Over the next few days, legislators will cast votes on the transportation finance plan recently released by the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees. My hope is that the plan will evolve and expand before our final vote. I would like to see us add to the plan a stream of additional dedicated transportation revenue …
Continue reading “The Legislature’s Proposed Transportation Plan”
In 2009, the Registry of Motor Vehicles discontinued mail notices of pending driver’s license expiration. They replaced it with an online service which I encouraged people to sign up for. When I emailed advice of the new service it was widely reforwarded. If you took that advice, please be advised that the RMV has now …
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Over the next couple of weeks, the legislature will make preliminary decisions about the Governor’s transportation plans — deciding how much additional revenue to raise to close operating gaps and to fund additional borrowing. The governor has proposed to issue $13 billion in additional debt over the next 10 years to finance his 21st Century …
Continue reading “How much transportation investment can we afford?”
Last week, Governor Patrick filed legislation implementing his transportation investment program. Hearings will begin soon and it’s worth understanding how the vetting process will work. In January, the Governor filed his budget proposal, which is a proposed law, subject to the usual legislative hearing process. In addition, he rolled out his transportation vision document, called …
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It is time now to extend the statute of limitations, so that recovering adult victims of childhood sexual abuse have more time to bring civil lawsuits against their abusers.
