Charlie Baker

Governor Baker’s recent budgetary vetoes highlight another area where the Massachusetts Constitution and the federal Constitution differ.

The target audience for the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance poll on MBTA reform may have been political insiders or public outsiders. It's questionable how much either group took notice. 

Pure and simple, Mass Fiscal Alliance’s “poll” on MBTA reform is a fraud.

The conflict between Governor Charlie Baker and the legislature over MBTA reform is like a graduate class in political science.

So far Governor Charlie Baker has maintained cordial relations with the legislature. The senate’s rejection of his MBTA reform plan may mean it’s time to drop the gloves.

From the perspective of sharing funds with more people (and, especially, from the point of view of reducing inequality and helping people make it into the middle class) the choice of supporting the EITC over the Film Tax Credit is a lay-up. So what's going on? Why aren't working families who could benefit from the EITC more visible than Film Tax credit supporters? At least six explanations stand out:

The Globe’s Evan Horowitz thinks Charlie Baker’s idea that the MBTA should pay more of its own costs is “weird.” Here’s why Horowitz is wrong.

Just yesterday it seemed that my colleague Professor Cunningham, was ready to jump on the Charlie Baker bandwagon to help make the Republican Party competitive at the national level. 

Little did Mo know that the Governor was guilty of “traitorous behavior.”