hub home. In the below slides are some of the most important top foreign policy influencers in the Boston area.
